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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the protagonist do in order to regain feeling in his feet in Part III?
(a) Pours warm water over them
(b) Stamps up and down
(c) Puts his shoes on
(d) Gets the dog to lay on them

2. What does the narrator refer to the protagonist in the story as?
(a) The explorer
(b) The wanderer
(c) The fool
(d) The man

3. What does the protagonist chew as he travels in the narrative?
(a) Tobacco
(b) Gum
(c) Leather
(d) Manzanita leaves

4. Naturalism was a literary movement that emerged in what decade?
(a) 1850s
(b) 1880s
(c) 1910s
(d) 1940s

5. What does the protagonist do to help the dog after it falls through the ice in Part II?
(a) Builds a fire
(b) Warms the dog against his bare skin
(c) Puts his mittens on the dog
(d) Helps to remove the ice from its paws

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says of the protagonist in Part II, “He was not much given to thinking, and just then particularly he had nothing to think about save that he would eat lunch” where?

2. After departing from eating his lunch, the protagonist travels along which body of water?

3. According to the narrator in Part I, “It was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible” what “over the face of things”?

4. 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?

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

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