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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to an incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result?
(a) Symbol
(b) Metaphor
(c) External conflict
(d) Irony

2. St. Michael is described as being located by what body of water in Part I?
(a) Cook Inlet
(b) The Arctic Ocean
(c) The Bering Sea
(d) The Gulf of Alaska

3. The “dark hair-line” of trail visible in Part I is said to be the main trail that leads south how many miles to the Chilcoot Pass?
(a) 500
(b) 895
(c) 235
(d) 120

4. The day is described as having broken exceedingly how in the opening of To Build a Fire?
(a) Sunny and warm
(b) Misty and wet
(c) Cloudy and miserable
(d) Cold and gray

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in Part II, no man had come up or down the silent creek that the protagonist travels on in how long?

2. What is the ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries, even when the surrounding temperature is very different?

3. What does the narrator refer to the dog as in Part III?

4. The protagonist thinks to himself in Part IV, “All a man had to do was” what “and he was all right”?

5. What causes the “traps” that are along the protagonist’s path in Part II?

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