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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the distance between Shaktolik and Koyuk?
(a) Seventy-five miles.
(b) Eighty-five miles.
(c) One hundred five miles.
(d) Fifty-five miles.

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

3. How does Gary spend most of his time in Dalzell Gorge?
(a) On his back.
(b) On his sled.
(c) On his butt.
(d) On his face.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gary stop before reaching Unalakleet?

2. According to Gary, what is "that which is cold"?

3. What test does Gary NOT have in the last chapter of the book?

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

5. What does one of the mushers say when Gary and his team are on the frozen river in Happy Canyon?

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