People
Places
Events
Vocabulary
Anything Goes
100

This is the name that Chris adpoted during his travels

Alex Supertramp

Bonus - Explain Chris' concept of tramps...

100

the place the protagonist wants to travel to

Alaska

100

where the protagonist had his first job

McDonald's

100

a long wandering and event journey

odyssey

100

one of McCandless's favorite authors

Jack London, Leo Tolstoy, or Henry David Thoreau

200

a grandfather figure to the protagonist

Ron Franz

200

the protagonist's home state

Virginia

200

What college did Chris graduate from?

Emory University

200

different values, beliefs, and lifestyle from a "normal" society

counterculture

200

his method of transportation into Mexico

canoe

300

the couple that takes in the protagonist

Jan and Bob

300

the trail in Alaska where the body was found

Stampede Trail
300

the job the protagonist had at Carthage

grain elevator, mucking out warehouses, exterminating vermin, painting, scything weeds

300

love of people and nature, advocating for self-reliance and intuitive truth over societal conformity

Transcendentalism

300

This thing was abandoned in Arizona

Yellow Datsun

Bonus - Explain what led to his decision of abandoning his car.

400

This 'Jack of all trades' took Chris/Alex in, befriended him, and gave him a job

Wayne Westerberg

400

This was the number on the bus that Chris used as a campsite.

142

Bonus - Explain why this bus was left out in the wilderness.

400

How many pounds did Chris' body weigh when he was discovered dead in Alaska

67 pounds

400

migratory

nomadic

400

the instrument the Chris plays

piano

500

the sister of the protagonist

Carine McCandless

500

the town at the head of the Stampede Trail

Healy

500

Name 2 of the items Chris carried into the Stampede Trail

clothes, personal care items, camping gear, a tent, a small library of books, a ten-pound bag of rice, a book on local plants, and a used gun, boots he got from his ride in

500

a pen name

nom de plume

500

The name of Chris' charity

OXFAM

Bonus - How much did he donate and what is the charity's purpose?