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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What causes the warm gentle feeling that Paulsen gets at the checkpoint on day eleven?
(a) All of these.
(b) Being welcomed by the ghosts of the graveyard.
(c) Being surrounded by his dogs.
(d) Being welcomed by total strangers.

3. On day eight, what does Paulsen compare crossing the interior of Alaska by dog team to?
(a) Being in the desert.
(b) Being on the moon.
(c) None of these.
(d) Being on mars.

4. On day seven, what is Paulsen offered that he turns down?
(a) A scotch.
(b) A soda.
(c) A whiskey.
(d) A beer.

5. What does Gary do to get the moose to move?
(a) He kicked the moose in the left flank.
(b) He utilized a bear banger on the moose.
(c) He made a loud noise to startle the moose.
(d) He pepper sprayed the moose.

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

7. Who does the man Paulsen meets remind him of?
(a) The man who had encouraged him to pursue his dreams of dog sledding.
(b) The person who helped him while he was sick and when he was lost in the Burn.
(c) The man who had taught him how to mush.
(d) His father.

8. What does Gary do in his moment of sheer stupidity?
(a) Ties his arm to the sled.
(b) Ties his legs to the sled.
(c) Ties his feet to the sled.
(d) None of these.

9. How does Gary describe the experience of sledding the Iditarod in day three?
(a) All of these.
(b) Like becoming a human uncluttered by civilization.
(c) Like becoming a cave painting.
(d) It is like going back ten to twelve thousand years.

10. What did Paulsen end up eating to maintain energy?
(a) Sticks of butter.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Powdered protein.
(d) Both of these.

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

12. What did Storm see as the enemy on the sled?
(a) Gary.
(b) The gear.
(c) The stove.
(d) All of these.

13. How many times did Fred attack the electric fence wire?
(a) Three times.
(b) Twice
(c) Once.
(d) Four times.

14. What is a bad sign in a musher?
(a) Staring blankly.
(b) Stomping feet.
(c) All of these.
(d) Teeth chattering.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which dog attempted to kill Yogi?

2. Which dog shreds their harness?

3. On day eight, what does Wilson do?

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

5. What is historically a highway through Alaska?

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