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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. St. Michael is described as being located by what body of water in Part I?
(a) Cook Inlet
(b) The Bering Sea
(c) The Arctic Ocean
(d) The Gulf of Alaska

3. The narrator claims in Part I that fifty degrees below zero means what degrees of frost?
(a) Eighty-odd
(b) Fifty-odd
(c) Forty-odd
(d) Twenty-odd

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

5. How wide is the Yukon, according to the narrator in Part I?
(a) 350 yards
(b) 1000 yards
(c) 1 mile
(d) 500 feet

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Part I that the protagonist is used to the lack of what?

2. The protagonist turns aside from what main trail to climb the high earth-bank to a “dim and little-traveled trail” in Part I?

3. When did the Klondike Gold Rush begin?

4. 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?

5. The narrator claims that the “trouble with him” is that he is without what in Part I?

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