1. What ambitions did Jon Krakauer's father have for all of his children?
(a) That they would attend Ivy League schools.
(b) That they would leave home and be on their own after high school.
(c) That they would excell in sports.
(d) That they would all enter the family business.

2. What did Chris do the summer after his sophomore year in college?
(a) He worked in a garage to make money to buy his Datsun.
(b) He took a cross country hike.
(c) He spent the entire summer with his sister, Carine.
(d) He returned to Annandale and wrote a flawless software program.

3. 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) Walt had always been kind and generous but Chris had always been aloof.
(d) Chris was a carbon copy of his father when he was that age.

4. Where did Chris's canoe trip eventually take him after going as far as he could down the Colorado River?
(a) He retraced his way back upstream.
(b) Some duck hunters agreed to drive him to the Gulf of California.
(c) He headed South and ended up in Acapulco.
(d) He ended up staying with a Mexican family for six weeks.

5. Where did Chris leave from on April 15, 1992 on his journey to Alaska?
(a) Seattle.
(b) Los angeles.
(c) Oregon.
(d) Carthage.