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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 causes the warm gentle feeling that Paulsen gets at the checkpoint on day eleven?
(a) All of these.
(b) Being surrounded by his dogs.
(c) Being welcomed by total strangers.
(d) Being welcomed by the ghosts of the graveyard.

2. How old approximately, was the fawn?
(a) Maybe a month old.
(b) Maybe one or two weeks old.
(c) Maybe two or three weeks old.
(d) Maybe a week old.

3. What did Gary learn from challenging his lead dog's sense of direction?
(a) That the lead dog is always right.
(b) That the lead dog will bite.
(c) That the lead dog will get the musher lost to prove a point.
(d) All of these.

4. What characteristics were a part of Storm?
(a) All of these.
(b) Peacefulness.
(c) Loyalty.
(d) Toughness.

5. Why did the boy grab Paulsen's team?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) He wanted to tell the kids at school his family hosted a musher.
(c) Both of these.
(d) He wanted the team to stay at his house so he could learn about dogs and sledding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the word sound like in Paulsen's friend's mouth?

2. What was the glowing object?

3. How many times did Fred attack the electric fence wire?

4. What was the partial solution to the flies that Paulsen discovered accidentally?

5. What had taken out the trail?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Cookie knowingly take the team over an edge for?

2. What did this person do for Paulsen?

3. What does Gary say the dogs told him while they were in the gully?

4. How were the dogs strange with Gary?

5. What was Gary worried about in day four?

6. How cold had it been that week?

7. What will Gary always blame himself for?

8. What are the hills dotted with that Gary sees on day nine?

9. What happens to the dogs when they get tangled up and turn inwards, and what was the risk created?

10. What had Paulsen never seen in a deer as he did that day on the lake alone?

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