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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The dog’s instincts tell him that walking in this cold is not good and that it is the time to do what, in Part III?
(a) Hide behind a windbreak
(b) Curl up behind a tree
(c) Burrow in the snow
(d) Lay in the sun

2. After falling through the ice, the protagonist believes this mishap will delay him for how long in reaching his destination?
(a) 45 minutes
(b) 1 hour
(c) 2 hours
(d) 20 minutes

3. What does the narrator refer to the protagonist in the story as?
(a) The man
(b) The fool
(c) The explorer
(d) The wanderer

4. The narrator says of the protagonist in Part II, “He was not much given to thinking, and just then particularly he had nothing to think about save that he would eat lunch” where?
(a) By the lake
(b) At the forks
(c) In the canyon
(d) On the ridge

5. What does the protagonist do once the fire is a success and he remembers the advice of the old-timer in Part IV?
(a) He laughs
(b) He cries
(c) He smiles
(d) He scowls

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the protagonist do once he reaches the forks of the creek in Part II?

2. What is a literary figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is the same as another otherwise unrelated object?

3. “The boys” had come over across the divide from what country, according to the narrator in Part I?

4. The narrator states in Part I that the protagonist is used to the lack of what?

5. According to the narrator in Part IV, “The old-timer had been very serious in laying down the law that no man must travel alone in the Klondike after” what?

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