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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What evidence does Krakauer find that suggests Chris was ready to re-enter society?
(a) Chris had written down the names and addresses of everyone who had helped him so he could visit them again.
(b) Chris's journal indicated that he was beginning to doubt Thoreau.
(c) Doctor Zhivago, a book Chris was reading, includes that genuine happiness must be shared with one's fellow human beings and Chris had made a note beside that passage.
(d) The graffiti Chris drew on the bus indicated he wanted to see people again.

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

3. What was in the McCandless house that speaks to the feelings of Walt and Billie McCandless toward Chris?
(a) A photo memorial to Chris on the dining room table.
(b) Clippings of newspaper articles and magazine stories about Chris.
(c) All of Chris's track trophies lined up on the mantle.
(d) No photos of Chris in the house.

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

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

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

7. What did the bones outside the bus reveal?
(a) That the bus had been attacked by wolves.
(b) That the animal Chris killed had been eaten by vultures.
(c) That Chris had been unable to kill edible animals.
(d) What Chris thought was a moose was actually caribou.

8. What sad discovery does Krakauer make just a quarter mile down stream on the river?
(a) There is evidence that Chris came that far and went back.
(b) There is a ranger station stocked with all kinds of food.
(c) At the now defunct station, a steel cable stretches across the river with an aluminum basket suspended from this cable by pulleys.
(d) There is an old bridge that a person could walk across.

9. What emotional experience disturbed Chris while he is staying in the bus?
(a) Thinking about his sister.
(b) Killing a moose and being unable to preserve the meat.
(c) Watching an otter get captured by an eagle.
(d) Bad dreams that hinted of his death.

10. What trait did sports reveal in Chris?
(a) He did not take defeat well.
(b) He was lazy about training.
(c) He wanted other people to win.
(d) He was not interested in competition.

11. What two requests did Stuckey make of Alex as they parted company?
(a) Wait until spring and work to get money for better boots.
(b) Change his mind and go back to the Westerbergs.
(c) Send him photos of his adventure and notify the forrest service where he will be.
(d) Write him a letter when he returns and call his parents before he goes into the wilderness.

12. A year after Chris's death, what did Krakauer observe on the banks of the Teklanika River where Chris had been unable to cross?
(a) There are dangerous rocks just under the surface of the water.
(b) The river is indeed a wide, churning flow of water.
(c) The river was overflowing its banks.
(d) The ice was breaking up and the footing was dangerous.

13. 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.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Jon Krakauer interview Walt McCandless?

2. What did Chris do the summer after his sophomore year in college?

3. What happened to Billie in July of 1992?

4. What was the skeleton in Walt's closet that stressed the whole family, Chris in particular?

5. Why does Krakauer relate his own experiences in Chapter 14?

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