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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Paulsen call while mushing?
(a) Billy?
(b) Willy?
(c) None of these.
(d) Cookie?

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

4. What made the dogs nervous?
(a) The smoke rising up over the hill.
(b) The deer blind.
(c) The fog, carpeting the ground.
(d) The deer standing on the side of the trail, unmoving.

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

6. What did Paulsen mix with the Boyardee to make a stew?
(a) Two small potatoes.
(b) Two small carrots.
(c) An onion, carrot and potato.
(d) Two small pieces of the dogs fat.

7. Which dog nearly took Storm's head off in surprise at this action?
(a) Fonzie.
(b) Cookie.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Obeah.

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

9. How did Paulsen know that the dogs weren't tired?
(a) They had been whining to start running.
(b) They had been running very fast moments before.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

10. What rumor tears though the camp?
(a) One woman was attacked by a moose and killed.
(b) All of these.
(c) One musher is lost and feared dead.
(d) Someone was dragged to death in the gorge.

11. What form of mutiny did the team commit?
(a) They all snapped at Gary.
(b) They all laid down.
(c) They all growled and bit.
(d) All of these.

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

13. Where is the start of the Iditarod?
(a) Anchorage, Alaska.
(b) Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
(c) Fairbanks, Alaska.
(d) Nome, Alaska.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On day seven, what does Wilson do?

2. At what point is there a mandatory twenty-four hour layover?

3. Why did the deer allow the dogs to approach?

4. What had driven the deer nearly mad with rage?

5. What characteristics were a part of Storm?

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