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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Gallien notice about Chris's boots?
(a) They were designed for mountain climbing.
(b) They were old and ripped out at the seams.
(c) They were lightweight and not waterproof.
(d) They were too large for his feet.

2. In what way did Chris exhibit a double standard about money?
(a) He refused to take money for the work he did, but accepted goods that probably cost as much.
(b) He now wanted to collect all the money he could to outfit himself for Alaska.
(c) He refused to let Jan drive him to pick up his last check at McDonald's.
(d) He borrowed money that he knew he could never repay.

3. Chris confided to Gail Borah that he was close to one member of his family. Who is that?
(a) His gramdmother.
(b) His cousin, Jason.
(c) His uncle, Milton.
(d) His sister, Carine.

4. What did Chris do after Westerberg was jailed?
(a) He kept himself hidden because the police might have been looking for him.
(b) He hitchhiked to Needles, California, then walked through the desert to Topock, Arizona.
(c) He stayed with Westerberg's family until he got out.
(d) He headed north to Alaska.

5. What surprising thing about Chris does Westerberg remember about him?
(a) That he knew what he was doing was unfair to his parents.
(b) That he would eventually end up in a monastery in Tibet.
(c) That he had expressed a desire to marry and have a family some day.
(d) That he secretly had a sexual fantasy about his sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Chris meet on a trip into Salton City to get some supplies?

2. In what area do people who knew Chris agree that he was inexperienced?

3. What message did Chris leave taped to the door of the bus?

4. What did Butch Killian want to do when he arrived on the bus scene where Chris had died?

5. What did Walt and Billie McCandless discover when they drive to Chris's apartment in Atlanta?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Wayne Westerberg come to notify the police?

2. How are letters written by Ruess and Chris another point of similarity in their stories?

3. Why was there a break in Chris's journal entries after he left Las Vegas in 1991?

4. Jon Krakauer wrote an article about Chris McCandless for OUTSIDE magazine in January of 1993. Explain why Krakauer was then compelled to write the book, Into The Wild

5. Talk about the indication that Chris was planning for the Alaska trip to be his last adventure.

6. Describe the evidence at the opening of Chapter 1 that indicates Chris might have had a premonition about his death.

7. What is clear about the author's intentions in writing this book?

8. How was Westerberg able to help the police with their further investigation?

9. Discuss Chris's abandonment of his beloved Datsun.

10. How does Krakauer rebut the idea that Chris was a reckless idiot, a wacko, a narcissist?

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