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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. What couldn't Paulsen see without his headlamp in the dark?
(a) Puddles.
(b) All of these.
(c) Branches.
(d) Potholes.

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

3. What did Paulsen think was lovely?
(a) His bag of beef jerky.
(b) His can of Chef Boyardee ravioli.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Neither of these.

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

5. What form of mutiny did the team commit?
(a) They all snapped at Gary.
(b) They all laid down.
(c) All of these.
(d) They all growled and bit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Paulsen end up eating to maintain energy?

2. What is historically a highway through Alaska?

3. At what point is there a mandatory twenty-four hour layover?

4. What kind of ears did Storm have?

5. What did the man do while Paulsen was hallucinating?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened to him as a result?

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

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

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

6. What happens to the dogs when they get tangled up and turn inwards, and what was the risk created?

7. What strange activity did the cedar waxwings engage in?

8. How were the dogs strange with Gary?

9. What was Gary worried about in day four?

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

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