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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 is so poignant about the final photograph Chris took of himself holding his good-bye note?
(a) His emaciated frame contrasts with the smile on his face.
(b) The end of his good-bye note says he will see everyone in a month.
(c) It is blurry because he was too weak to hold the camera steady.
(d) He doesn't realize that he is holding the note upside down.

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

3. How did the police know Chris's real last name?
(a) From the note he had taped to the bus door.
(b) From his Social Security card they found in his wallet.
(c) From his journal.
(d) From his virginia driver's license.

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

5. What was the tender moment between Chris and his father right after Chris graduated from high school?
(a) He asked his father's advice about choosing a college.
(b) He let his father ready his personal journal.
(c) He gave his father an expensive telescope and told him how much he appreciated him.
(d) He spent that summer doing things with his father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What affected the eating habits of Chris's family?

2. What gift did Walt give Billie after the birth of Chris?

3. What information does Gallien provide the police?

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

5. How does Roman Dial, who teaches at the University of Alaska, interpret Chris's actions?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Jim Gillien's difficulty in contacting the Alaska police.

2. In Chris's journal, what did he think was happening to him?

3. How did Chris manage the last leg of his trip into Fairbanks?

4. What was the irony Krakauer thought about as he kept attempting to climb Devil's Thumb?

5. Who was Sam McCandless, and why was he the one to notify Chris's parents?

6. What discovery did Chris make the summer after his freshman year in college that drove a deeper wedge between him and his father?

7. How was Krakauer's Alaska experience different from Chris's?

8. What discovery about himself did Krakauer make after conquering Devil's Thumb?

9. To show his kindred spirit with Chris, what does Krakauer write about in Chapter 14?

10. As Krakauer, visiting the site, stood on the banks of the raging Teklanika River, what advantage did he have that Chris did not have?

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