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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The following sentence is an example of which literary technique: “It was as though he had just heard his own sentence of death”?
(a) Simile
(b) Assonance
(c) Extrapolation
(d) Allusion

2. Which word, describing the dog in Part V, means sadly pensive, especially about something yearned for?
(a) Wistful
(b) Flounder
(c) Recoil
(d) Conflagration

3. When the protagonist gets up to leave after his lunch, he takes the creek trail in which direction in Part III?
(a) Up the right fork
(b) Up the center fork
(c) Downstream
(d) Up the left fork

4. What is the principle form of conflict faced by the protagonist in To Build a Fire?
(a) Relational conflict
(b) External conflict
(c) Manipulation
(d) Internal conflict

5. The narrator states in Part V of the protagonist, “It struck him as curious that one should have to use his eyes in order to find out where” what were?
(a) His feet
(b) His knife
(c) His matches
(d) His hands

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the temperature, according to the narrator in Part II?

2. How far away does the dog run before halting and surveying the protagonist after he releases it in Part V?

3. What does the narrator say depresses the dog that travels with the protagonist in Part II?

4. What does the protagonist chew as he travels in the narrative?

5. At 12:00 p.m., the sun is at its brightest but it is too far in what direction to clear the horizon?

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