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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to an obstacle located outside the protagonist, including nature, the supernatural, or society?
(a) External conflict
(b) Internal conflict
(c) Manipulation
(d) Relational conflict

2. The protagonist turns aside from what main trail to climb the high earth-bank to a “dim and little-traveled trail” in Part I?
(a) The Yukon trail
(b) The Apache Trail
(c) The Arctic Trail
(d) The Alaska Trail

3. What is the ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries, even when the surrounding temperature is very different?
(a) Hyporegulation
(b) Thermoregulation
(c) Hydroregulation
(d) Hyperregulation

4. The “dark hair-line” of trail visible in Part I is said to be the main trail that leads north 70 miles to what location?
(a) Fairbanks
(b) Anchorage
(c) Moosejaw
(d) Dawson

5. The narrator states in Part I that the protagonist is used to the lack of what?
(a) Birds
(b) Stars
(c) Sun
(d) Warmth

Short Answer Questions

1. The protagonist thinks to himself in Part IV, “Any man who was a man could” do what?

2. The protagonist moves on to feed the fire with branches the size of what in Part IV?

3. In literature, what are exaggerations to create emphasis or effect?

4. Where was Jack London born?

5. How wide is the Yukon, according to the narrator in Part I?

(see the answer key)

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