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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 isn't there in this place?
(a) Landmarks.
(b) Snow.
(c) All of these.
(d) Dirt.

2. What things disappeared around Storm?
(a) A roll of tape.
(b) A cloth glove liner.
(c) All of these.
(d) A ladle.

3. What is a bad sign in a musher?
(a) Stomping feet.
(b) Staring blankly.
(c) All of these.
(d) Teeth chattering.

4. Which dog attempted to kill Yogi?
(a) Clarence.
(b) Owen.
(c) Obeah.
(d) Cookie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Paulsen end up eating to maintain energy?

2. Who does the man Paulsen meets remind him of?

3. Why couldn't Paulsen touch the man?

4. How does Gary describe the experience of sledding the Iditarod in day three?

5. How long did the first run take?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did this person do for Paulsen?

2. How cold had it been that week?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why did Cookie stop before the arch?

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