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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which word from Part III refers to pedigree, genealogy or stock?
(a) Apathetic
(b) Flounder
(c) Ancestry
(d) Wistful

3. Which word from Part IV means inanimate or dead?
(a) Meditation
(b) Jovial
(c) Lifeless
(d) Regal

4. After departing from his lunch break, the protagonist sees no signs of springs for how long?
(a) 3 hours
(b) 10 minutes
(c) 1 hours
(d) 30 minutes

5. How does the protagonist eventually separate the matches in Part V?
(a) With his nose
(b) With the dogs help
(c) With his teeth
(d) By blowing on them

Short Answer Questions

1. The Yukon lay hidden under how many feet of ice, according to the narrator in Part I?

2. What type of point-of-view in literature allows the reader to know everything that can be known about a character, including past history, thoughts, and feelings?

3. Which word from Part V refers to a large mass of snow, detached from a mountain slope and sliding or falling suddenly downward?

4. What word refers to “a newcomer to the land” in Part I?

5. When the protagonist reaches Henderson Creek in Part II, he knows he is how far from the forks?

(see the answer key)

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