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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What were mushers warned about that Gary approaches on day six?
(a) Both of these.
(b) The Burn.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) The Wastes.

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

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

5. What leaves no mysteries?
(a) Trails.
(b) None of these.
(c) Branches.
(d) New snow.

6. How heavy did Fred get?
(a) Eighty-five pounds.
(b) A hundred and thirty pounds.
(c) A hundred and twenty pounds.
(d) Seventy-eight pounds.

7. What nationality was the man who helped Paulsen?
(a) White.
(b) Inuit.
(c) Eskimo.
(d) Black.

8. The weather never rose above what temperature?
(a) Forty below.
(b) Ten below.
(c) Twenty below.
(d) Thirty below.

9. What is the command for the team to go right?
(a) Me.
(b) Gee.
(c) Kaw.
(d) Haw.

10. What did Paulsen begin to think of, against his will?
(a) Ghosts and goblins.
(b) Dark nights and snakes under the bed.
(c) All of these things.
(d) Sounds he didn't know and bodies he had found

11. What couldn't Paulsen see without his headlamp in the dark?
(a) Potholes.
(b) Branches.
(c) Puddles.
(d) All of these.

12. Who had touched the fawn?
(a) Paulsen.
(b) The boy.
(c) The pup.
(d) The father.

13. Who helped Paulsen out of the sled?
(a) His friend.
(b) None of these.
(c) His wife.
(d) His daughter.

14. What is historically a highway through Alaska?
(a) Tanana River.
(b) Yukon River.
(c) Kuskokwim River
(d) Porcupine River.

15. On day nine, what landed beside Paulsen and his team?
(a) A butterfly.
(b) A griffin.
(c) A dragon.
(d) A plane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gary think he was hallucinating, but wasn't?

2. What did Storm see as the enemy on the sled?

3. Why did the boy grab Paulsen's team?

4. How many hours did this continue for?

5. What did the man put in the sled with Paulsen?

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