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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 is the only thing that Gary initially wanted?
(a) To win the race.
(b) To finish the race.
(c) To go home.
(d) To see his wife again.

2. What was the glowing object?
(a) A stump.
(b) A barrel.
(c) None of these.
(d) A lamp.

3. What did the man put in the sled with Paulsen?
(a) All of these.
(b) A blanket.
(c) A meal.
(d) The snow hook.

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

5. What couldn't Paulsen see without his headlamp in the dark?
(a) Puddles.
(b) Potholes.
(c) Branches.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What characteristics were a part of Storm?

5. What does Gary leave behind at the checkpoint when the rope breaks?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Cookie knowingly take the team over an edge for?

2. Why did the stump glow, did Paulsen find out later?

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

4. When did Storm pointedly drop the stick?

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

6. What did this person do for Paulsen?

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

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

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

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

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