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

2. What does Jason recall Homer saying about this leg of the journey?
(a) He did not mention this leg to Jason.
(b) Novices usually fail to get over the water.
(c) Let the boat do your work.
(d) This is the easiest part of the journey.

3. How does Jason eat as he heads towards Chilkoot?
(a) He carries his food with him.
(b) People along the trail invite him to eat.
(c) He hunts small game.
(d) He fishes.

4. What did a man receive that was fake that Jason notices?
(a) A false telegram.
(b) A bridle for his horse.
(c) Instructions on how to pan for gold.
(d) A fake map.

5. Where do three sailors dump Jason?
(a) In the ocean.
(b) On a beach.
(c) At the next town.
(d) On a coral reef.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who dropped out of Jack's group?

2. What did Jason promise when he left his hometown?

3. What does the younger man in the rail car recite?

4. What does Jason name his dog?

5. Who saves Jason after he passes out on the trail?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jason get off the beach where the sailors dumped him?

2. What does Jason find out when he arrives in Bennett and what does he wonder about as far as what to do?

3. Upon what ship is Jason stowed away on, what does he hear and what can he not know because of the noise?

4. How does Jason get a job in Skagway?

5. When Jason comes back to Skagway, what are people complaining about, who is head of law enforcement and who is working with him?

6. How does Jason get his dog, King, and what happens to the previous owner?

7. What does Jason know about his brothers?

8. What does Jason learn at Mrs. Beal's boarding house that stuns him?

9. What does the person in question #21 tell Jason and what does he offer Jason? How does Jason feel about the offer?

10. What does Jason use his earnings for and why does he end up collapsed on the trail?

(see the answer keys)

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