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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) Sunny and warm
(c) Cold and gray
(d) Misty and wet

2. “The boys” had come over across the divide from what country, according to the narrator in Part I?
(a) Henderson Creek country
(b) Johnson Creek country
(c) Alberts Creek country
(d) Indian Creek country

3. When did the Klondike Gold Rush begin?
(a) 1897
(b) 1912
(c) 1845
(d) 1872

4. Jack London's mother was the fifth and youngest child of what Pennsylvania Canal builder?
(a) Albert Thompson
(b) Jackson Wright
(c) Roger Stevens
(d) Marshall Wellman

5. The narrator claims that the “trouble with him” is that he is without what in Part I?
(a) Imagination
(b) Money
(c) Hope
(d) Regret

Short Answer Questions

1. What word refers to “a newcomer to the land” in Part I?

2. What is significant about the protagonist’s spittle crackling in Part I?

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

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

5. The narrator claims in Part I that fifty degrees below zero means what degrees of frost?

(see the answer key)

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