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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Race: Norton Sound; Nome.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long is the run up the Yukon River?
(a) Three hundred miles.
(b) Two hundred fifty miles.
(c) Two hundred miles.
(d) Four hundred miles.

2. What happens to Gary's food at Finger Lake?
(a) He gives it to his dogs.
(b) It is stolen.
(c) It is rotten and must be thrown away.
(d) It mixes with the dogs' food.

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

4. According to Gary, what is "that which is cold"?
(a) The Yukon River.
(b) Alaska.
(c) The Iditarod.
(d) The Alaska Range.

5. Who is the Doughnut man?
(a) A musher who gave doughnuts to the other mushers.
(b) A musher who ate two dozen doughnuts in one sitting.
(c) A checker who passes out doughnuts at all the rest stops.
(d) A musher who is so fat he looks like a doughnut hole.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Norton Sound located?

2. How many other mushers are in the house in Shaktolik?

3. How many dogs does Gary take to Alaska?

4. About how many dogs are in downtown Anchorage for the start of the race?

5. What does Devil do to another dog in Dalzell Gorge?

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