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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the protagonist do in order to regain feeling in his feet in Part III?
(a) Gets the dog to lay on them
(b) Puts his shoes on
(c) Stamps up and down
(d) Pours warm water over them

2. What does the narrator refer to the protagonist in the story as?
(a) The fool
(b) The wanderer
(c) The explorer
(d) The man

3. The protagonist had been out in how many cold snaps before, according to the narrator in Part II?
(a) 11
(b) 5
(c) 8
(d) 2

4. What does the protagonist do in order to get the dog to come with him when he departs from eating lunch in Part III?
(a) Yells
(b) Fires a pistol
(c) Whistles
(d) Claps

5. What type of point-of-view in literature allows the reader to know everything that can be known about a character, including past history, thoughts, and feelings?
(a) Limited
(b) Invasive
(c) Omniscient
(d) Constructive

Short Answer Questions

1. The protagonist turns aside from what main trail to climb the high earth-bank to a “dim and little-traveled trail” in Part I?

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”?

3. The narrator states in Part I, “North and south, as far as his eye could see, it was unbroken” what?

4. The protagonist steps through the ice and wets himself how high in Part IV?

5. What type of dog travels with the protagonist?

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