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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 behavioral changes did Fred go through?
(a) He stopped coming when Gary called.
(b) He lost his temper and became easily irritable.
(c) All of these.
(d) He quit guarding the house and alerting people to the presence of strangers.

2. What did Gary think he was hallucinating, but wasn't?
(a) A moose.
(b) A wolf.
(c) A buffalo.
(d) A bear.

3. What is phony about the start of the race?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) The race doesn't actually start in Anchorage, it's a publicity stunt.
(c) Both of these.
(d) The race starts later than it is publicized.

4. What does Gary do to get the moose to move?
(a) He made a loud noise to startle the moose.
(b) He kicked the moose in the left flank.
(c) He pepper sprayed the moose.
(d) He utilized a bear banger on the moose.

5. What does Gary do in his moment of sheer stupidity?
(a) None of these.
(b) Ties his feet to the sled.
(c) Ties his legs to the sled.
(d) Ties his arm to the sled.

Short Answer Questions

1. How deep is the snow on day two?

2. What made the dogs nervous?

3. Why couldn't Paulsen touch the man?

4. What characteristics were a part of Storm?

5. How many miles is the Iditarod from start to finish?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gary hear that breaks him of the spell that took him not to finish the Run?

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

3. How were the dogs strange with Gary?

4. Why is there chaos in the first night?

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

6. What happened to him as a result?

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

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

9. Why is Gary unworried about the rumors he hears on the mandatory twenty-four hour layover?

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

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