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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many of the dogs had gotten frost bitten ears?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Six.
(d) Three.

3. Why did Gary stop and turn around?
(a) The Race is something that doesn't seem like it can be done.
(b) He doesn't want to finish the race.
(c) He doesn't really know for sure.
(d) All of these.

4. What things disappeared around Storm?
(a) A ladle.
(b) A cloth glove liner.
(c) A roll of tape.
(d) All of these.

5. What stops the sled?
(a) The sled breaks.
(b) A musher that had stopped to repair his own sled.
(c) A bear.
(d) A moose.

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

7. What did Gary learn from challenging his lead dog's sense of direction?
(a) That the lead dog will bite.
(b) That the lead dog will get the musher lost to prove a point.
(c) That the lead dog is always right.
(d) All of these.

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

9. How many hours did this continue for?
(a) Twenty-four.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Thirty-five.

10. What had taken out the trail?
(a) A logging skidder.
(b) A logging truck.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

11. What was the partial solution to the flies that Paulsen discovered accidentally?
(a) Both of these.
(b) That if he smeared mud on his body, they would go away.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) That shade repels them, a little.

12. What ate the chipmunk?
(a) A snake.
(b) A mouse.
(c) A red squirrel.
(d) A rat.

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

14. What behavioral changes did Fred go through?
(a) All of these.
(b) He lost his temper and became easily irritable.
(c) He quit guarding the house and alerting people to the presence of strangers.
(d) He stopped coming when Gary called.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the same person do later?

2. What kind of eyes did Storm have?

3. How many miles is the Iditarod from start to finish?

4. Who helped Paulsen out of the sled?

5. What were mushers warned about that Gary approaches on day six?

(see the answer keys)

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