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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Virginia Beach.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What human contact did Chris have as he hikeed West from Lake Mead?
(a) A troop of Boy Scouts.
(b) A few vagabonds and some law officers.
(c) Men working on an oil drilling rig.
(d) People in a small village.

2. What shows Chris's attitude toward injustices that began when he was in college?
(a) He began bringing homeless people to his dorm room.
(b) He took classes about world hunger, poverty, wealth distribution and racism.
(c) He started a soup kitchen in Annandale.
(d) He refused a new car because there were so many people who did not have one.

3. Why does Krakauer devote Chapter 9 to the story of Everett Ruess?
(a) Krakauer sees great similarities between Ruess and Chris.
(b) Karkauer wants to expand the scope of his thesis.
(c) Krakauer wants to demonstrate mental illness in Ruess.
(d) Krakauer wants to show how different Ruess is from Chris.

4. Where did Chris intend to hike?
(a) Southwestward into Canada.
(b) The Stampede Trail, a faint track in the wilderness well off the beaten path.
(c) Where no one had ever gone before.
(d) Along the Alaskan Pipeline.

5. How had Chris already been separating himself from his family?
(a) By going out of town for holidays and weekends.
(b) By not speaking to them for months at a time.
(c) By living off campus in a room that had no phone.
(d) By only meeting them occasionally at a restaurant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What strange actions did Chris take right after graduating college?

2. What does Krakauer think might have made the difference in Chris's survival?

3. How do Waterman and Chris differ?

4. What had Chris's mother and father offered to do after he graduated from college?

5. Chris confided to Gail Borah that he was close to one member of his family. Who is that?

(see the answer key)

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