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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 surrounded by his dogs.
(b) Being welcomed by total strangers.
(c) All of these.
(d) Being welcomed by the ghosts of the graveyard.

2. What isn't there in this place?
(a) Snow.
(b) All of these.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Landmarks.

3. What did the man with the wolf want?
(a) To kill Paulsen's team.
(b) To breed her to some big dogs.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Neither of these.

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

5. Which dog attempted to kill Yogi?
(a) Owen.
(b) Clarence.
(c) Obeah.
(d) Cookie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the boy grab Paulsen's team?

2. On day eight, what does Wilson do?

3. How many paper bowls of chili did Paulsen eat?

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

5. How heavy did Fred get?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were the dogs strange with Gary?

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

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

4. Why did Cookie stop before the arch?

5. How does it feel, on day three, for Gary running the dogs?

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

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

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

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

10. When did Storm pointedly drop the stick?

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