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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. 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 realizes he was selfish, stubborn, and as difficult for his father to deal with as his father's behavior had been for him.
(c) Krakauer learned that he had improved himself by not becoming like his father.
(d) Krakauer learned that his father was always shallow and always would be.

2. What is prominently displayed in Carine McCandless's home?
(a) A scrapbook of news clippings about Chris.
(b) A painting she did of her brother, Chris.
(c) All of Chris's track trophies.
(d) Two photographs of her brother, Chris.

3. A year after Chris's death, what did Krakauer observe on the banks of the Teklanika River where Chris had been unable to cross?
(a) The river was overflowing its banks.
(b) The ice was breaking up and the footing was dangerous.
(c) There are dangerous rocks just under the surface of the water.
(d) The river is indeed a wide, churning flow of water.

4. What did Billie leave in the bus?
(a) A set of steel plates and cups.
(b) Three heavy blankets.
(c) A suitcase filled with emergency food supplies.
(d) A down coat and some matches.

5. What is significant about August 5?
(a) It was the day he killed the caribou.
(b) It was the day the moose hunters found his body.
(c) It was Chris's 100th day in the wilderness.
(d) It was Chris's birthday.

Short Answer Questions

1. What important work does Walt McCandless do?

2. What did Billie realize as she get to the bus?

3. What happened 10 months after Chris's death?

4. What did Billie find in the bus?

5. When Krakauer reached an impassable place on the mountain, what did he do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Carine and her parents regret after the fact of Chris's death?

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

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

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

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

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

7. To show his kindred spirit with Chris, what does Krakauer write about in Chapter 14?

8. What was Chris's problem with his parents monetary success?

9. What is so unusual about Chris's never seeing another human being while he was camped at the bus?

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

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