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Duplicate of Into the Wild [Ch. 1-8]
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Quiz questions & a few SAT Vocabulary items. #english11 #intothewild
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1
What kind of car did Chris drive?
Toyota
Honda
Datsun
Ford
2
McCandless practiced (which followed one of his life-long literary heroes)
chastity
Catholicism
spiritualism
Buddhism
3
In Ch. 8, Krakauer uses the lives of how many other men to draw comparisons with McCandless?
2
8
5
10
4
McCandless was constantly talking to Jan, and anyone else he met, about...
Alaska
his parents
his job with Wayne W.
the books he read
5
Who was the Mayor of Hippie Cove?
Chris McCandless
Jon Krakauer
Carl McCunn
Gene Rosellini
6
What did Chris steal from Crazy Ernie's farm?
a cow
a bicycle
a gun
food
7
BONUS #4: Chris traveled under the ____ of Alexander Supertramp.
girth
guise
fjord
husbandry
8
Wayne Westerberg says which of these things about Chris’s view on relationships?
"wrong if you think joy emanates only from human relations-"
"I knew I'd never see him again...didn't seem to bother him"
"He didn't take relationships lightly"
"...happiness needed to be shared."
9
BONUS #3: Chris seemed like a loner, yet he made friends along his journey. How ____-seeming!
incongruous
histrionic
gossamer
fortuitous
10
Chris made an instant connection with Wayne Westerberg’s…
neice
girlfriend
sister
mother
11
Why did Chris go to jail after he came back from Mexico?
He stole money from a local business.
He brought an illegal immigrant with him.
He tried to import tequila.
He had no identification.
12
McCandless was described by his various acquaintances as all of these adjectives
except
personable
outgoing
confused
stubborn
13
How old is Chris when Jim Gallien picks him up in Alaska?
24
18
29
32
14
Who, in these chapters, wanted to adopt Chris?
Jon Krakauer
Ron Franz
Wayne Westerberg
Jan Burres
15
What did the coroner determine the cause of Chris’s death to be?
suicide
cancer
frost bite
starvation
16
How did Chris lose his car?
in a flash flood
in a collision with another car
It ran out of gas and he had no money to fill the tank.
He gave it away to a homeless man.
17
WhenRon Franz heard that McCandless died, he...
moved back home
became an atheist
killed himself
went to Alaska
18
BONUS #2: Chris's parents must have constantly wondered why he decided to ___ them like he did.
hovel
forsake
expunge
harangue
19
BONUS #1: The way he wanders around, without anyone looking after him, Chris is a bit like a...
forbear
glutton
fawn
gamin
20
What was the general opinion given by native Alaskans of McCandless’s adventures?
He was well prepared for his adventure anddied by accident.
He was brave for taking on such a dauntingtask.
He was foolish to think he could live offthe land.
He was determined to succeed, and wastherefore expected to.
21
RonFranz was a talented
leatherworker
carpenter
cobbler
weaver
22
BONUS #5: The passage in which Krakauer describes Chris's body is quite ____.
idiosyncratic
fortuitous
harrowing
fickle
23
Jon Krakauer, at the end of Chapter 8, describes McCandless as a...
lost soul
sociopath
pilgrim
nutcase
24
BONUS #6: Reading Thoreau, Emerson, & London, Chris was a ____ for philosophy & literature.
forbear
fathom
glutton
hovel
25
While in Bullhead City, McCandless worked at...
Jack-in-the-Box
Wendy's
McDonald's
Burger King
26
McCandless’scamp in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park was just past the
“Heaven Help Us Hot Springs”
“Don’t Look Now Hot Springs”
“Hippie Haven Hot Springs”
“Oh-My-God Hot Springs”
