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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the protagonist do in order to get the dog to come with him when he departs from eating lunch in Part III?
(a) Claps
(b) Yells
(c) Fires a pistol
(d) Whistles

2. After falling through the ice, the protagonist believes this mishap will delay him for how long in reaching his destination?
(a) 2 hours
(b) 1 hour
(c) 20 minutes
(d) 45 minutes

3. What does the dog yearn toward as the man departs after eating his lunch in Part III?
(a) The fire
(b) A snow cave
(c) The cloth that the biscuits were wrapped with
(d) The forest

4. 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) Rising action
(b) Foreshadowing
(c) Exposition
(d) Climax

5. According to the narrator in Part V, there had been no what for weeks?
(a) Wind
(b) Clouds
(c) Rain
(d) Animals

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that will come later in the story?

2. The protagonist steps through the ice and wets himself how high in Part IV?

3. The dog’s instincts tell him that walking in this cold is not good and that it is the time to do what, in Part III?

4. How wide is the Yukon, according to the narrator in Part I?

5. Where did Jack London’s family settle in 1886?

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