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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What device does Krakauer use to open Chapter 1 and subsequent chapters?
(a) A quotation.
(b) A photograph.
(c) A skull and cross bones.
(d) A drawing.

2. How does Chapter 1 begin?
(a) With a postcard written by McCandless, addressed to Wayne Westerberg in Carthage, South Dakota.
(b) With a conversation Chris has with an Inuit.
(c) With a letter Chris writes to his sister.
(d) With a description of the Alaskan wildeerness.

3. What was Chris carrying when he met Jim Gallien?
(a) A battered canoe.
(b) A rifle.
(c) A small dog.
(d) A plastic bag of groceries.

4. What was Chris's plan for after college that he did not tell his family?
(a) He planed to go on an indefinite road trip.
(b) He planed to commit suicide.
(c) He planed to go live in Mexico.
(d) He planed to marry a girl his parents did not approve of.

5. What group of Irish aesthetics does Krakauer include in Chapter 9?
(a) St Patrick monks.
(b) The highlanders.
(c) The papar.
(d) The Celtic travelers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Krakauer suggest shows that Chris was not mentally ill?

2. What did Chris and Ruess each do shortly before their deaths?

3. What response does Krakauer report that he got from his OUTSIDE Magazine article on Chris?

4. What did Westerberg give Chris?

5. Impressed with Chris's intelligence, what did Franz try to get him to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Jim Gallien's difficulty contacting the Alaska state troopers.

2. Tell how Krakauer disliked the assertion from so many people that Chris had foolishly thrown away his life.

3. Why does Krakauer include the story of Everett Ruess in Chapter 9?

4. What is a literary parallel between Chris and Ruess?

5. How are letters written by Ruess and Chris another point of similarity in their stories?

6. Describe the first indication that Walt and Billie McCandless had of where Chris might be.

7. Discuss Chris's abandonment of his beloved Datsun.

8. Jon Krakauer wrote an article about Chris McCandless for OUTSIDE magazine in January of 1993. Explain why Krakauer was then compelled to write the book, Into The Wild

9. What is Krakauer's summary of Chris's actions during the time he was looking for work to save up for Alaska?

10. What was the relationship Chris developed with the Westerberg family?

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