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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What location is 1,000 miles north along the “dark hair-line” of the main trail visible in Part I?
(a) Inuvik
(b) Whitehorse
(c) Nulato
(d) Beaver Creek

2. 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) 235
(b) 895
(c) 500
(d) 120

3. What type of dog travels with the protagonist?
(a) Burmese Mountain Dog
(b) Husky
(c) German Shepherd
(d) Newfoundland

4. What does the protagonist realize he’s forgotten to do when he stops to eat his lunch in Part III?
(a) Build a fire
(b) Drink water
(c) Say a prayer
(d) Build a shelter

5. What is the temperature, according to the narrator in Part II?
(a) 20 degrees
(b) 5 degrees
(c) Negative 10 degrees
(d) Negative 75 degrees

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Jack London die?

2. The narrator states in Part I, “North and south, as far as his eye could see, it was unbroken” what?

3. How many inches of snow cover the furrow of the last runners on the old sled-trail in Part II?

4. What is a literary figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is the same as another otherwise unrelated object?

5. The “dark hair-line” of trail visible in Part I is said to be the main trail that leads north 70 miles to what location?

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