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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the protagonist realize he’s forgotten to do when he stops to eat his lunch in Part III?
(a) Build a fire
(b) Drink water
(c) Say a prayer
(d) Build a shelter

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

3. In literature, what refers to the struggle occurring within a character's mind?
(a) External conflict
(b) Relational conflict
(c) Internal conflict
(d) Irony

4. The narrator says of the protagonist in Part II, “He was not much given to thinking, and just then particularly he had nothing to think about save that he would eat lunch” where?
(a) In the canyon
(b) At the forks
(c) By the lake
(d) On the ridge

5. The protagonist wonders if Mercury felt as he does doing what in Part VI?
(a) Trudging through the snow
(b) Crashing and burning
(c) Soaring like a bird
(d) Skimming over the earth

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in Part II, no man had come up or down the silent creek that the protagonist travels on in how long?

2. What kind of weapon does the protagonist carry?

3. Naturalism was a literary movement that emerged in what decade?

4. According to the narrator in Part I, “It was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible” what “over the face of things”?

5. Which word from Part III refers to pedigree, genealogy or stock?

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