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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does one of the mushers say when Gary and his team are on the frozen river in Happy Canyon?
(a) "Your head is bleeding."
(b) "I didn't think you were going to make it."
(c) "You're going to get yourself killed."
(d) "I'm going to do it that way next year."

3. At the end of the book, who does the doctor see right before he sees Gary?
(a) Gary's son.
(b) Gary's wife.
(c) A child.
(d) A gunshot victim.

4. What test does Gary NOT have in the last chapter of the book?
(a) Treadmill.
(b) Dilation.
(c) Cardiogram.
(d) Angiogram.

5. Gary writes that dogs will die before they lose what?
(a) The sled.
(b) Love.
(c) Their musher.
(d) Happiness.

6. What mountain is sometimes called the "American Everest"?
(a) Mt. Yukon.
(b) Mt. Denali.
(c) Mt. Dalzell.
(d) Mt. Alaska.

7. What does the old man in Unalakleet offer Gary?
(a) A warm fire.
(b) A bowl of moose chili.
(c) A place for him and his family after the race.
(d) His bed for the night.

8. Where is Rainy Pass Lodge?
(a) On a mountain peak.
(b) At the summit of Rainy Pass.
(c) In a mountain valley.
(d) In a depression.

9. In "An End", what is the doctor wearing?
(a) A white lab coat.
(b) Scrubs.
(c) A suit and tie.
(d) A smock with Disney animals.

10. What does Devil do to another dog in Dalzell Gorge?
(a) Bite his ear off.
(b) Bite his toe off.
(c) Claw a hole in his side.
(d) Scratch his eye out.

11. What is the distance between Iditarod and Shageluk?
(a) Two hundred miles.
(b) One hundred fifty miles.
(c) One hundred miles.
(d) Fifty miles.

12. Which of these things happens between "Nome" and "An End"?
(a) Gary runs in a second Iditarod race.
(b) Gary moves to Unalakleet.
(c) Gary becomes a dog breeder.
(d) Gary returns to trapping and hunting.

13. Where is Shageluk?
(a) Near the Yukon River.
(b) At Norton Sound.
(c) In the mountains.
(d) On the coast of the Bering Sea.

14. What is the native man doing in Koyuk?
(a) Handing out moose chili.
(b) Offering shelter.
(c) Reading a book.
(d) Ranting about the mushers.

15. What is Gary's diagnosis at the end of the book?
(a) Coronary heart disease.
(b) Multiple Sclerosis.
(c) AIDS.
(d) Old age.

Short Answer Questions

1. Outside Shageluk, where is the musher who belongs to the abandoned sled?

2. Why does it seem like Rainy Pass should be difficult to run?

3. What does the old man in Unalakleet say to Gary?

4. Why doesn't Gary stop at Kaltag?

5. Why does Gary stop right after leaving Ophir?

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