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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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) Hydroregulation
(b) Hyperregulation
(c) Hyporegulation
(d) Thermoregulation

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?
(a) 3 weeks
(b) 1 week
(c) Two days
(d) A month

4. At what pace has the protagonist been making his journey when he looks at his watch at 10:00 a.m. in Part II?
(a) 7 miles per hour
(b) 1 mile per hour
(c) 2 miles per hour
(d) 4 miles per hour

5. What location is 1,000 miles north along the “dark hair-line” of the main trail visible in Part I?
(a) Whitehorse
(b) Beaver Creek
(c) Nulato
(d) Inuvik

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What word refers to “a newcomer to the land” in Part I?

3. What is a literary figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is the same as another otherwise unrelated object?

4. In literature, what refers to an incompatibility in how two or more individuals relate to one another?

5. “The boys” had come over across the divide from what country, according to the narrator in Part I?

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