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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states in Part I that the protagonist is used to the lack of what?
(a) Stars
(b) Warmth
(c) Birds
(d) Sun

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

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

4. What time is it in the beginning of To Build a Fire?
(a) 11:15 a.m.
(b) 6:30 a.m.
(c) 4:45 a.m.
(d) 9:00 a.m.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The protagonist anticipates arriving to meet the boys at the campsite by what time in Part I?

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

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

5. The protagonist is bound for an old claim on the left fork of what in To Build a Fire?

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