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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word from Part III means anticipation of adversity or misfortune?
(a) Irony
(b) Peremptorily
(c) Apprehension
(d) Conflagration

2. The protagonist is bound for an old claim on the left fork of what in To Build a Fire?
(a) Alberts Creek
(b) Johnson Creek
(c) Henderson Creek
(d) Indian Creek

3. The trek that the protagonist takes is expected to last how long?
(a) 14 hours
(b) 5 hours
(c) 9 hours
(d) 2 hours

4. Which word from Part IV means a large destructive fire?
(a) Apprehension
(b) Conflagration
(c) Recoil
(d) Wistful

5. 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?
(a) The lessons
(b) The actions
(c) The beauty
(d) The significances

Short Answer Questions

1. After departing from eating his lunch, the protagonist travels along which body of water?

2. The following sentence is an example of which literary technique: “It was as though he had just heard his own sentence of death”?

3. The day is described as having broken exceedingly how in the opening of To Build a Fire?

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

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

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