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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Running, Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gary like most about the woodstove?
(a) Coming in from the cold and warming his hands.
(b) The smell.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The space it takes up.

2. How many miles is the Iditarod from start to finish?
(a) Over twelve hundred miles.
(b) Over eleven hundred miles.
(c) Over two thousand miles.
(d) Over twenty-one hundred miles.

3. What did the same person do later?
(a) Helped the lead dog out of a drift.
(b) Helped Paulsen get warm by helping him build a fire.
(c) Helped lead the lead dog to civilization.
(d) Kept Paulsen from wandering away from his sled.

4. The weather never rose above what temperature?
(a) Thirty below.
(b) Twenty below.
(c) Ten below.
(d) Forty below.

5. What did Gary begin training his dogs for?
(a) The Caledonia Classic sled race.
(b) The Iditarod in Alaska.
(c) The Cannington dog sled race.
(d) The Yukon Quest in the Yukon Territory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gary define as "serious cold"?

2. Why was it impossible to not be near this hen's brood?

3. What did the man put in the sled with Paulsen?

4. What was the difference between Columbia and Olaf?

5. What did Gary call the games the dogs would play with these?

(see the answer key)

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