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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The only supply the protagonist is carrying with him on his journey is what?
(a) A handgun
(b) A sled
(c) A rifle
(d) His lunch

2. The narrator states in Part I that the protagonist is used to the lack of what?
(a) Birds
(b) Warmth
(c) Stars
(d) Sun

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

4. The narrator says of the protagonist in Part II, “He was not much given to thinking, and just then particularly he had nothing to think about save that he would eat lunch” where?
(a) At the forks
(b) In the canyon
(c) On the ridge
(d) By the lake

5. “The boys” had come over across the divide from what country, according to the narrator in Part I?
(a) Alberts Creek country
(b) Johnson Creek country
(c) Indian Creek country
(d) Henderson Creek country

Short Answer Questions

1. What location is 1,000 miles north along the “dark hair-line” of the main trail visible in Part I?

2. The protagonist experiences a pang of regret that he had not devised what object that Bud wears in cold snaps in Part II?

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

4. Where was Jack London born?

5. What refers to an incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result?

(see the answer key)

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