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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Race: The Yukon; Unalakleet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What checkpoint is right after the Finger Lake checkpoint?
(a) Rainy Pass Lodge.
(b) The Burn Lodge.
(c) Happy Canyon Lodge.
(d) Don's Cabin.

2. How many Iditarod teams receive prize money?
(a) The first twenty.
(b) First, second, and third.
(c) All teams that cross the finish line.
(d) The first ten.

3. How cold do the natives say it gets in The Yukon?
(a) Cold enough that you can't piss.
(b) Cold enough that your eyes freeze shut.
(c) Cold enough to freeze your nose hairs.
(d) Cold enough to spit and have it bounce.

4. What does Devil do when Gary says, "Hi"?
(a) He wags his tail.
(b) He urinates.
(c) He growls at Gary.
(d) He bites Gary.

5. Why does it seem like Rainy Pass should be difficult to run?
(a) It is sheer ice.
(b) The snow is so deep.
(c) The teams have to cross the Alaska Range.
(d) The wind is so strong.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Cookie run on the frozen stream bed?

2. What does the old man in Unalakleet offer Gary?

3. In "First Snow", how much snow is on the ground?

4. What does Ruth think will be Gary's biggest problem in the race?

5. What does one of the mushers say when Gary and his team are on the frozen river in Happy Canyon?

(see the answer key)

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