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

2. Which dog nearly took Storm's head off in surprise at this action?
(a) Obeah.
(b) Cookie.
(c) Fonzie.
(d) Columbia.

3. What rumor tears though the camp?
(a) All of these.
(b) One musher is lost and feared dead.
(c) Someone was dragged to death in the gorge.
(d) One woman was attacked by a moose and killed.

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

5. When do cedar waxwings come?
(a) The middle of summer.
(b) The first part of spring.
(c) The first part of summer.
(d) The middle of spring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What behavioral changes did Fred go through?

2. Which dog shreds their harness?

3. What was the glowing object?

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

5. How far is the run downhill on day twelve?

Short Essay Questions

1. How cold had it been that week?

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

3. When did Storm pointedly drop the stick?

4. On day nine, who comes and offers Paulsen a proposition? What is this proposition?

5. What did the 'person' who arrived to help Paulsen look like?

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

7. What was Gary worried about in day four?

8. What tradition did Storm start, and what did it come to mean?

9. What does Gary say the dogs told him while they were in the gully?

10. What does it not seem possible to accomplish and why?

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