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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Running, Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is largely useless to sled dogs in dry food?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) The corn meal used as a base.
(d) The kibbles themselves.

2. What was strange about the light that Paulsen saw?
(a) It was low to the ground, and wide.
(b) It was glowing green.
(c) It seemed to pulse and ebb.
(d) All of these.

3. How do grouse get hit by cars?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) They eat the salt left behind from the winter.
(c) They eat the gravel to help them digest their food.
(d) Both of these.

4. What does Gary define as "serious cold"?
(a) Sixty below zero.
(b) All of these.
(c) Fifty below zero.
(d) Forty below zero.

5. What did Gary see on a river in Alaska?
(a) All of these.
(b) A fish, frozen into the water.
(c) Snow forming from the water as it rushed against a rock.
(d) A whirlpool had frozen into a cone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the glowing object?

2. What had driven the deer nearly mad with rage?

3. How was Storm the classic sled dog?

4. What was the partial solution to the flies that Paulsen discovered accidentally?

5. What does Gary like most about the woodstove?

(see the answer key)

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