Vocabulary
The People
The Plot
Misc Questions
Misc Questions
100

This is the definition of the word dissuade.

What is to talk someone out of something?

100

This is the name of the protagonist of the book.

What is Christopher Johnson McCandless?

100

This is the kind of student and athlete Chris McCandless was.

What is excellent?

100

This is the state where McCandless wanted to go.

What is Alaska?

100
This is what McCandless wanted to "transcend."
What is modern life/a dependence on others?
200

This is the definition of the word bigamist.

What is a person who is in multiple relationships at once?

200
It is the author's name of Into the Wild.
What is Jon Krakauer?
200

This is how much money McCandless had in his savings account.

What is $24,000.00?

200
This is how McCandless wanted to live.
What is off of the land; simply with no modern trappings.
200
This is where McCandless grew up.
What is Washington D.C.?
300

This is the definition of the word precarious.

What is dangerous?

300

This is the name of Chris's sister.

What is Carine?

300

This is the organization that Chris gave his college fund to.

What is OXFAM?

300

This is where McCandless' body was found.

What is in an old bus.

300

This is the name McCandless used on his trip.

What is Alex / Alexander?

400

This is the definition of the word hubris.

What is excessive confidence?

400

This is the individual that Krakauer compares Chris to, due to similarity in their motivations, use of a pseudonym, and disappearance.

Who is Everett Reuss?

400

This is how Chris crossed the Teklanika river.

What is waded across?

400
This is how the author of the book feels about Chris McCandless.
What is respect; he thinks he's strange but brave?
400
This is how many weeks McCandless was out on his own in the wilderness.
What is sixteen?
500

This is the definition of the word progeny.

What is/are children?

500

This is the name of the writer that Chris McCandless really liked and who believed in a simple lifestyle.

Who is Leo Tolstoy?

500

This is what Stuckley asked Chris to do when he dropped him off in Fairbanks.

What is call his parents?

500

This is what McCandless wrote on the note in his car.

What is whoever can get it started can have it?
500

This is what happened in Billie's dream.

What is Chris was calling for help?