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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. The narrator states in Part I, “North and south, as far as his eye could see, it was unbroken” what?
(a) White
(b) Clouds
(c) Rain
(d) Snowstorms

5. 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?
(a) Moosejaw
(b) Dawson
(c) Anchorage
(d) Fairbanks

Short Answer Questions

1. “The boys” had come over across the divide from what country, according to the narrator in Part I?

2. Jack London's mother was the fifth and youngest child of what Pennsylvania Canal builder?

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

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 states in Part I that the protagonist is used to the lack of what?

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