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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The protagonist anticipates arriving to meet the boys at the campsite by what time in Part I?
(a) 6:00 p.m.
(b) 10:00 p.m.
(c) 3:30 p.m.
(d) 8:30 p.m.

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

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

5. What does the dog do when it has ice formed between its toes from falling into the water in Part II?
(a) Runs away
(b) Curls into a ball
(c) Tries to chew the ice out
(d) Licks its legs

Short Answer Questions

1. “The boys” had come over across the divide from what country, 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. What word refers to “a newcomer to the land” in Part I?

4. St. Michael is described as being located by what body of water in Part I?

5. When did the Klondike Gold Rush begin?

(see the answer key)

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