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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What joke did Storm play on the dog that pulled next to him?
(a) He would blow in their ear.
(b) He would lick their ear.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What stops the sled?

2. How many dogs did Gary have at the time this book was written?

3. What is the only thing that Gary initially wanted?

4. What did the same person do later?

5. What did Gary learn from challenging his lead dog's sense of direction?

Short Essay Questions

1. When does Gary's friend appear again, and what does he do?

2. On day thirteen, what does Paulsen begin to see everywhere?

3. Why is Gary unworried about the rumors he hears on the mandatory twenty-four hour layover?

4. When did Storm pointedly drop the stick?

5. Why did the stump glow, did Paulsen find out later?

6. What does Gary hear that breaks him of the spell that took him not to finish the Run?

7. Why did Cookie stop before the arch?

8. What is the difference with hallucinations during the race?

9. What are the hills dotted with that Gary sees on day nine?

10. What things didn't make sense about where the deer was?

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