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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In literature, what refers to the author's providing of some background information to the audience about the plot, characters' histories, setting, and theme?
(a) Climax
(b) Rising action
(c) Exposition
(d) Foreshadowing

2. When the protagonist gets up to leave after his lunch, he takes the creek trail in which direction in Part III?
(a) Up the left fork
(b) Up the center fork
(c) Up the right fork
(d) Downstream

3. What does the protagonist do to help the dog after it falls through the ice in Part II?
(a) Builds a fire
(b) Warms the dog against his bare skin
(c) Puts his mittens on the dog
(d) Helps to remove the ice from its paws

4. In literature, what refers to an incompatibility in how two or more individuals relate to one another?
(a) Relational conflict
(b) Climax
(c) External conflict
(d) Foreshadowing

5. The dog’s instincts tell him that walking in this cold is not good and that it is the time to do what, in Part III?
(a) Hide behind a windbreak
(b) Lay in the sun
(c) Curl up behind a tree
(d) Burrow in the snow

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states that the only caresses the dog has known were the caresses of what, in Part III?

2. Which word from Part III refers to something that threatens to cause evil, harm or injury?

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

4. What type of dog travels with the protagonist?

5. At what time exactly does the protagonist arrive at the forks of the creek in Part II?

(see the answer key)

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