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

2. What did Paulsen mix with the Boyardee to make a stew?
(a) Two small pieces of the dogs fat.
(b) Two small potatoes.
(c) Two small carrots.
(d) An onion, carrot and potato.

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

4. What scared Paulsen about the song the dogs sang?
(a) It was a death song.
(b) It was a song the dogs had sung when one of their member had died in his kennel from old age.
(c) He had heard it only once before.
(d) All of these.

5. Why couldn't Paulsen touch the man?
(a) The man wasn't really there.
(b) The sled moved too fast.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were mushers warned about that Gary approaches on day six?

2. Which dog attempted to kill Yogi?

3. Why is it hard to catch a grouse unaware?

4. What had driven the deer nearly mad with rage?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was strange about the clearing that Paulsen came across?

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

4. What will Gary always blame himself for?

5. What did Paulsen eat while stuck in the deep cold?

6. When did Storm pointedly drop the stick?

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

8. How cold had it been that week?

9. What had Paulsen never seen in a deer as he did that day on the lake alone?

10. What was Gary worried about in day four?

(see the answer keys)

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