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

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

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

4. 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 my son hasn't graduated from college yet."
(c) "But I've just become successful."
(d) "But I haven't learned how to release the bowstring."

5. Outside Shageluk, where is the musher who belongs to the abandoned sled?
(a) In her sleeping bag.
(b) Behind some bushes.
(c) On a large boulder.
(d) Lying on the ground.

6. What is the Doughnut man's punishment?
(a) He has to pay a huge fine.
(b) He is attacked by his other dogs.
(c) Gary shoots him in the leg.
(d) He is disqualified and barred from the Iditarod for life.

7. What are the buffalo doing in The Burn?
(a) Hunting.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Playing.
(d) Trying to cross the river.

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

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

10. Where is Norton Sound located?
(a) Over the Bering Sea.
(b) At the base of the Alaska Mountains.
(c) In Canada.
(d) Near Anchorage.

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

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

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

14. What does another musher say when Gary leaves the Finger Lake checkpoint?
(a) "Can we run our teams together?"
(b) "Good luck!"
(c) "My dogs need more rest."
(d) "I'm waiting until dark."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these mountains must be crossed between Koyuk and Nome?

2. What does Devil do to another dog in Dalzell Gorge?

3. What type of terrain do the teams encounter between Shaktolik and Koyuk?

4. Where is Rainy Pass Lodge?

5. What does Gary know about Happy Canyon when he leaves the Finger Lake checkpoint?

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