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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the dogs have?
(a) Humor.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Great old knowledge.

3. Who 'doctored' Gary's wounds?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Obeah.
(c) Olaf.
(d) Duberry.

4. What kind of song did the dogs sing as the fire died?
(a) An angry song.
(b) A sad song.
(c) A happy song.
(d) None of these.

5. What was nothing to Storm?
(a) His blood.
(b) Both of these.
(c) None of these.
(d) Paulsen's anxiety.

6. What animals are taken from the southern farms?
(a) Pigs.
(b) Cows.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Chickens.

7. What did Gary begin training his dogs for?
(a) The Iditarod in Alaska.
(b) The Cannington dog sled race.
(c) The Caledonia Classic sled race.
(d) The Yukon Quest in the Yukon Territory.

8. Whose blood would begin to teach Paulsen?
(a) Storm.
(b) Yogi.
(c) Obeah.
(d) Columbia.

9. Why was it impossible to not be near this hen's brood?
(a) They were scattered across the yard.
(b) There were many of them.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

10. What have the chickens discovered?
(a) All of these.
(b) That the chimney conducts heat.
(c) That the cats can be ridden.
(d) That the dogs scare predators away.

11. What was Gary's ignorance based on?
(a) Things he had been told.
(b) All of these.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Experience.

12. What did Gary think about simply running the dogs for no reason?
(a) Both of these.
(b) It was immature.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) It was wasteful.

13. What happened when Storm was tied to the sled, and the sled started to move?
(a) Storm howled.
(b) Storm went insane, and tore up the sled until he was allowed off.
(c) Storm passed out.
(d) None of these.

14. What did Paulsen do that he didn't want to do, but that Storm would give him no choice?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Tied Storm back to the line to pull.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Tied Storm to the sled.

15. What is the primary difference between people and animals?
(a) All of these.
(b) People use fire.
(c) People use tools.
(d) People have opposable thumbs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is largely useless to sled dogs in dry food?

2. How long did Paulsen think the run was originally going to take him?

3. What happened as a result of the interaction between Olaf and Columbia?

4. What animals did the bears leave alone?

5. What is cuter than a grouse chick, according to Gary?

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