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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator refer to the protagonist in the story as?
(a) The explorer
(b) The fool
(c) The man
(d) The wanderer

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

4. What word refers to “a newcomer to the land” in Part I?
(a) Chenutok
(b) Nuoktuk
(c) Nenukto
(d) Chechaquo

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What time is it in the beginning of To Build a Fire?

2. The protagonist is bound for an old claim on the left fork of what in To Build a Fire?

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

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

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

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