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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 narrator say depresses the dog that travels with the protagonist in Part II?
(a) The man
(b) The dark
(c) The ice
(d) The cold

2. The only supply the protagonist is carrying with him on his journey is what?
(a) A sled
(b) A rifle
(c) His lunch
(d) A handgun

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

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

5. The narrator states in Part I, “North and south, as far as his eye could see, it was unbroken” what?
(a) Clouds
(b) Snowstorms
(c) Rain
(d) White

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The protagonist is described in Part I as being “quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in” what?

3. On top of the ice of the Yukon is how many feet of snow, according to the narrator in Part I?

4. What color are the protagonist’s beard and moustache?

5. 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?

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