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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 protagonist do after finishing his lunch in Part III?
(a) Takes a nap
(b) Drinks some whiskey
(c) Lights a pipe
(d) Watches the clouds

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

3. The protagonist turns aside from what main trail to climb the high earth-bank to a “dim and little-traveled trail” in Part I?
(a) The Yukon trail
(b) The Arctic Trail
(c) The Apache Trail
(d) The Alaska Trail

4. The Yukon lay hidden under how many feet of ice, according to the narrator in Part I?
(a) 8
(b) 3
(c) 5
(d) 12

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?
(a) At the forks
(b) By the lake
(c) On the ridge
(d) In the canyon

Short Answer Questions

1. In literature, what refers to the struggle occurring within a character's mind?

2. What does the narrator refer to the dog as in Part III?

3. The narrator states in Part III that “there was no keen” what “between the dog and the man”?

4. When was Jack London born?

5. What is the ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries, even when the surrounding temperature is very different?

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