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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is significant about the protagonist’s spittle crackling in Part I?
(a) It doesn’t melt
(b) It doesn’t leave his lips
(c) It is blue
(d) It cracks mid-air

3. Which word from Part IV means situated at some distance away?
(a) Remote
(b) Proximity
(c) Urban
(d) Latitude

4. The narrator states in Part II that given that the freezing-point is 32 degrees above zero, the degrees of frost obtained as the protagonist travels is what?
(a) 107 degrees
(b) 62 degrees
(c) 40 degrees
(d) 88 degrees

5. According to the narrator in Part I, “It was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible” what “over the face of things”?
(a) Pall
(b) Cheerfulness
(c) Brightness
(d) Destiny

Short Answer Questions

1. The protagonist is described in Part I as being “quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in” what?

2. The narrator claims that the “trouble with him” is that he is without what in Part I?

3. Part V of the story marks what point in the plot structure?

4. Which word from Part IV means to draw back; start or shrink back, as in alarm, horror, or disgust?

5. When the protagonist’s first fire is extinguished and he decides to build a second in Part V, he realizes that he will probably lose what?

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