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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. How many other teams follow Gary onto the trapping trail?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Twenty-seven.
(c) One.
(d) Six.

2. About how many dog booties would be needed for one team for the entire race?
(a) Eleven hundred.
(b) Four pairs a day for each dog.
(c) Six hundred.
(d) Two thousand.

3. Where does Gary sleep after his skunk encounter?
(a) In the kennel.
(b) In the tub.
(c) In the bed.
(d) On the couch.

4. What does Gary NOT do when he reaches the Finger Lake checkpoint?
(a) Mend harnesses.
(b) Check the dogs' toes.
(c) Rub the dogs' shoulders.
(d) Sleep.

5. What happens when the team gets to the end of the driveway to run in the first snow of the season?
(a) Cookie turns onto the old trapline trail.
(b) Gary steers the team to the left.
(c) A moose appears.
(d) Gary is thrown off the sled.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "presence" that Gary feels in the Prelude?

2. While training for his first race, why doesn't Gary sleep well?

3. According to Gary, what is the most important tenet of running dogs?

4. What does it mean when a musher comes from "Down Below"?

5. What becomes Gary's mantra?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Don's Cabin," how does Gary describe the bond between the musher and his/her dogs?

2. Why is Gary horrified when he first views Dalzell Gorge?

3. Why does the race start in downtown Anchorage?

4. In "Major Wrecks," what happens when Gary does a training run with an old bicycle pulled by five dogs?

5. Describe Don's Cabin. How did it get its name?

6. Why is Gary in a doctor's office at the end of the book?

7. What have the mushers NOT been told about Happy Canyon?

8. In the Prelude, what warning signs of the coming storm does Gary miss?

9. In "An End," what is the difference between Gary's version of a normal life and his doctor's version?

10. How does the snow accumulate in northern Minnesota?

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