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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do all mushers get if they finish the race?
(a) A "key" to Nome.
(b) A trophy.
(c) A brass buckle.
(d) A gourmet dinner.

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

4. Why does Gary stop before reaching Unalakleet?
(a) He is famished.
(b) He sees a campfire.
(c) The dogs need to be snacked.
(d) The dogs are whining.

5. What does Gary do when he hears his diagnosis in the last chapter?
(a) He tells the doctor he must be wrong.
(b) He asks to see his family.
(c) He tells the doctor how it all started.
(d) He cries.

6. What type of terrain do the teams encounter between Shaktolik and Koyuk?
(a) Steep.
(b) Icy.
(c) Hilly.
(d) Snowy.

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

8. Where is the other musher in The Burn?
(a) In a river.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) On a ridge.
(d) Lying on the ground.

9. How cold do the natives say it gets in The Yukon?
(a) Cold enough to freeze your nose hairs.
(b) Cold enough to spit and have it bounce.
(c) Cold enough that your eyes freeze shut.
(d) Cold enough that you can't piss.

10. Nikolai is about what temperature in degrees Fahrenheit?
(a) Zero.
(b) Fifty below zero.
(c) Thirty-two.
(d) Twenty below zero.

11. What does Gary say to the other musher in Dalzell Gorge?
(a) "I'm thinking about quitting."
(b) "Where am I?"
(c) "I've got them."
(d) "Tough race, isn't it?"

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

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

14. How does the doctor in "An End" look when Gary first sees him?
(a) He is laughing.
(b) He is crying.
(c) He is smiling.
(d) He is frowning.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Along the Yukon River, what does Gary estimate the temperature to be in degrees Fahrenheit?

2. What is the first thing the doctor in "An End" says to Gary?

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

4. How does Gary describe the terrain of The Interior?

5. Where is Don's Cabin?

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