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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, The Stikine Ice Cap.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chris's parents had moved, but his step brother was contacted. After he positively identified Chris, what did he do?
(a) Contacted Gillien to get more information.
(b) Drove to Maryland to inform Chris's parents.
(c) Told his wife that he always knew Chris would end that way.
(d) Flew to Alaska to claim the body.

2. In Chris's relationships with people, what is the most striking contradiction?
(a) His hurtfulness toward his family and his refusal to help anyone else.
(b) His coldness toward his parents and his warmth with people he met in his travels.
(c) His love for his family but his inability to show it.
(d) His ambivalence to his family and his hatred of the people he met.

3. Chris confided to Gail Borah that he was close to one member of his family. Who is that?
(a) His gramdmother.
(b) His uncle, Milton.
(c) His cousin, Jason.
(d) His sister, Carine.

4. What news seriously alarmed Jan Burres?
(a) That Alex was wanted by the Nevada police.
(b) That Alex might be a serial killer.
(c) That Alex had burned the last of his money when he abandoned his car.
(d) That Alex never intended to see any of his family again.

5. What questions did Chris ask Gallien that impressed the older man?
(a) Informed questions about the flora and fauna of Alaska.
(b) About traffic in that part of Alaska.
(c) About moose and carribu.
(d) About the length of winters in Alaska.

Short Answer Questions

1. During an interview with Krakauer, what does Westerberg say about Chris?

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

3. In October of 1990, National Park Ranger, what did Bud Walsh discover?

4. When Krakauer was at the mountain he came to climb, what enhanced his emotions?

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

(see the answer key)

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