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

2. What similarity is there between Jon's relationship with his father and Chris's relationship with Walt?
(a) Both fathers were weak willed and seldom gave their children advice.
(b) Secrets were revealed and both young men resented the hypocracy.
(c) Both fathers turned out to be bigamists.
(d) Both fathers were old and out of touch.

3. 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.

4. What characteristic of his father's does Krakauer mention as a flaw?
(a) That his father worked too many jobs.
(b) That his father never climbed a mountain.
(c) That his father could never admit to being wrong.
(d) That his father was too kind to everyone.

5. 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 is indeed a wide, churning flow of water.
(b) The river was overflowing its banks.
(c) There are dangerous rocks just under the surface of the water.
(d) The ice was breaking up and the footing was dangerous.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In light of his own experiences, what does Krakauer think of Chris's tactics?

3. Chris's parents had moved, but his step brother was contacted. After he positively identified Chris, what did he do?

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

5. What did Billie leave in the bus?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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