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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Paulsen end up eating to maintain energy?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Sticks of butter.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Powdered protein.

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

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

4. What kind of eyes did Storm have?
(a) Scale eyes.
(b) Green eyes.
(c) Blue eyes.
(d) Gold eyes.

5. What did Paulsen see as if in a dream?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) They crossed a lake with bad ice.
(c) They crossed a creek where there was open water, and the dogs worked around it.
(d) Both of these.

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

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

8. What nationality was the man who helped Paulsen?
(a) Eskimo.
(b) Inuit.
(c) Black.
(d) White.

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

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

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

12. What did the man put in the sled with Paulsen?
(a) All of these.
(b) The snow hook.
(c) A meal.
(d) A blanket.

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

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

15. What does Gary do to get the moose to move?
(a) He utilized a bear banger on the moose.
(b) He made a loud noise to startle the moose.
(c) He kicked the moose in the left flank.
(d) He pepper sprayed the moose.

Short Answer Questions

1. What couldn't Paulsen see without his headlamp in the dark?

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

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

4. What ate the chipmunk?

5. What did Paulsen note about the man's eyes?

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