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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word from Part IV means the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors?
(a) Ancestry
(b) Conflagration
(c) Wistful
(d) Success

2. What does the narrator refer to the dog as in Part III?
(a) A toil-slave
(b) A primal hunter
(c) A loyal companion
(d) A dumb beast

3. In literature, what are exaggerations to create emphasis or effect?
(a) Metaphors
(b) Foreshadowing
(c) Hyperboles
(d) Ironies

4. The protagonist’s mistake is having built his fire under what, in Part V?
(a) A waterfall
(b) An eagle nest
(c) A cliff
(d) A spruce tree

5. On top of the ice of the Yukon is how many feet of snow, according to the narrator in Part I?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 8
(d) 6

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the protagonist do in order to get the dog to come with him when he departs from eating lunch in Part III?

3. Jack London's mother was the fifth and youngest child of what Pennsylvania Canal builder?

4. What is the temperature, according to the narrator in Part II?

5. The protagonist steps through the ice and wets himself how high in Part IV?

(see the answer key)

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