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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, The Alaska Interior.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What problem did the authorities have after removing Chris's body?
(a) Getting the body to Fairbanks.
(b) Identifying him.
(c) Finding enough tissue to autopsy.
(d) Keeping the body frozen.

2. What did Westerberg give Chris?
(a) A job on his combine crew.
(b) A ride to Alaska.
(c) A meal and a room for the night.
(d) A pair of rubber boots.

3. What did Gallien know about city people who came to do what Chris had in mind?
(a) They usually gave up after three days.
(b) They quickly walked back to Fairbanks.
(c) Such greenhorns usually underestimated the wilderness to their own peril.
(d) They never got around to writing about their adventure.

4. What is ironic about Krakauer's descriptions of Walt McCandless and that of his rebellious son, Chris?
(a) Walt and Chris believe in the same socialistic things.
(b) Krakauer describes Chris and Walt McCandless as being very similar, both stubborn and temperamental individuals.
(c) Chris was a carbon copy of his father when he was that age.
(d) Walt had always been kind and generous but Chris had always been aloof.

5. What was the tender moment between Chris and his father right after Chris graduated from high school?
(a) He let his father ready his personal journal.
(b) He spent that summer doing things with his father.
(c) He gave his father an expensive telescope and told him how much he appreciated him.
(d) He asked his father's advice about choosing a college.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Krakauer include so much about the McCandless family in Chapter 3?

2. What did Chris do with the $24,000 he had left over from his inheritance?

3. What emotional experience disturbed Chris while he is staying in the bus?

4. What steps did Walt and Billie take to find Chris?

5. What message did Chris leave taped to the door of the bus?

(see the answer key)

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