Into the Wild Chapters 1-10 Quiz

1. Where was Chris McCandless’ body found?

• Floating in a river in the Alaskan wild

• In a sleeping bag in a bus in the Alaskan wild

• In a tent outside Anchorage

• In a cave where he was dragged and killed by an Alaskan grizzly bear

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1. What was the cause of Chris McCandless’ death?

• Starvation caused by a poisonous plant

• Mauled by a grizzly bear

• Shot accidentally by hunters

• Drowned in the river

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Who did Chris’s father work for?

• CIA

• FBI

• NASA

• NCIS

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1. What name did Chris McCandless adopt for himself after leaving college and setting out on his own?

• Alex Smith

• Chris Supertramp

• Alexander the Great

• Alex Supertramp

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1. Why did Chris abandon his yellow Datsun?

• a. Because he wanted to abandon all materialistic possessions and live off nature

  b. Because he was avoiding his parents who discovered where he was through a traffic ticket sent to their house

  c. Because he flooded the battery and it would

  d. None of the above not start

• Because he was avoiding his parents who discovered where he was through a traffic ticket sent to their house

• Because he flooded the battery/engine and it would

  not start

• None of the above

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1. What advice did Chris give to Ronald Franz in a letter?

• To not be stagnant and go out and see the world

• To avoid picking up hitch hikers because it was dangerous

• To get married again

• All of the above

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What happened to Chris in Mexico when he was canoeing?

• He was arrested by border patrol without an ID

• He ran in to Duck hunters that gave him directions

• He got lost on the vast canals that broke off in several directions

• He began talking about himself in the 3^rd person in his journal entries

• All of the above

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1. Chris McCandless was fired from one of his many jobs. Where was he fired from and why was he fired?

• Taco Bell because he spit in the food

• Chick fil a because a customer called him a conformist

• McDonald's because people complained about his hygiene

• The Gap because he was destroying clothes in protest to hunger around the world

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1. How did Ronald Franz find out about Chris McCandless’ death?

• A hitchhiker told him about his death because he heard about it in Outside magazine

• He read his obituary in the newspaper

• He found his body

• He read the issue of Outside magazine about the body of a young man found dead in the Alaskan wilderness

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1. Which of the following authors was influential in Chris McCandless’ life?

• Henry David Thoreau

• Jack London

• Leo Tolstoy

• All of the above

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