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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, The Race, Days 7-16&17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the start of the Iditarod?
(a) Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
(b) Nome, Alaska.
(c) Anchorage, Alaska.
(d) Fairbanks, Alaska.

2. What stops the sled?
(a) A bear.
(b) The sled breaks.
(c) A moose.
(d) A musher that had stopped to repair his own sled.

3. What happened when Gary had attempted to put the eggs under the mean-spirited hen?
(a) She squawked and stepped on one of her own eggs.
(b) She bit down on his leather coat and tore it.
(c) She pecked his hand bloody.
(d) She bit down on his thumbnail and tore a bit off.

4. What came out of the willows?
(a) A fox.
(b) A lynx.
(c) A cougar.
(d) A white tailed deer.

5. Which dog nearly took Storm's head off in surprise at this action?
(a) Fonzie.
(b) Cookie.
(c) Obeah.
(d) Columbia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the warm gentle feeling that Paulsen gets at the checkpoint on day eleven?

2. Why did Gary stop and turn around?

3. What happened to Storm?

4. What isn't there in this place?

5. What gets the dogs wound up?

(see the answer key)

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