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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Race: Dalzell Gorge and the Burn.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What becomes Gary's mantra?
(a) It's not about winning, it's about how you play the game.
(b) Be true to yourself and to your dogs.
(c) Slow and steady wins the race.
(d) If one person can do it, another person can do it.

2. How long is the trail that the team runs in "First Snow"?
(a) About twenty miles.
(b) About seventy miles.
(c) About ten miles.
(d) About one hundred miles.

3. What does Gary NOT hallucinate in The Burn?
(a) A moose attack.
(b) His cabin in Minnesota.
(c) A thin man with glasses.
(d) A nude woman.

4. What is the major challenge in The Burn?
(a) Deep snow.
(b) The gorge.
(c) The river.
(d) Fallen trees.

5. What are the buffalo doing in The Burn?
(a) Fighting.
(b) Trying to cross the river.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Playing.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how long does Gary and his team stop at the Finger Lake checkpoint?

2. What becomes strikingly clear when Gary gets to Alaska?

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

4. Where is Rainy Pass Lodge?

5. According to Gary, what is "the be-all and end-all of running dogs on the Iditarod"?

(see the answer key)

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