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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The protagonist anticipates arriving to meet the boys at the campsite by what time in Part I?
(a) 3:30 p.m.
(b) 8:30 p.m.
(c) 10:00 p.m.
(d) 6:00 p.m.

2. What does the narrator say the dog has learned and wants in Part II?
(a) Water
(b) Food
(c) Companionship
(d) Fire

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

4. The narrator claims in Part I that fifty degrees below zero means what degrees of frost?
(a) Fifty-odd
(b) Eighty-odd
(c) Twenty-odd
(d) Forty-odd

5. What is a literary figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is the same as another otherwise unrelated object?
(a) Metaphor
(b) Foreshadowing
(c) Irony
(d) Hyperbole

Short Answer Questions

1. The day is described as having broken exceedingly how in the opening of To Build a Fire?

2. The “dark hair-line” of trail visible in Part I is said to be the main trail that leads south how many miles to the Chilcoot Pass?

3. According to the narrator in Part II, no man had come up or down the silent creek that the protagonist travels on in how long?

4. What refers to the condition in which core temperature drops below the required temperature for normal metabolism and body functions?

5. What is the point of view for the narrative of To Build a Fire?

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