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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 14-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jason think while he is walking?
(a) His mother will kill him.
(b) His father would be proud of him.
(c) His brothers are waiting for him.
(d) He is stronger than Jack.

2. What did Jason promise when he left his hometown?
(a) He would stay away at least a year.
(b) He will be bringing a wife when he returns.
(c) He would not return until he is rich.
(d) He would never return.

3. What does Jack say about seeing Jason again?
(a) He thought Jason was too young to be friends.
(b) He figured Jason had given up.
(c) He wish he had known they were going to meet again.
(d) He thought Jason might be dead.

4. To what does Jason compare himself as he walks?
(a) A bumblebee.
(b) A salmon swimming up stream.
(c) His father.
(d) An ant.

5. What does Jason want to learn from the older man?
(a) What to do if caught hopping rail cars.
(b) How to make a wife happy.
(c) What it takes to get to Klondike.
(d) What is the best warm states in America.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jason all of a sudden understand the urgency to move forward?

2. What does Frank Barker want Jason to do?

3. How long has Jason been in New York at the beginning of the book?

4. Why are many of the people Jason meets heading back to Skagway going there?

5. What is the name of the first lake Jason has to cross?

(see the answer key)

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