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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the same person do later?
(a) Kept Paulsen from wandering away from his sled.
(b) Helped the lead dog out of a drift.
(c) Helped lead the lead dog to civilization.
(d) Helped Paulsen get warm by helping him build a fire.

2. What had taken out the trail?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) A logging truck.
(c) Both of these.
(d) A logging skidder.

3. What isn't there in this place?
(a) Snow.
(b) All of these.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Landmarks.

4. 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.

5. What wasn't one of the rumors that were abounding at Norton Sound?
(a) Someone has gone through the ice and the team was found wandering alone.
(b) Someone was on a large cake of ice that drifted out to sea.
(c) Someone has gone insane and is making big circles out on the tundra, but no one will help lest they get disqualified.
(d) A polar bear ate half a sled team and their musher froze to death.

6. What did Paulsen note about the man's eyes?
(a) They were vacant.
(b) They were gentle.
(c) They were blue.
(d) They were cold.

7. What did the word sound like in Paulsen's friend's mouth?
(a) A command.
(b) An explosion.
(c) None of these.
(d) An epithet.

8. What characteristics were a part of Storm?
(a) Peacefulness.
(b) Loyalty.
(c) Toughness.
(d) All of these.

9. What joke did Storm play on the dog that pulled next to him?
(a) He would blow in their ear.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Both of these.
(d) He would lick their ear.

10. What did the man do while Paulsen was hallucinating?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Tell him when to go.
(d) Help him harness the team.

11. When do cedar waxwings come?
(a) The middle of spring.
(b) The middle of summer.
(c) The first part of spring.
(d) The first part of summer.

12. What did Storm use to communicate with Gary?
(a) Vocalizations.
(b) A ball.
(c) A stick.
(d) A pine cone.

13. What kind of ears did Storm have?
(a) A bat's ears.
(b) None of these.
(c) A foxes ears.
(d) A bear's ears.

14. What do highbush cranberries taste like, according to Paulsen's grandmother?
(a) Old dishrags.
(b) Old feet.
(c) Old shoes.
(d) Old socks.

15. What does Gary leave behind at the checkpoint when the rope breaks?
(a) His snow hook.
(b) His goggles.
(c) His hat.
(d) His felt lining for his gloves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is historically a highway through Alaska?

2. Why did Gary stop and turn around?

3. The weather never rose above what temperature?

4. How many cedar waxwings would alight on a branch?

5. What is the command for the team to go right?

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