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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator refer to the protagonist in the story as?
(a) The man
(b) The explorer
(c) The fool
(d) The wanderer

2. In literature, what refers to the author's providing of some background information to the audience about the plot, characters' histories, setting, and theme?
(a) Rising action
(b) Climax
(c) Exposition
(d) Foreshadowing

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

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

5. What does the dog do when it has ice formed between its toes from falling into the water in Part II?
(a) Licks its legs
(b) Curls into a ball
(c) Runs away
(d) Tries to chew the ice out

Short Answer Questions

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

2. St. Michael is described as being located by what body of water in Part I?

3. When the protagonist reaches Henderson Creek in Part II, he knows he is how far from the forks?

4. What causes the “traps” that are along the protagonist’s path in Part II?

5. What refers to related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest?

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