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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to Gary at the Rohn River checkpoint?
(a) He has a hot meal at a cafe.
(b) He gets stitches for his wounds.
(c) He starts to think about quitting.
(d) He finally gets some sleep.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Norton Sound located?

2. Out of seventy teams, where is Gary and his team running when they reach Nikolai?

3. When does "An End" take place?

4. Where is the other musher in The Burn?

5. What happens when Gary steps off his sled while in the basin?

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