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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Jack London die?
(a) 1944
(b) 1969
(c) 1957
(d) 1916

2. The dog’s instincts tell him that walking in this cold is not good and that it is the time to do what, in Part III?
(a) Hide behind a windbreak
(b) Burrow in the snow
(c) Lay in the sun
(d) Curl up behind a tree

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

4. The protagonist thinks to himself in Part IV, “Any man who was a man could” do what?
(a) Mine gold
(b) Travel alone
(c) Build a fire
(d) Survive a storm

5. 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) Two days
(b) A month
(c) 1 week
(d) 3 weeks

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word from Part IV means to be grateful or thankful?

2. The narrator claims that the “trouble with him” is that he is without what in Part I?

3. The protagonist begins by feeding the fire with twigs the size of what in Part IV?

4. The narrator states in Part IV, “When it is seventy-five below zero, a man must not fail in his first attempt to” do what?

5. The protagonist had been out in how many cold snaps before, according to the narrator in Part II?

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