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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word from Part V refers to a large mass of snow, detached from a mountain slope and sliding or falling suddenly downward?
(a) Frazil ice
(b) Igloo
(c) Icicle
(d) Avalanche

2. How far away does the dog run before halting and surveying the protagonist after he releases it in Part V?
(a) 85 feet
(b) 15 feet
(c) 40 feet
(d) 150 feet

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

4. Which word from Part III means anticipation of adversity or misfortune?
(a) Apprehension
(b) Conflagration
(c) Irony
(d) Peremptorily

5. In literature, what refers to the struggle occurring within a character's mind?
(a) Internal conflict
(b) External conflict
(c) Relational conflict
(d) Irony

Short Answer Questions

1. What other word does the narrator use for sulphur in Part V?

2. When the protagonist’s first fire is extinguished and he decides to build a second in Part V, he realizes that he will probably lose what?

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

4. Which word, used to describe the snow in Part V, means something that covers, envelops, or conceals?

5. After departing from eating his lunch, the protagonist travels along which body of water?

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