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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is contained in the biscuits that the protagonist carries with him for lunch?
(a) Bacon
(b) Blueberries
(c) Salmonberries
(d) Salmon

2. What is significant about the protagonist’s spittle crackling in Part I?
(a) It is blue
(b) It doesn’t leave his lips
(c) It cracks mid-air
(d) It doesn’t melt

3. The day is described as having broken exceedingly how in the opening of To Build a Fire?
(a) Cold and gray
(b) Cloudy and miserable
(c) Misty and wet
(d) Sunny and warm

4. What is the point of view for the narrative of To Build a Fire?
(a) Second-person
(b) Third-person
(c) Fourth-person
(d) First-person

5. Where was Jack London born?
(a) Oakland, California
(b) Arcata, California
(c) Los Angeles, California
(d) San Francisco, California

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When the protagonist reaches the top of the steep bank on the little-traveled trail in Part I, he stops to catch his breath and excuses the action by doing what?

4. The “dark hair-line” of trail visible in Part I is said to be the main trail that leads north 70 miles to what location?

5. The Yukon lay hidden under how many feet of ice, according to the narrator in Part I?

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