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

2. What is the setting at the beginning of the book?
(a) In the northern woods of Minnesota.
(b) In the Colorado mountains.
(c) Near the Alaska Range.
(d) On the Iditarod trail.

3. What does the command "Haw" mean?
(a) Left.
(b) Go.
(c) Right.
(d) Stop.

4. What do the caribou do when Gary and his team run close to them outside Shageluk?
(a) Watch them with curiosity.
(b) Try to bite the dogs.
(c) Try to get the food from the sled.
(d) Attack Gary.

5. Why doesn't Gary stop at Kaltag?
(a) He is anxious to finish the race.
(b) He isn't tired.
(c) There aren't any restaurants.
(d) The drunk villagers are bothering him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Gary shoot the beaver in "Beginnings" after he aims his gun?

2. Out of seventy teams, where is Gary and his team running when they reach Nikolai?

3. Gary writes that dogs will die before they lose what?

4. What does Gary NOT do when he reaches the Finger Lake checkpoint?

5. Why do the dogs run towards the beaver on the frozen lake while Gary is training for his first race?

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