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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 the point of view for the narrative of To Build a Fire?
(a) Fourth-person
(b) Second-person
(c) First-person
(d) Third-person

2. What is the ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries, even when the surrounding temperature is very different?
(a) Hyporegulation
(b) Hyperregulation
(c) Hydroregulation
(d) Thermoregulation

3. When the protagonist reaches the top of the steep bank on the little-traveled trail in Part I, he stops to catch his breath and excuses the action by doing what?
(a) Eating his lunch
(b) Petting the dog
(c) Listening for a sound
(d) Looking at his watch

4. After departing from his lunch break, the protagonist sees no signs of springs for how long?
(a) 10 minutes
(b) 30 minutes
(c) 1 hours
(d) 3 hours

5. “The boys” had come over across the divide from what country, according to the narrator in Part I?
(a) Alberts Creek country
(b) Johnson Creek country
(c) Henderson Creek country
(d) Indian Creek country

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to an obstacle located outside the protagonist, including nature, the supernatural, or society?

2. In literature, what are exaggerations to create emphasis or effect?

3. The protagonist experiences a pang of regret that he had not devised what object that Bud wears in cold snaps in Part II?

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

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

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