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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Foreshadowing
(c) Climax
(d) Exposition

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

3. What refers to an incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result?
(a) External conflict
(b) Metaphor
(c) Irony
(d) Symbol

4. How many inches of snow cover the furrow of the last runners on the old sled-trail in Part II?
(a) 12
(b) 3
(c) 5
(d) 9

5. When the protagonist reaches Henderson Creek in Part II, he knows he is how far from the forks?
(a) 10 miles
(b) 17 miles
(c) 2 miles
(d) 4 miles

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the protagonist do once he reaches the forks of the creek in Part II?

2. What color are the protagonist’s beard and moustache?

3. The narrator states in Part I that the protagonist is used to the lack of what?

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

5. At 12:00 p.m., the sun is at its brightest but it is too far in what direction to clear the horizon?

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