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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How many miles is the Iditarod from start to finish?
(a) Over twenty-one hundred miles.
(b) Over eleven hundred miles.
(c) Over twelve hundred miles.
(d) Over two thousand miles.

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

6. Which dog attempted to kill Yogi?
(a) Clarence.
(b) Owen.
(c) Cookie.
(d) Obeah.

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

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

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

10. What direction did Storm's head face when he died?
(a) West.
(b) East.
(c) South.
(d) North.

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

12. What did the man with the wolf want?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Both of these.
(c) To breed her to some big dogs.
(d) To kill Paulsen's team.

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

14. What did Paulsen note about the man's eyes?
(a) They were blue.
(b) They were cold.
(c) They were gentle.
(d) They were vacant.

15. Which dog shreds their harness?
(a) Cookie.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Blue.
(d) Storm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Paulsen end up eating to maintain energy?

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

3. What was strange about the light that Paulsen saw?

4. Who does the man Paulsen meets remind him of?

5. What characteristics were a part of Storm?

(see the answer keys)

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