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Into the Wild Test Exam Questions With
Correct Answers.
Who is Alex? - answer✔An alias Chris created to use when hitchhiking- chris's new identity
Who is Jim Gallien, and how did he meet McCandless? - answer✔How did he meet: Spotted
Chris as a hitchhiker (Chris introduced himself as Alex)
Jim: union electrician
Good hunter and woodsman
The guy who drops Chris at the start of his journey
What was Gallien's assessment of McCandless? - answer✔Sees that Chris does not have enough
supplies that will last him several months
What kind of advice did Gallien give McCandless? - answer✔He said the hunting was not easy
where is was going - going days without hunting (trying to scare Chris out of it)
Gallien told Chris to get hunting license
What did Gallien give McCandless? - answer✔Rubber boots
Phone number
Plus the food Gallien's wife made for him
What was considered to be the cause of Chris McCandless's death? - answer✔Starvation/Potato
Seeds
Why did McCandless leave Carthage? - answer✔Because Westerberg was charged with a felony
and his business was temporarily stopped, and since Chris needed money to live, he left.
Illegally sold black box and they scramble satellite television boxes (allow ppl watch satellite
without paying)
What was McCandless's financial background? - answer✔Middle class (well off) in Virginia
How did McCandless's parents find out that he had left Atlanta? - answer✔The room was empty
and had a rent sign and manager said he had moved out in June (all the letters he had sent been
returned)
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What change did McCandless make that symbolized the new life expected to build after he left
Atlanta? - answer✔He changed his name as an official way of showing himself and others that
he was no longer Chris McCandless, just a small entity in a commercialized world, but now Alex
Supertramp, master of his own destiny, free to do what his will demand.
What was the motivation for abandoning the Datsun, and why was the find of the car important?
- answer✔Datsun engine got ruined from flood and wouldn't work
Important bc it helped w police work
For what purpose did the rangers decide to use the Datsun? - answer✔Datsun was used to make
arrests for drug dealers
How did McCandless's parents learn where he was, and what did they do with the information? -
answer✔He had been ticketed for hitchhiking and gave the cops that his was where was his
parents lived for place of residence
THEN got a private investigator Peter
What did McCandless's parents learn form the investigator? - answer✔Chris had given away
college funds and learned abandoned car and confused them
What did McCandless buy when he was in Topock, Arizona, and where did he get the money? -
answer✔Old metal Canoe
Westerberg $
How did McCandless get to the ocean? - answer✔Duck hunters drop in at gulf of california --
traveling south
What did McCandless retrieve when he returned to the Detrital Wash? - answer✔Retrieves his
virginia plates and some of belongings
What kind of life did McCandless lead in Bullhead City? - answer✔Stayed in bull head city-- for
the longest time
Thinks about settling down
Had full time job at McDonalds
Saving accounted opened in his name
Went back to going to Chris + security number
How did the other McDonald's employees regard McCandless? - answer✔Thing about socks and
that he always wore shoes without socks
But mcdonald's made him wear them
Into the Wild Test Exam Questions With
Correct Answers.
Who is Alex? - answer✔An alias Chris created to use when hitchhiking- chris's new identity
Who is Jim Gallien, and how did he meet McCandless? - answer✔How did he meet: Spotted
Chris as a hitchhiker (Chris introduced himself as Alex)
Jim: union electrician
Good hunter and woodsman
The guy who drops Chris at the start of his journey
What was Gallien's assessment of McCandless? - answer✔Sees that Chris does not have enough
supplies that will last him several months
What kind of advice did Gallien give McCandless? - answer✔He said the hunting was not easy
where is was going - going days without hunting (trying to scare Chris out of it)
Gallien told Chris to get hunting license
What did Gallien give McCandless? - answer✔Rubber boots
Phone number
Plus the food Gallien's wife made for him
What was considered to be the cause of Chris McCandless's death? - answer✔Starvation/Potato
Seeds
Why did McCandless leave Carthage? - answer✔Because Westerberg was charged with a felony
and his business was temporarily stopped, and since Chris needed money to live, he left.
Illegally sold black box and they scramble satellite television boxes (allow ppl watch satellite
without paying)
What was McCandless's financial background? - answer✔Middle class (well off) in Virginia
How did McCandless's parents find out that he had left Atlanta? - answer✔The room was empty
and had a rent sign and manager said he had moved out in June (all the letters he had sent been
returned)
, ©THEBRIGHTSTARS 2024/2025
What change did McCandless make that symbolized the new life expected to build after he left
Atlanta? - answer✔He changed his name as an official way of showing himself and others that
he was no longer Chris McCandless, just a small entity in a commercialized world, but now Alex
Supertramp, master of his own destiny, free to do what his will demand.
What was the motivation for abandoning the Datsun, and why was the find of the car important?
- answer✔Datsun engine got ruined from flood and wouldn't work
Important bc it helped w police work
For what purpose did the rangers decide to use the Datsun? - answer✔Datsun was used to make
arrests for drug dealers
How did McCandless's parents learn where he was, and what did they do with the information? -
answer✔He had been ticketed for hitchhiking and gave the cops that his was where was his
parents lived for place of residence
THEN got a private investigator Peter
What did McCandless's parents learn form the investigator? - answer✔Chris had given away
college funds and learned abandoned car and confused them
What did McCandless buy when he was in Topock, Arizona, and where did he get the money? -
answer✔Old metal Canoe
Westerberg $
How did McCandless get to the ocean? - answer✔Duck hunters drop in at gulf of california --
traveling south
What did McCandless retrieve when he returned to the Detrital Wash? - answer✔Retrieves his
virginia plates and some of belongings
What kind of life did McCandless lead in Bullhead City? - answer✔Stayed in bull head city-- for
the longest time
Thinks about settling down
Had full time job at McDonalds
Saving accounted opened in his name
Went back to going to Chris + security number
How did the other McDonald's employees regard McCandless? - answer✔Thing about socks and
that he always wore shoes without socks
But mcdonald's made him wear them
