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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the protagonist do in order to get the dog to come with him when he departs from eating lunch in Part III?
(a) Fires a pistol
(b) Claps
(c) Whistles
(d) Yells

2. The protagonist turns aside from what main trail to climb the high earth-bank to a “dim and little-traveled trail” in Part I?
(a) The Arctic Trail
(b) The Yukon trail
(c) The Alaska Trail
(d) The Apache Trail

3. In literature, what are exaggerations to create emphasis or effect?
(a) Metaphors
(b) Hyperboles
(c) Ironies
(d) Foreshadowing

4. On top of the ice of the Yukon is how many feet of snow, according to the narrator in Part I?
(a) 3
(b) 6
(c) 2
(d) 8

5. The protagonist shoves the dog in order to make it do what in Part II?
(a) Howl
(b) Lay down
(c) Walk behind him
(d) Walk ahead of him

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word from Part IV means situated at some distance away?

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

3. The protagonist experiences a pang of regret that he had not devised what object that Bud wears in cold snaps in Part II?

4. The narrator states in Part IV, “Well, here he was; he had had the accident; he was alone; and he had” what?

5. The narrator states in Part II that given that the freezing-point is 32 degrees above zero, the degrees of frost obtained as the protagonist travels is what?

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