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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator in Part I, “It was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible” what “over the face of things”?
(a) Brightness
(b) Destiny
(c) Cheerfulness
(d) Pall

2. What is the point of view for the narrative of To Build a Fire?
(a) Third-person
(b) First-person
(c) Second-person
(d) Fourth-person

3. The narrator claims in Part I that fifty degrees below zero means what degrees of frost?
(a) Fifty-odd
(b) Twenty-odd
(c) Forty-odd
(d) Eighty-odd

4. The “dark hair-line” of trail visible in Part I is said to be the main trail that leads north 70 miles to what location?
(a) Moosejaw
(b) Dawson
(c) Anchorage
(d) Fairbanks

5. The narrator states in Part I, “North and south, as far as his eye could see, it was unbroken” what?
(a) Snowstorms
(b) White
(c) Rain
(d) Clouds

Short Answer Questions

1. On top of the ice of the Yukon is how many feet of snow, according to the narrator in Part I?

2. The day is described as having broken exceedingly how in the opening of To Build a Fire?

3. The protagonist is bound for an old claim on the left fork of what in To Build a Fire?

4. The Yukon lay hidden under how many feet of ice, according to the narrator in Part I?

5. What is contained in the biscuits that the protagonist carries with him for lunch?

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