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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 does Paulsen call while mushing?
(a) Billy?
(b) Cookie?
(c) Willy?
(d) None of these.

2. Which dog shreds their harness?
(a) Cookie.
(b) Blue.
(c) Storm.
(d) Columbia.

3. Why did the deer allow the dogs to approach?
(a) It was trapped.
(b) It was injured.
(c) It was frozen, dead and standing upright.
(d) It was desperate.

4. How did Paulsen know that the dogs weren't tired?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) They had been running very fast moments before.
(d) They had been whining to start running.

5. What kind of eyes did Storm have?
(a) Green eyes.
(b) Scale eyes.
(c) Blue eyes.
(d) Gold eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. On day eight, what does Paulsen compare crossing the interior of Alaska by dog team to?

2. Which dog attempted to kill Yogi?

3. What stops the sled?

4. What characteristics were a part of Storm?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why is there chaos in the first night?

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

7. How were the dogs strange with Gary?

8. What did this person do for Paulsen?

9. What happened to him as a result?

10. On day thirteen, what does Paulsen begin to see everywhere?

(see the answer keys)

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