Because he wanted the sense of being in unexplored territory, Chris refused to carry one of these.
What is a topographic map?
100
What Chris did with his money when he abandoned his car in the Mojave Desert near Lake Mead.
What is burned it?
100
Gave Chris a place to stay and a job in Carthage, South Dakota.
Who is Wayne Westerberg?
200
Reason why Chris came to see his father as immoral and a hypocrite.
What is, he had been a bigamist with his first wife and Chris's mother?
200
The only type of food Chris McCandless took with him on several long adventures in the wilderness.
What is a large bag of rice?
200
Chris probably died because of this.
What is toxic mold on wild potato seeds?
200
Finding this made Chris decide to paddle the Colorado River to the Gulf of California in Mexico.
What is a secondhand aluminum canoe?
200
She was something like a mother to Chris, and he helped her sell used books in Slab City.
Who is Jan Burres?
300
Chris's sister, she was always close to him as they were growing up.
Who is Carine McCandless?
300
His inability to preserve its meat gave Chris strong feelings of guilt and remorse.
What is the moose he killed?
300
If he had only known about this, Chris could have crossed the Teklanaika River easily in July, when he was still strong.
What is the cable and basket over the gorge? or What is the cable at the hydrological/scientific station?
300
Name of place where thousands of people spend the winter for free--but without water or electricity; also the home of Salvation Mountain.
What is Slab City or The Slabs?
300
This very religious old man taught him leather-working, offered to send him to college, and wanted to adopt Chris as his unofficial grandson. When he learned that Chris had died, he lost all faith in God.
Who was Ronald Franz?
400
Chris's mother's name.
What is Billie McCandless?
400
When abandoned in the desert, it contained Gianini guitar, a saucepan full of change, a football, a fishing rod, and twenty-five pounds of rice.
What is Chris's yellow Datsun? or What is Chris's car?
400
This British Victorian explorer, sometimes called The Man Who Ate His Shoes, is compared with Chris because they both starved to death (though Chris was alone, and this man had 138 people with him).
Who is Sir John Franklin?
400
Reason Chris abandoned his car near Lake Mead in the Mojave desert.
What is, it had been stuck in a flash flood, and Chris drained the battery trying to start it?
400
The last man to see Chris alive, he was able to persuade him to take a pair of rubber boots and a sandwich, but not to give up his plan to enter the wilderness.
Who is Jim Gallien?
500
Chris's father, a successful man Chris thought was too controlling.
Who is Walt McCandless (or Samuel Walter McCandless)?
500
Taught how by Ronald Franz, Chris made one of these showing symbols of important experiences he had during his adventures.
What is a leather belt?
500
This book taught Chris about the plants that local Indians ate to survive--but it could not teach him everything he needed to know.
What is Tanaina Plantlore?
500
Longest period of time Chris McCandless spent without talking to another human being on his Colorado River trip.
What is 36 days?
500
Driver who gave Chris a ride from the start of the Alaska Highway to Fairbanks, a trip of over 1000 miles; he begged Chris to call his family and let them know where he was.