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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 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 all enter the family business.
(d) That they would excell in sports.

2. What did Billie leave in the bus?
(a) A suitcase filled with emergency food supplies.
(b) Three heavy blankets.
(c) A set of steel plates and cups.
(d) A down coat and some matches.

3. What happened 10 months after Chris's death?
(a) Carine had a dream about Chris.
(b) The company that owns the bus took it away.
(c) Ten months after McCandless's death, Krakauer, Billie and Walt took a helicopter to the bus site.
(d) Billie and Walt got a divorce.

4. August 12, Chris left the bus to forage for berries. What did the note he left on the door say?
(a) It was a desperate plea for assistance signed with his real name.
(b) "There is stew on the stove, go in and help yourself."
(c) "Gone fishing, be back in one hour."
(d) "If I do not return, look for me north of the bus."

5. What similarity is there between Jon's relationship with his father and Chris's relationship with Walt?
(a) Both fathers turned out to be bigamists.
(b) Both fathers were weak willed and seldom gave their children advice.
(c) Both fathers were old and out of touch.
(d) Secrets were revealed and both young men resented the hypocracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Billie find in the bus?

2. What sad discovery does Krakauer make just a quarter mile down stream on the river?

3. What does Carine recall that Chris loved so much?

4. Chris's parents had moved, but his step brother was contacted. After he positively identified Chris, what did he do?

5. What important work does Walt McCandless do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe why the McCandlesses could not take the exact trek to the bus that Chris had taken.

6. What indicates to Krakauer that there was a very close relationship between Carine and Chris?

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

8. What items did Billie and Walt McCandless leave behind in the bus?

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

10. What is so unusual about Chris's never seeing another human being while he was camped at the bus?

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