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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In literature, what refers to the author's providing of some background information to the audience about the plot, characters' histories, setting, and theme?
(a) Climax
(b) Rising action
(c) Exposition
(d) Foreshadowing

2. What are the shoes called that the protagonist wears in the narrative?
(a) Mukluks
(b) Moccasins
(c) Sneakers
(d) Clogs

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

4. Naturalism was a literary movement that emerged in what decade?
(a) 1940s
(b) 1850s
(c) 1910s
(d) 1880s

5. Which word from Part IV means the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors?
(a) Ancestry
(b) Conflagration
(c) Wistful
(d) Success

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in Part I, “It was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible” what “over the face of things”?

2. The narrator states in Part IV, “When it is seventy-five below zero, a man must not fail in his first attempt to” do what?

3. The only supply the protagonist is carrying with him on his journey is what?

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

5. What refers to the decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a literary plot?

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