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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the condition in which core temperature drops below the required temperature for normal metabolism and body functions?
(a) Thermoregulation
(b) Hypothermia
(c) Insomnia
(d) Asphyxiation

2. When the protagonist reaches Henderson Creek in Part II, he knows he is how far from the forks?
(a) 10 miles
(b) 2 miles
(c) 4 miles
(d) 17 miles

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 Arctic Trail
(b) The Yukon trail
(c) The Apache Trail
(d) The Alaska Trail

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

5. The protagonist’s socks are described as being like what “halfway to the knees” in Part IV?
(a) Sheaths of iron
(b) A cast
(c) Clenched fists
(d) Quicksand

Short Answer Questions

1. What is significant about the protagonist’s spittle crackling in Part I?

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

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

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

5. Which word from Part III means anticipation of adversity or misfortune?

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