2. When does "An End" take place?
(a) Right after "Nome."
(b) After Gary wins a dog race.
(c) Between the events in "Nome" and "Prelude."
(d) After the events in "Prelude."

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

4. Why does it seem like Rainy Pass should be difficult to run?
(a) The snow is so deep.
(b) The teams have to cross the Alaska Range.
(c) The wind is so strong.
(d) It is sheer ice.

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

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

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

8. What does Gary NOT think when the doctor gives him his diagnosis in "An End"?
(a) "But I haven't climbed Mt. Everest yet."
(b) "But I haven't learned how to release the bowstring."
(c) "But I've just become successful."
(d) "But my son hasn't graduated from college yet."

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

10. In "An End", where is Gary's bandage?
(a) On his chest.
(b) On his leg.
(c) On his finger.
(d) On his arm.

11. Where does Gary finally get his first real sleep?
(a) Next to the fire.
(b) In a lodge.
(c) In a cabin.
(d) On his sled.

12. How many full teams are in the basin?
(a) Eight.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Nine.

13. Why is Gary lying down in Dalzell Gorge?
(a) He slipped on the ice and fell.
(b) Another musher knocked him down.
(c) He is finally getting some sleep.
(d) He hit his head and was knocked unconscious.

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

15. What does Gary NOT hallucinate in The Burn?
(a) A moose attack.
(b) A thin man with glasses.
(c) A nude woman.
(d) His cabin in Minnesota.