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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest?
(a) Climax
(b) Rising action
(c) Internal conflict
(d) Metaphor

2. The narrator states in Part I that the protagonist is used to the lack of what?
(a) Sun
(b) Stars
(c) Warmth
(d) Birds

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

4. 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?
(a) 88 degrees
(b) 62 degrees
(c) 40 degrees
(d) 107 degrees

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On top of the ice of the Yukon is how many feet of snow, according to the narrator in Part I?

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

3. The protagonist is described in Part I as being “quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in” what?

4. What is significant about the protagonist’s spittle crackling in Part I?

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

(see the answer key)

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