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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 Paulsen mix with the Boyardee to make a stew?
(a) Two small potatoes.
(b) Two small carrots.
(c) An onion, carrot and potato.
(d) Two small pieces of the dogs fat.

2. What did Storm use to communicate with Gary?
(a) A stick.
(b) A ball.
(c) A pine cone.
(d) Vocalizations.

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times did Fred attack the electric fence wire?

2. What did the man with the wolf want?

3. At what point is there a mandatory twenty-four hour layover?

4. What did the man put in the sled with Paulsen?

5. What do highbush cranberries taste like, according to Paulsen's grandmother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What will Gary always blame himself for?

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

3. What things didn't make sense about where the deer was?

4. Why is there chaos in the first night?

5. What did this person do for Paulsen?

6. What was Gary worried about in day four?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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