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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that will come later in the story?
(a) Hyperbole
(b) Irony
(c) Climax
(d) Foreshadowing

2. What location is 1,000 miles north along the “dark hair-line” of the main trail visible in Part I?
(a) Inuvik
(b) Nulato
(c) Beaver Creek
(d) Whitehorse

3. The narrator states in Part II that given that the freezing-point is 32 degrees above zero, the degrees of frost obtained as the protagonist travels is what?
(a) 62 degrees
(b) 107 degrees
(c) 40 degrees
(d) 88 degrees

4. When did the Klondike Gold Rush begin?
(a) 1845
(b) 1872
(c) 1912
(d) 1897

5. Which word from Part III refers to pedigree, genealogy or stock?
(a) Flounder
(b) Apathetic
(c) Ancestry
(d) Wistful

Short Answer Questions

1. “The boys” had come over across the divide from what country, according to the narrator in Part I?

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

3. What color is the dog that travels with the protagonist?

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

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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