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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. St. Michael is described as being located by what body of water in Part I?
(a) The Bering Sea
(b) Cook Inlet
(c) The Gulf of Alaska
(d) The Arctic Ocean

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the protagonist chew as he travels in the narrative?

2. What type of dog travels with the protagonist?

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

4. According to the narrator in Part II, no man had come up or down the silent creek that the protagonist travels on in how long?

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

(see the answer key)

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