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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is the dog that travels with the protagonist?
(a) White
(b) Black
(c) Brown
(d) Gray

2. Where did Jack London’s family settle in 1886?
(a) San Francisco, California
(b) Oakland, California
(c) Arcata, California
(d) Los Angeles, California

3. What is contained in the biscuits that the protagonist carries with him for lunch?
(a) Bacon
(b) Salmonberries
(c) Salmon
(d) Blueberries

4. Jack London's mother was the fifth and youngest child of what Pennsylvania Canal builder?
(a) Albert Thompson
(b) Marshall Wellman
(c) Jackson Wright
(d) Roger Stevens

5. 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) On the ridge
(b) At the forks
(c) By the lake
(d) In the canyon

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest?

2. When the protagonist reaches Henderson Creek in Part II, he knows he is how far from the forks?

3. What does the protagonist chew as he travels in the narrative?

4. At 12:00 p.m., the sun is at its brightest but it is too far in what direction to clear the horizon?

5. What word refers to “a newcomer to the land” in Part I?

(see the answer key)

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