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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the major challenge in The Burn?
(a) Deep snow.
(b) The river.
(c) The gorge.
(d) Fallen trees.

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

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

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

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

8. What is the first thing the doctor in "An End" says to Gary?
(a) "You need surgery right away."
(b) "You are fit as a fiddle."
(c) "Your wife should be here."
(d) "The tests are positive."

9. What is the maximum speed of a team in The Interior?
(a) Six miles per hour.
(b) Ten miles per hour.
(c) Five miles per hour.
(d) Three miles per hour.

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

11. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the reporter ask Gary at the finish line?

2. Where is the second to last checkpoint?

3. When does "An End" take place?

4. What is touted as the worst part of the race?

5. For whom is the ham radio operator looking?

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