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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gary do to get the moose to move?

2. How many cedar waxwings would alight on a branch?

3. What did Gary think he was hallucinating, but wasn't?

4. What wasn't one of the rumors that were abounding at Norton Sound?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Gary worried about in day four?

3. What does it not seem possible to accomplish and why?

4. What did the 'person' who arrived to help Paulsen look like?

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

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

7. What did this person do for Paulsen?

8. How were the dogs strange with Gary?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the kind of character it would require to be a successful musher, as well as the attitude an individual would have to have. What kinds of traits in a person might suggest their success at dog sledding, and how would these traits be applicable to the sport?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the evolution of dogsledding, from when it was the only means of transportation to now being an optional means. What sort of things have become a luxury in the far north as a result of the change in shipping behavior? How has the overall public opinion changed as a result of alternative means of transportation?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the domestication of animals to serve a purpose for humanity. Suggest purposes for each domesticated animal, and how it might have been tamed in the first place. How have these needs changed throughout history, and to what major purpose to most domesticated animals serve today? What are some notable exceptions to this? Explain.

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