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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 trait did sports reveal in Chris?
(a) He was not interested in competition.
(b) He did not take defeat well.
(c) He wanted other people to win.
(d) He was lazy about training.

2. What affected the eating habits of Chris's family?
(a) Thinking about how they found Chris's body.
(b) Thinking more about the homeless.
(c) Learning that he starved to death.
(d) Not being able to eat rice.

3. After Chris left home, why didnn't Carine get upset when he won't tell her where he was?
(a) She didn't want to know because she didn't care.
(b) She was glad he was gone so she could have his room.
(c) She knew Chris was happy and thought he would come home some day.
(d) She thought their father would try to bring him home if he knew.

4. What is significant about the cloth belt Krakauer founds in the bus?
(a) He seemd to have made it to tie up his paperback books.
(b) Chris probably didn't want to ruin the leather belt he had made at Ron Franz's house.
(c) It must have been made when Chris got too thin for his jeans.
(d) Chris had made it to keep himself busy.

5. What is so poignant about the final photograph Chris took of himself holding his good-bye note?
(a) The end of his good-bye note says he will see everyone in a month.
(b) It is blurry because he was too weak to hold the camera steady.
(c) He doesn't realize that he is holding the note upside down.
(d) His emaciated frame contrasts with the smile on his face.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Krakauer interpret the evidence he gathered about Chris?

2. How was Westerberg able to help the police?

3. What did Krakauer do similar to what Chris did when he needed to go to the village of Petersberg?

4. What shows Chris's attitude toward injustices that began when he was in college?

5. What gift did Walt give Billie after the birth of Chris?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of work made Walt McCandless such a success?

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

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

4. How does swainsonine become lethal in the body?

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

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

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

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

9. Carine knew that Chris was leaving but she didn't know where he was going. Why?

10. As Krakauer, visiting the site, stood on the banks of the raging Teklanika River, what advantage did he have that Chris did not have?

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