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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the boy grab Paulsen's team?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) He wanted the team to stay at his house so he could learn about dogs and sledding.
(c) Both of these.
(d) He wanted to tell the kids at school his family hosted a musher.

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

3. What mountain range must the team cross?
(a) The Alaska Range.
(b) The Aleutian Ridge.
(c) The Rocky Mountain Range.
(d) Bower's Ridge.

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

5. How many dogs did Gary have at the time this book was written?
(a) Twenty-one.
(b) Forty-seven.
(c) Forty-one.
(d) Thirty-six.

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

7. What was the glowing object?
(a) A lamp.
(b) A stump.
(c) A barrel.
(d) None of these.

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

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

10. At what point is there a mandatory twenty-four hour layover?
(a) Slough River.
(b) Rhone River.
(c) Rain River.
(d) Rhine River.

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

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

13. How many cedar waxwings would alight on a branch?
(a) No more than 9.
(b) No more than 8.
(c) No more than 8-10.
(d) No more than 5-8.

14. What is the only thing that Gary initially wanted?
(a) To see his wife again.
(b) To win the race.
(c) To finish the race.
(d) To go home.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On day seven, what does Wilson do?

2. What did Paulsen think was lovely?

3. Why did Gary stop and turn around?

4. What scared Paulsen about the song the dogs sang?

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

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