Into the Wild Spring Semester Test

Chris McCandless was

• An explorer interested in visiting each continent
• A loner who wanted to experience the raw, untamed wilderness
• An antisocial person who despised all of his family
• A mentally disturbed person who took medication to control his disorder.

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McCandless’s explorations took him

• All over the world
• To each ocean and lake in American because he found peace near water
• To unplanned places along the way to his goal of Alaska
• All over America on a detailed and mapped out trip his final destination of Alaska

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Within his family, he was closest to

• His mother, Bille
• His sister, Carine
• His father, Walt
• He wasn’t close to any of his family members

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Read the sentences from page 4: “Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their lives. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that cares nothing for hope or longing” (Krakauer 4).

The sentences give the implied evidence that

• The author feels Alaska is a perfect place to find peace.

• The author feels that Alaska is the perfect place for misfits.

• The author feels that Alaska is a place to carry out your dreams

• The author feels that Alaska is ruthless

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Read the sentences from page 11: “Thompson, Samel, and Swanson, however, are contumacious Alaskans with a special fondness for driving motor vehicles where motor vehicles aren’t really designed to be driven” (Krakauer 11).

What is the meaning of the underlined word as it is used in the sentence?

• Skilled

• Pleasant

• Rebellious

• Happy

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What is the main evidence the author provides to support the idea that McCandless has disdain for so-called “normal” society rules and values:

• “He was the hardest worker I’ve ever seen” (Krakauer 18).
• “He set pretty high standards for himself” (Krakauer 18).
• “He used to… tell us these amazing stories of his travels (Krakauer 16).
• “He intended to invent an utterly new life for himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in the unfiltered experience” (Krakauer 23).

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Read this definition: Refute: verb 1. to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge. 2. to prove (a person) to be in error.

Which statement or example best refutes the notion that McCandless was “mentally disturbed?”

• The example Krakauer gives of a similar male named McCunn who “neglected to arrange for the pilot to fly him back to civilization at summer’s end” (81).

• The examples Krakauer gives of a similar male named Waterman who “committed himself to the Anchorage Psychiatric Institute but left after two weeks, convinced there was a conspiracy….then…he launched yet another solo attempt on Denali” (79).

• “Like Rosellini and Waterman, McCandless was a seeker and had an impractical fascination with the harsh side of nature” (Krakauer 85).

• “But unlike Waterman, McCandless wasn’t mentally ill. And unlike McCunn, he didn’t go into the bush assuming someone would automatically appear to save [him] (Krakauer 85).

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After writing about a similar story regarding a young male named Ruess, Krakauer writes, “Ruess was just as romantic as McCandless, if not more so, and equally heedless of personal safety (Krakauer 92).

The word romantic as it is used in the sentence, can best be described as:

• Loving

• Impractical

• Tender

• Fancy

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The journal McCandless kept in Mexico

• Got lost and wasn’t found until years later
• Revealed heavy drug use
• Showed he had lost track of his goal to make it to Alaska
• Was written in third person as if McCandless was an observer of his own life

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Initially, McCandless was trapped at his campsite

• By his determination to stay there and prove himself for an entire year
• By his broken leg
• By the surprising flooding of the river
• By his starvation

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