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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jason want to learn from the older man?
(a) How to make a wife happy.
(b) What to do if caught hopping rail cars.
(c) What it takes to get to Klondike.
(d) What is the best warm states in America.

2. What does Jason wonder when he arrives at Lake Bennett?
(a) If he should go home.
(b) If he should travel with someone.
(c) Where Jack is going.
(d) If his brothers will wait for him.

3. Where did Jason work in his hometown?
(a) Fishing boat.
(b) A saw mill.
(c) In a shoe factory.
(d) A cannery.

4. What do some of the people that Jack meets along the way want to know?
(a) If his dog is for sale.
(b) If he wants to join their group.
(c) If he has a good map.
(d) If he has any extra food.

5. Why does the scene along the trail shock Jason?
(a) The cruelty to the animals, especially the horses.
(b) The number of people.
(c) That there are families with young children.
(d) That people are fighting over position on the trail.

6. How does Jason feel about Jack's offer?
(a) He is indifferent.
(b) Jason is shocked.
(c) Jason is curious.
(d) He is distrusting.

7. Where are Jason and his dog when they make it to the top of the answer to question #54?
(a) Victoria.
(b) Washington State.
(c) Canada.
(d) Oregon.

8. What is the name of the first lake Jason has to cross?
(a) Berryman's Turn.
(b) Pashaw.
(c) Lindeman.
(d) Crystal Lake.

9. What does Jason get at the river?
(a) A horse.
(b) A black eye.
(c) A dog.
(d) A big supply of venison.

10. Why is Jason beginning to feel more pressure about reaching his goal?
(a) His dog is getting old.
(b) He has no more money.
(c) His brothers are getting farther away.
(d) Winter is coming quickly.

11. What does Jason think is a daunting sight when Jason first sees them?
(a) The Black Crow switchback.
(b) Pike's Peak.
(c) The Stony Steps.
(d) The Golden Stairs.

12. Who does Jason spot in Skagway working for the head of law enforcement?
(a) Charles Bowers.
(b) Jim Foster.
(c) Captain Smith.
(d) Frank Barker.

13. What have some people resigned themselves to doing?
(a) Waiting out the winter and leaving in the spring.
(b) Starving to death.
(c) Going home.
(d) No finding any gold.

14. Why does Jason become sick on the trail?
(a) Food poisoning.
(b) Stomach virus.
(c) Summer pneumonia.
(d) Infected tooth.

15. To what does Jason compare himself as he walks?
(a) An ant.
(b) A bumblebee.
(c) His father.
(d) A salmon swimming up stream.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does this book begin?

2. What does Jason say about his parents?

3. Where does Jason go in Chapter 13?

4. What does Jason see in the river after he parts ways with his employers?

5. How long has Jason been in New York at the beginning of the book?

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