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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 didn't Paulsen see the man do?
(a) Put three sodas in his sled.
(b) Put two sodas in his sled.
(c) Put a flask of whiskey in his sled.
(d) Put a flask of rum in his sled.

2. How deep is the snow on day two?
(a) Up to Gary's armpits.
(b) Up to Gary's neck.
(c) Up to Gary's chin.
(d) Up to Gary's eyes.

3. What mountain range must the team cross?
(a) The Alaska Range.
(b) Bower's Ridge.
(c) The Aleutian Ridge.
(d) The Rocky Mountain Range.

4. How many miles is the Iditarod from start to finish?
(a) Over twelve hundred miles.
(b) Over twenty-one hundred miles.
(c) Over two thousand miles.
(d) Over eleven hundred miles.

5. What was strange about the light that Paulsen saw?
(a) It seemed to pulse and ebb.
(b) It was low to the ground, and wide.
(c) It was glowing green.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. On day seven, what does Wilson do?

2. What is a bad sign in a musher?

3. Which dog attempted to kill Yogi?

4. What causes the warm gentle feeling that Paulsen gets at the checkpoint on day eleven?

5. How did Paulsen know that the dogs weren't tired?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is there chaos in the first night?

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

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

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

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

8. What happened to him as a result?

9. What will Gary always blame himself for?

10. Why did Cookie stop before the arch?

(see the answer keys)

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