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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jason feel about Jack's offer?
(a) He is distrusting.
(b) Jason is shocked.
(c) Jason is curious.
(d) He is indifferent.

2. Who does Jason first see when he wakes after being sick?
(a) Frank Barker.
(b) Jamie Dunavant.
(c) Jack London.
(d) Lucy Gant.

3. What concerns Jason besides the upcoming bad weather?
(a) Jason thinks he is too young.
(b) Not having a good map.
(c) Not knowing how to pan for gold.
(d) His lack of funds.

4. For what does a man want to hire Jason?
(a) To handle his horses.
(b) To help carry his canoe.
(c) To hunt with him to add more food to his boat.
(d) To rescue him if his canoe turns over.

5. What worries people who are on the boat?
(a) Passing through customs.
(b) Getting past the waterfall.
(c) Being attacked by a grizzly bear.
(d) Getting over the rapids.

6. How heavy is the outfit?
(a) Seven hundred pounds.
(b) 1200 pounds.
(c) Four hundred pounds.
(d) 500 pounds.

7. What is the name of the first lake Jason has to cross?
(a) Berryman's Turn.
(b) Pashaw.
(c) Lindeman.
(d) Crystal Lake.

8. What does the older man tell Jason about from his past?
(a) The gold rush of 49.
(b) Traveling to all of the states of America.
(c) Being married with children.
(d) Working in the coal mines.

9. How does Jason buy food and warming clothing?
(a) With his wages from his short time job.
(b) He uses the money his brothers left him.
(c) He works at the general store.
(d) He trades his extra pair of boots.

10. How long does it take Jason to get home from New York?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Seven days.
(c) Eight days.
(d) A month.

11. How do Jack and Jason act when they see each other again?
(a) Like they are long lost friends.
(b) Polite.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Competitive.

12. Where are Jason and his dog when they make it to the top of the answer to question #54?
(a) Victoria.
(b) Canada.
(c) Oregon.
(d) Washington State.

13. How does Jason finally get the means to continue his journey?
(a) Being taken on a boat as crew.
(b) Wages from horse handling.
(c) Finding a canoe with a small hole in it.
(d) Buys a canoe.

14. Where does Jason go in Chapter 13?
(a) Back to Skagway.
(b) To the spot where the outfit was dropped off.
(c) No where.
(d) With Jack.

15. How many boats are leaving the shore each day?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Sixty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jason recall Homer saying about this leg of the journey?

2. What is waiting for Jason at his brothers' home?

3. How does Jason eat as he heads towards Chilkoot?

4. What did Homer sell to come to the gold fields?

5. What does Jason wonder when he arrives at Lake Bennett?

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