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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gary think he was hallucinating, but wasn't?

2. What is the command for the team to go right?

3. What was the glowing object?

4. At what point is there a mandatory twenty-four hour layover?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did the stump glow, did Paulsen find out later?

4. What was Gary worried about in day four?

5. What is the difference with hallucinations during the race?

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

7. What tradition did Storm start, and what did it come to mean?

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

9. What did this person do for Paulsen?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the qualities that make a good sled dog. How are these qualities that Paulsen prefers and talks about more often than the dogs that don't possess these qualities? What are the least desirable qualities in a sled dog?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss dog sledding in the media and popular culture. What seems to be the social attitude towards dog sledding? How does this vary by the environment in which these people reside?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Paulsen's view of hunting changed, and the stimuli for this change. How does this affect his life later on? Does it make his life easier or more difficult, and how?

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