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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what pace has the protagonist been making his journey when he looks at his watch at 10:00 a.m. in Part II?
(a) 7 miles per hour
(b) 2 miles per hour
(c) 1 mile per hour
(d) 4 miles per hour

2. According to the narrator in Part I, “It was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible” what “over the face of things”?
(a) Pall
(b) Brightness
(c) Destiny
(d) Cheerfulness

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

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) On the ridge
(b) In the canyon
(c) At the forks
(d) By the lake

5. When was Jack London born?
(a) 1892
(b) 1876
(c) 1921
(d) 1907

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say the dog has learned and wants in Part II?

2. What is significant about the protagonist’s spittle crackling in Part I?

3. How many inches of snow cover the furrow of the last runners on the old sled-trail in Part II?

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

5. In literature, what refers to the author's providing of some background information to the audience about the plot, characters' histories, setting, and theme?

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