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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. How far did Chris travel on the Stampede Trail before he located the abandoned bus?
(a) Ten miles.
(b) Forty miles.
(c) A mile and a half.
(d) Twenty miles.

2. What shows Chris's attitude toward injustices that began when he was in college?
(a) He began bringing homeless people to his dorm room.
(b) He took classes about world hunger, poverty, wealth distribution and racism.
(c) He refused a new car because there were so many people who did not have one.
(d) He started a soup kitchen in Annandale.

3. Two decades later, what has Krakauer learned about his relationship with his father?
(a) Krakauer learned that he had been right to defy his father.
(b) Krakauer learned that his father was always shallow and always would be.
(c) Krakauer realizes he was selfish, stubborn, and as difficult for his father to deal with as his father's behavior had been for him.
(d) Krakauer learned that he had improved himself by not becoming like his father.

4. When did Jon Krakauer interview Walt McCandless?
(a) On what would have been Chris's birthday.
(b) Never. He would not speak with Krakauer.
(c) Seven weeks after Chris's body was recovered.
(d) A year after Chris died.

5. What emotional experience disturbed Chris while he is staying in the bus?
(a) Watching an otter get captured by an eagle.
(b) Bad dreams that hinted of his death.
(c) Thinking about his sister.
(d) Killing a moose and being unable to preserve the meat.

Short Answer Questions

1. A year after Chris's death, what did Krakauer observe on the banks of the Teklanika River where Chris had been unable to cross?

2. What important work does Walt McCandless do?

3. What happened to Billie in July of 1992?

4. Why does Krakauer relate his own experiences in Chapter 14?

5. At the time of publication of the notice of Chris's death, what problem did the police have?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Krakauer's Alaska experience different from Chris's?

2. How does swainsonine become lethal in the body?

3. What discovery did Chris make the summer after his freshman year in college that drove a deeper wedge between him and his father?

4. Describe why the McCandlesses could not take the exact trek to the bus that Chris had taken.

5. What was the irony Krakauer thought about as he kept attempting to climb Devil's Thumb?

6. What items did Billie and Walt McCandless leave behind in the bus?

7. Who was Sam McCandless, and why was he the one to notify Chris's parents?

8. In Chris's journal, what did he think was happening to him?

9. What defense does Krakauer make of Chris's ability to survive in the wild?

10. What indicates to Krakauer that there was a very close relationship between Carine and Chris?

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