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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 does Krakauer think actually killed Chris?
(a) Tainted canned goods he found in the bus.
(b) Choking on rabbit bones.
(c) Poisonous leaves he was reduced to eating.
(d) The wild potato seeds he was eating.

2. What two requests did Stuckey make of Alex as they parted company?
(a) Change his mind and go back to the Westerbergs.
(b) Wait until spring and work to get money for better boots.
(c) Send him photos of his adventure and notify the forrest service where he will be.
(d) Write him a letter when he returns and call his parents before he goes into the wilderness.

3. Chris's parents had moved, but his step brother was contacted. After he positively identified Chris, what did he do?
(a) Contacted Gillien to get more information.
(b) Drove to Maryland to inform Chris's parents.
(c) Told his wife that he always knew Chris would end that way.
(d) Flew to Alaska to claim the body.

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

5. What did Krakauer do similar to what Chris did when he needed to go to the village of Petersberg?
(a) He sent postcards to friends.
(b) He burned his money.
(c) He abandoned his car.
(d) He bought a big bag of rice.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of business do Carine and her husband operate?

3. What did the bones outside the bus reveal?

4. What sad discovery does Krakauer make just a quarter mile down stream on the river?

5. Who gave Krakauer dinner and a place to sleep in Petersberg?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does swainsonine become lethal in the body?

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

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

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

6. How did Chris manage the last leg of his trip into Fairbanks?

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

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

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

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

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