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

2. 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?
(a) The beauty
(b) The actions
(c) The lessons
(d) The significances

3. What word refers to “a newcomer to the land” in Part I?
(a) Chechaquo
(b) Nenukto
(c) Nuoktuk
(d) Chenutok

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

5. When was Jack London born?
(a) 1892
(b) 1876
(c) 1921
(d) 1907

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Jack London’s family settle in 1886?

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. “The boys” had come over across the divide from what country, according to the narrator 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. What is significant about the protagonist’s spittle crackling in Part I?

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