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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The protagonist is described in Part I as being “quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in” what?
(a) The beauty
(b) The significances
(c) The lessons
(d) The actions

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

3. What causes the “traps” that are along the protagonist’s path in Part II?
(a) The sun
(b) Springs
(c) Branches
(d) Rocks

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. Which word from Part IV means the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors?
(a) Success
(b) Ancestry
(c) Wistful
(d) Conflagration

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the protagonist realize he’s forgotten to do when he stops to eat his lunch in Part III?

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

3. Which word from Part III refers to pedigree, genealogy or stock?

4. Where is the old-timer from that the protagonist recalls in Part III?

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

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