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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is significant about the protagonist’s spittle crackling in Part I?
(a) It cracks mid-air
(b) It is blue
(c) It doesn’t melt
(d) It doesn’t leave his lips

2. Which word from Part III refers to pedigree, genealogy or stock?
(a) Ancestry
(b) Apathetic
(c) Flounder
(d) Wistful

3. How many inches of snow cover the furrow of the last runners on the old sled-trail in Part II?
(a) 12
(b) 5
(c) 3
(d) 9

4. The protagonist anticipates arriving to meet the boys at the campsite by what time in Part I?
(a) 8:30 p.m.
(b) 10:00 p.m.
(c) 3:30 p.m.
(d) 6:00 p.m.

5. In literature, what refers to an incompatibility in how two or more individuals relate to one another?
(a) Relational conflict
(b) External conflict
(c) Climax
(d) Foreshadowing

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the protagonist do once the fire is a success and he remembers the advice of the old-timer in Part IV?

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

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

4. What refers to an incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result?

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

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