Q 01/05

McCandless gave the $24,000 left in his savings after Emory to which charity?

A) UNICEF

B) The Red Cross

C) Oxfam

D) Greenpeace

Answer · why

C) Oxfam

Oxfam got the lot, more than $24,000 (about $59,000 in 2025 dollars), and McCandless then drifted, working as a farm-hand and restaurant food preparer...

Q 02/05

Which alias, its surname lifted from a Welsh tramp-poet's 1908 memoir, did McCandless go by?

A) Alexander Supertramp

B) Christopher Wanderlust

C) Alex the Nomad

D) Jack Freeman

Answer · why

A) Alexander Supertramp

Alexander Supertramp borrows from W. H. Davies, the Welsh poet whose 1908 book The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp recounted his years drifting across ...

Q 03/05

A flash flood disabled McCandless's Datsun, and he abandoned the car beside which desert reservoir?

A) Lake Powell

B) Lake Havasu

C) Lake Mohave

D) Lake Mead

Answer · why

D) Lake Mead

Lake Mead National Recreation Area is where the Datsun gave out at the end of his first summer on the road, and from there he carried on by hitchhikin...

Q 04/05

In Penn's film, McCandless leaves Carthage after his boss Wayne Westerberg is arrested for what?

A) Tax evasion

B) Satellite piracy

C) Drunk driving

D) Cattle rustling

Answer · why

B) Satellite piracy

Satellite piracy puts Westerberg behind bars in the film; the real Westerberg owned a grain elevator in Carthage, South Dakota, and McCandless went ba...

Q 05/05

Shooting which animal did McCandless call 'one of the greatest tragedies of my life' in his journal?

A) A moose

B) A caribou

C) A black bear

D) A Dall sheep

Answer · why

A) A moose

A moose, stalked and shot illegally on June 9, 1992, became the journey's great regret, and the journal entry reads 'I now wish I had never shot the m...