2. What does Gary leave behind at the checkpoint when the rope breaks?
(a) His hat.
(b) His goggles.
(c) His snow hook.
(d) His felt lining for his gloves.

3. What was strange about the light that Paulsen saw?
(a) All of these.
(b) It was low to the ground, and wide.
(c) It seemed to pulse and ebb.
(d) It was glowing green.

4. On day seven, what does Wilson do?
(a) Run and try and lick his feet.
(b) Run on three legs and suck a foot.
(c) Is sick.
(d) Fall over.

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

6. What wasn't one of the rumors that were abounding at Norton Sound?
(a) Someone has gone insane and is making big circles out on the tundra, but no one will help lest they get disqualified.
(b) Someone was on a large cake of ice that drifted out to sea.
(c) A polar bear ate half a sled team and their musher froze to death.
(d) Someone has gone through the ice and the team was found wandering alone.

7. Who does the man Paulsen meets remind him of?
(a) The man who had taught him how to mush.
(b) The man who had encouraged him to pursue his dreams of dog sledding.
(c) His father.
(d) The person who helped him while he was sick and when he was lost in the Burn.

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

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

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

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

12. What didn't Paulsen see the man do?
(a) Put three sodas in his sled.
(b) Put two sodas in his sled.
(c) Put a flask of rum in his sled.
(d) Put a flask of whiskey in his sled.

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

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

15. At what point is there a mandatory twenty-four hour layover?
(a) Rain River.
(b) Slough River.
(c) Rhine River.
(d) Rhone River.