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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What refers to related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest?
(a) Metaphor
(b) Internal conflict
(c) Rising action
(d) Climax

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

4. The protagonist turns aside from what main trail to climb the high earth-bank to a “dim and little-traveled trail” in Part I?
(a) The Apache Trail
(b) The Alaska Trail
(c) The Arctic Trail
(d) The Yukon trail

5. At what time exactly does the protagonist arrive at the forks of the creek in Part II?
(a) 11:00 a.m.
(b) 9:00 a.m.
(c) 12:30 p.m.
(d) 6:30 a.m.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. The protagonist shoves the dog in order to make it do what in Part II?

5. The Yukon lay hidden under how many feet of ice, according to the narrator in Part I?

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