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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Gary thinking about when he first sees the lights of Nome?
(a) The possibility that he will lose his toes to frostbite.
(b) How he wants to keep going past Nome.
(c) His wife and son.
(d) The old man who had asked him to live on the coast.

2. How many miles is The Burn?
(a) Fifty-three.
(b) One hundred seventeen.
(c) Thirty-seven.
(d) Ninety-two.

3. How far is it from Koyuk to Nome?
(a) Seventy-five miles.
(b) Fifty miles.
(c) Two hundred miles.
(d) One hundred fifty miles.

4. Why won't the cafe cook take Gary's money?
(a) Because Gary is running the Iditarod.
(b) Because Gary forgets to bring his money.
(c) Because he couldn't cook what Gary wanted.
(d) Because he can't make change for Gary's money.

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

6. What happens when Gary steps off his sled while in the basin?
(a) He realizes he has been hallucinating.
(b) He realizes it is nighttime.
(c) A moose appears.
(d) A man's head appears.

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

8. How does Cookie run on the frozen stream bed?
(a) She slides on her belly most of the time.
(b) She plays "crack the whip".
(c) She has a hard time getting her footing.
(d) She won't go onto the frozen stream bed.

9. In the last chapter, where is Gary when he first sees the doctor?
(a) In a chair.
(b) On an exam table.
(c) Standing in the doorway.
(d) In a bed.

10. How many teams stop at Don's Cabin, including Gary's team?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

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

12. Which of these mountains must be crossed between Koyuk and Nome?
(a) Nome.
(b) Denali.
(c) McKinley.
(d) Topcok.

13. What does a musher from England say about Happy Canyon?
(a) It's like falling.
(b) It's the worst part of the race.
(c) It's like plummeting.
(d) It's not so bad.

14. To what does Gary compare the intensity of his hunger in Nikolai?
(a) Having bruised ribs.
(b) Being in love.
(c) Not sleeping for a week.
(d) Being freezing cold.

15. Out of seventy teams, where is Gary and his team running when they reach Nikolai?
(a) In the sixties.
(b) In the forties
(c) In the twenties.
(d) In the thirties.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Gary doing when he almost runs into another sled and team outside Shageluk?

2. What is the distance between Shaktolik and Koyuk?

3. How long is the run up the Yukon River?

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

5. Nikolai is about what temperature in degrees Fahrenheit?

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