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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 mountain range must the team cross?

2. What was strange about the light that Paulsen saw?

3. What nationality was the man who helped Paulsen?

4. What did the man do while Paulsen was hallucinating?

5. How long did the first run take?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happened to him as a result?

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

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

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

8. Why is Gary unworried about the rumors he hears on the mandatory twenty-four hour layover?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss the qualities that make a good sled dog. How are these qualities that Paulsen prefers and talks about more often than the dogs that don't possess these qualities? What are the least desirable qualities in a sled dog?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss dog sledding as a environmental alternative to mass transport in areas where it would be supported in the winter. What changes would occur in the ecology and environment as a result, or what unforeseen consequences might arise?

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