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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In order to build a fire, the protagonist must do what in Part IV?
(a) Remove his mittens
(b) Remove his coat
(c) Remove his moccasins
(d) Remove his watch

2. What is a literary figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is the same as another otherwise unrelated object?
(a) Foreshadowing
(b) Metaphor
(c) Irony
(d) Hyperbole

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

4. The day is described as having broken exceedingly how in the opening of To Build a Fire?
(a) Cloudy and miserable
(b) Misty and wet
(c) Cold and gray
(d) Sunny and warm

5. The narrator states in Part IV, “Well, here he was; he had had the accident; he was alone; and he had” what?
(a) Kept his composure
(b) Triumphed over nature
(c) Been lucky
(d) Saved himself

Short Answer Questions

1. The protagonist thinks to himself in Part IV, “All a man had to do was” what “and he was all right”?

2. The protagonist is bound for an old claim on the left fork of what in To Build a Fire?

3. The protagonist shoves the dog in order to make it do what in Part II?

4. According to the narrator in Part IV, “The old-timer had been very serious in laying down the law that no man must travel alone in the Klondike after” what?

5. The protagonist’s mistake is having built his fire under what, in Part V?

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