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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did the first run take?
(a) Seventeen days and thirteen hours.
(b) Sixteen days and fifteen hours.
(c) Seventeen days and fourteen hours.
(d) Seventeen days and twenty hours.

2. On day eight, what does Wilson do?
(a) Falls over.
(b) Begins limping.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

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

4. Why is 'scratching' spoken of as a disease?
(a) The dogs must be shipped back to where they came from.
(b) It is costly to go home.
(c) Everyone wants to finish.
(d) Racers who scratch are considered amateurs.

5. Why couldn't Paulsen touch the man?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Both of these.
(c) The sled moved too fast.
(d) The man wasn't really there.

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

7. How many paper bowls of chili did Paulsen eat?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Six.

8. Why is it hard to catch a grouse unaware?
(a) They are always listening carefully.
(b) They explode out of the snow when they hear something coming.
(c) All of these.
(d) They set up an alarm system through the snow of dried sticks.

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

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

11. What did Paulsen think was lovely?
(a) His bag of beef jerky.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Both of these.
(d) His can of Chef Boyardee ravioli.

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

13. What is phony about the start of the race?
(a) Both of these.
(b) The race doesn't actually start in Anchorage, it's a publicity stunt.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) The race starts later than it is publicized.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the dogs had gotten frost bitten ears?

2. What mountain range must the team cross?

3. What joke did Storm play on the dog that pulled next to him?

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

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

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