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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word from Part IV means inanimate or dead?
(a) Meditation
(b) Jovial
(c) Lifeless
(d) Regal

2. In order to build a fire, the protagonist must do what in Part IV?
(a) Remove his moccasins
(b) Remove his mittens
(c) Remove his coat
(d) Remove his watch

3. 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?
(a) 0 degrees
(b) Fifty below
(c) Fifteen below
(d) Thirty below

4. Which word from Part IV means a large destructive fire?
(a) Apprehension
(b) Recoil
(c) Conflagration
(d) Wistful

5. What does the protagonist do in order to regain feeling in his feet in Part III?
(a) Pours warm water over them
(b) Puts his shoes on
(c) Stamps up and down
(d) Gets the dog to lay on them

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to an object, action, or idea that represents something other than itself?

2. The narrator claims that the “trouble with him” is that he is without what in Part I?

3. At what time exactly does the protagonist arrive at the forks of the creek in Part II?

4. The protagonist thinks to himself, “those old-timers were rather” what, in Part IV?

5. The protagonist steps through the ice and wets himself how high in Part IV?

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