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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 nationality was the man who helped Paulsen?
(a) Eskimo.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Inuit.

2. How does Gary describe the experience of sledding the Iditarod in day three?
(a) It is like going back ten to twelve thousand years.
(b) Like becoming a cave painting.
(c) All of these.
(d) Like becoming a human uncluttered by civilization.

3. Which dog shreds their harness?
(a) Cookie.
(b) Storm.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Blue.

4. What wasn't one of the rumors that were abounding at Norton Sound?
(a) Someone was on a large cake of ice that drifted out to sea.
(b) Someone has gone insane and is making big circles out on the tundra, but no one will help lest they get disqualified.
(c) Someone has gone through the ice and the team was found wandering alone.
(d) A polar bear ate half a sled team and their musher froze to death.

5. What didn't Paulsen see the man do?
(a) Put a flask of whiskey in his sled.
(b) Put two sodas in his sled.
(c) Put three sodas in his sled.
(d) Put a flask of rum in his sled.

Short Answer Questions

1. On day seven, what is Paulsen offered that he turns down?

2. Why is it hard to catch a grouse unaware?

3. What couldn't Paulsen see without his headlamp in the dark?

4. On day eight, what does Paulsen compare crossing the interior of Alaska by dog team to?

5. What made the dogs nervous?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the 'person' who arrived to help Paulsen look like?

2. Why is Gary unworried about the rumors he hears on the mandatory twenty-four hour layover?

3. How does it feel, on day three, for Gary running the dogs?

4. What did this person do for Paulsen?

5. When did Storm pointedly drop the stick?

6. On day thirteen, what does Paulsen begin to see everywhere?

7. On day nine, who comes and offers Paulsen a proposition? What is this proposition?

8. How were the dogs strange with Gary?

9. What was it that Paulsen had feared? Which dog broke that fear and what did he do?

10. How cold had it been that week?

(see the answer keys)

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