Into The Wild Quiz: Chapters 8-9
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How well did you understand chapters 8-9? Take the quiz and find out.
- 1.Gene Rossellini. . .
- A.
Experiments living like a Neolithic caveman.
- B.
Meets McCandless in a commune and discourages him to continue on his adventure.
- C.
Inexplicably stabs himself
- D.
Both A & C
- E.
All of the above
- 2.Which statement below is NOT true regarding John Waterman?
- A.
He is a mountain climber who ascended Mt. McKinley by the age of 16.
- B.
He wrote a book that taught McCandless about the local fauna.
- C.
He lost his sanity.
- D.
Most likely died after falling through a crevasse.
- 3.All of the following statements are true EXCEPT one about Carl McCunn. Identify the one false statement.
- A.
He hired a pilot to drop him into the remote Alaskan Bush to camp during the summer.
- B.
He failed to tell the pilot when to return for him.
- C.
He died by starvation.
- D.
He died by suicide.
- 4.Everett Ruess . . .
- A.
Is a hitchhiker and photographer.
- B.
Pursued beauty throughout the Southwest during the 1930s.
- C.
Disappears and his fate is never known for sure.
- D.
All of the above
- 5.Ruess and McCandless remind Krakauer of
- A.
The Vikings of Normandy
- B.
Nomadic Native American tribes of the Southwest
- C.
Ancient Irish Monks
- D.
None of the above
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