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Into The Wild Vocab. List 1

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Stubbornly perverse or rebellious

a)

altruistic

b)

contumacious

c)

ideologue

d)

indolently

2.

traveling from place to place; working in one place for a comparatively short time and then moving on to work in another place

a)

altruistic

b)

egress

c)

indolently

d)

itinerant

3.

withered

a)

egress

b)

sere

c)

plebian

d)

contumacious

4.

A person who zealously advocates an ideology, which is any body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc. that guides an individual, institution, class, or large group

a)

sere

b)

egress

c)

indolently

d)

ideologue

5.

constituting a beginning; existing at or from the beginning

a)

plebian

b)

bourgeois

c)

primordial

d)

itinerant

6.

common, as opposed to sophisticated

a)

ideologue

b)

plebian

c)

bourgeois

d)

altruistic

7.

belonging to, or consisting of the middle class; conventional

a)

altruistic

b)

indolently

c)

bourgeois

d)

primordial

8.

being lazy; slothful

a)

altruistic

b)

sere

c)

indolently

d)

primordial

9.

unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others

a)

altruistic

b)

egress

c)

contumacious

d)

itinerant

10.

a means or place of going out; an exit

a)

ideologue

b)

egress

c)

bourgeois

d)

contumacious

11.

Due to his nomadic lifestyle, McCandless may seem _ but he is actually working hard to challenge himself.

(a)  

12.

Carthage, a town characterized by blue-collar workers and plainness, reflects the common decency of _ values.

(a)  

13.

Chris McCandless embraces his _ lifestyle, one at odds with the staid, settled life his parents hoped he would lead.

(a)  

14.

McCandless places great value on self-reliance and autonomy, but he views _ as an equally important virtue.

(a)  

15.

The _ desert surrounding the Grand Canyon is very different from the lush greenery down beside the river.

(a)  

16.

McCandless' _ from the desert is blocked by a flash flood. The path back to civilization is covered in water.

(a)  

17.

Krakauer's guides along McCandless' trail are _ Alaskans who do as they please regardless of rules or society's approbation.

(a)  

18.

McCandless is a strict _, though his ideals are difficult for him-or anyone else-to live up to.

(a)  

19.

Jack London's praise of the _ world and preference for pristine places makes a deep impression on McCandless.

(a)  

20.

McCandless rejects the materialistic, _ success of his parents, preferring to live up to a definition of success beyond mere middle-class comfort.

(a)