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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 information does Gallien provide the police?
(a) That Alex was coughing bad when he dropped him off.
(b) That Alex had mentioned a friend named Ron in California.
(c) That the young man had called himself Alex and had come from South Dakota.
(d) That Alex's real name was Chris McCandless.

2. What did Chris do the summer after his sophomore year in college?
(a) He took a cross country hike.
(b) He returned to Annandale and wrote a flawless software program.
(c) He worked in a garage to make money to buy his Datsun.
(d) He spent the entire summer with his sister, Carine.

3. 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) It must have been made when Chris got too thin for his jeans.
(c) Chris had made it to keep himself busy.
(d) Chris probably didn't want to ruin the leather belt he had made at Ron Franz's house.

4. What did the bones outside the bus reveal?
(a) That the animal Chris killed had been eaten by vultures.
(b) What Chris thought was a moose was actually caribou.
(c) That Chris had been unable to kill edible animals.
(d) That the bus had been attacked by wolves.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Billie leave in the bus?

2. What is prominently displayed in Carine McCandless's home?

3. When did Jon Krakauer interview Walt McCandless?

4. What similarity is there between Jon's relationship with his father and Chris's relationship with Walt?

5. What evidence does Krakauer find that suggests Chris was ready to re-enter society?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does swainsonine become lethal in the body?

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

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

6. Explain Jim Gillien's difficulty in contacting the Alaska police.

7. What discovery about himself did Krakauer make after conquering Devil's Thumb?

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

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

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

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