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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 did Gary learn from challenging his lead dog's sense of direction?
(a) That the lead dog will bite.
(b) That the lead dog is always right.
(c) That the lead dog will get the musher lost to prove a point.
(d) All of these.

2. What did Paulsen end up eating to maintain energy?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Powdered protein.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Sticks of butter.

3. What is historically a highway through Alaska?
(a) Tanana River.
(b) Yukon River.
(c) Kuskokwim River
(d) Porcupine River.

4. What did Storm see as the enemy on the sled?
(a) The stove.
(b) Gary.
(c) All of these.
(d) The gear.

5. What did the man do while Paulsen was hallucinating?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Tell him when to go.
(d) Help him harness the team.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What scared Paulsen about the song the dogs sang?

3. What did Paulsen begin to think of, against his will?

4. What direction did Storm's head face when he died?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was Gary worried about in day four?

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

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

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

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

9. What was it that Paulsen had feared? Which dog broke that fear and what did he do?

10. What happened to him as a result?

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