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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What affected the eating habits of Chris's family?
(a) Thinking about how they found Chris's body.
(b) Thinking more about the homeless.
(c) Learning that he starved to death.
(d) Not being able to eat rice.

2. How did Chris travel the 1,000 miles from Laird, Alaska, to Fairbanks?
(a) Jim Gallien gave him a lift.
(b) He walked most of the way.
(c) Hitchhiking, he got a series of rides.
(d) A truck driver named Gaylord Stuckey picked him up.

3. How does Krakauer interpret the evidence he gathered about Chris?
(a) He believes that Chris immersed himself in nature in an effort to isolate himself from human society.
(b) He sees Chris as a hopeles greenhorn without any knowledge of the terrain.
(c) He thinks that Chris was completely irrational and contributed to his own death.
(d) He suggests that someone else was in the bus and refused to help Chris.

4. What does Carine recall that Chris loved so much?
(a) Her dog, Buck.
(b) His yellow Datsun.
(c) The Gianni guitar.
(d) Reading Moby Dick.

5. How does Roman Dial, who teaches at the University of Alaska, interpret Chris's actions?
(a) He agrees that Chris was borderline neurotic.
(b) Roman admires McCandless's efforts but would not undertake them himself.
(c) He thinks the native Alaskans are right to condemn Chris.
(d) Roman thinks no one should ever attempt what Chris did.

6. How is Carine different from Chris?
(a) She made peace with their parents.
(b) She always returns home when she disappears.
(c) She is interested in helping the homeless.
(d) She is a good cook.

7. What information does Gallien provide the police?
(a) That Alex's real name was Chris McCandless.
(b) That Alex was coughing bad when he dropped him off.
(c) That Alex had mentioned a friend named Ron in California.
(d) That the young man had called himself Alex and had come from South Dakota.

8. Two decades later, what has Krakauer learned about his relationship with his father?
(a) Krakauer learned that he had improved himself by not becoming like his father.
(b) Krakauer realizes he was selfish, stubborn, and as difficult for his father to deal with as his father's behavior had been for him.
(c) Krakauer learned that his father was always shallow and always would be.
(d) Krakauer learned that he had been right to defy his father.

9. 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 excell in sports.
(c) That they would all enter the family business.
(d) That they would leave home and be on their own after high school.

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

11. What is significant about the cloth belt Krakauer founds in the bus?
(a) He seemd to have made it to tie up his paperback books.
(b) It must have been made when Chris got too thin for his jeans.
(c) Chris probably didn't want to ruin the leather belt he had made at Ron Franz's house.
(d) Chris had made it to keep himself busy.

12. How was Westerberg able to help the police?
(a) He told them Chris graduated from Emory University.
(b) He had Chris's Social Security number on file.
(c) He had a photo of Chris's yellow Datsun with the license plate showing.
(d) He had Chris's fingerprints on file.

13. At the time of publication of the notice of Chris's death, what problem did the police have?
(a) They had beed unable to get the body out.
(b) They had no response from the public about the body.
(c) They did not have forensic labs in that part of Alaska.
(d) They had been unable to identify him.

14. What did Billie find in the bus?
(a) One of Buck's dog collars.
(b) A coffee mug with the family monogram on it.
(c) A spoon from an old family silverware set.
(d) Photos of her and Walt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the tender moment between Chris and his father right after Chris graduated from high school?

2. What shows Chris's attitude toward injustices that began when he was in college?

3. When Krakauer reached an impassable place on the mountain, what did he do?

4. Where did Chris leave from on April 15, 1992 on his journey to Alaska?

5. What is prominently displayed in Carine McCandless's home?

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