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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Chris McCandless attended school and graduated with honors?

2. What event happened in April 1992 that prompted the writing of Into The Wild?

3. How long did Chris survive in that hostile environment?

4. Why did Christ steal a bicycle in Northern California?

5. In October of 1990, National Park Ranger, what did Bud Walsh discover?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Krakauer compare and contrast Chris and his father?

2. What happened to Chris's plan to paddle a canoe from Arizona to the Gulf of California?

3. What did Chris do in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park?

4. How did Wayne Westerberg come to notify the police?

5. Why was there a break in Chris's journal entries after he left Las Vegas in 1991?

6. Why does Krakauer include the story of Everett Ruess in Chapter 9?

7. What was the relationship Chris developed with the Westerberg family?

8. Discuss the difference between Chris's treatment of his parents and the way he treated strangers.

9. How was Westerberg able to help the police with their further investigation?

10. Describe the evidence at the opening of Chapter 1 that indicates Chris might have had a premonition about his death.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Gather information about Jack London. Write about how Chris admired his description of survival in the Alaskan wilderness but did not recognize it as fiction written by a man who never did the things included in his book, CALL OF THE WILD.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay expressing your opinion of Chris McCandless. Answer whether he was mentally stable, how he did or did not use people, whether he might have survived except for some bad luck, and how well he was prepared to survive alone.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about Walt and Billie as examples of people working hard to fulfill the American dream. Explain whether you think their ambition might have affected their children. Conclude with your opinion about making money and making a life.

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