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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 protagonist intend on rubbing his feet with in Part IV?
(a) Branches
(b) Dirt
(c) Snow
(d) Pine needles

2. How many matches go up in flame at once in Part V?
(a) 124
(b) 12
(c) 45
(d) 70

3. The protagonist lights his second fire by touching a match to a small shred of what that he takes from his pocket in Part IV?
(a) Birch bark
(b) Oak leaves
(c) Seal blubber
(d) Cotton cloth

4. What is the temperature, according to the narrator in Part II?
(a) 5 degrees
(b) 20 degrees
(c) Negative 10 degrees
(d) Negative 75 degrees

5. When did the Klondike Gold Rush begin?
(a) 1912
(b) 1872
(c) 1845
(d) 1897

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say the dog has learned and wants in Part II?

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

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

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

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

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