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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the dog yearn toward as the man departs after eating his lunch in Part III?
(a) The forest
(b) The cloth that the biscuits were wrapped with
(c) The fire
(d) A snow cave

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

3. Which word from Part V refers to a large mass of snow, detached from a mountain slope and sliding or falling suddenly downward?
(a) Avalanche
(b) Icicle
(c) Frazil ice
(d) Igloo

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

5. The protagonist steps through the ice and wets himself how high in Part IV?
(a) Halfway up the thighs
(b) To the waist
(c) Halfway to the knees
(d) To the elbows

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

3. What does the narrator refer to the protagonist in the story as?

4. Where was Jack London born?

5. Which word from Part III refers to something that threatens to cause evil, harm or injury?

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