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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Race: Norton Sound; Nome.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the other musher's lead dog die on the trapping trail?
(a) He dies from a foot infection.
(b) He dies of old age.
(c) He is attacked by a moose.
(d) He dies of hypothermia.

2. What becomes Gary's mantra?
(a) Be true to yourself and to your dogs.
(b) It's not about winning, it's about how you play the game.
(c) If one person can do it, another person can do it.
(d) Slow and steady wins the race.

3. To what does Gary compare the intensity of his hunger in Nikolai?
(a) Not sleeping for a week.
(b) Being in love.
(c) Being freezing cold.
(d) Having bruised ribs.

4. How often should a dog's feet be examined while running the Iditarod?
(a) Every half hour.
(b) At the end of every day.
(c) Three times a day.
(d) In the morning and in the evening.

5. Outside Shageluk, where is the musher who belongs to the abandoned sled?
(a) In her sleeping bag.
(b) On a large boulder.
(c) Lying on the ground.
(d) Behind some bushes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these mountains must be crossed between Koyuk and Nome?

2. Which experience does Gary NOT share with the dogs in "Becoming Dog"?

3. According to Gary, what is "that which is cold"?

4. At Don's Cabin, why is the Doughnut man so angry?

5. In "First Snow", how much snow is on the ground?

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