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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) 1 week
(b) 3 weeks
(c) Two days
(d) A month

2. When the protagonist reaches Henderson Creek in Part II, he knows he is how far from the forks?
(a) 10 miles
(b) 2 miles
(c) 17 miles
(d) 4 miles

3. What refers to an incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result?
(a) Irony
(b) External conflict
(c) Symbol
(d) Metaphor

4. St. Michael is described as being located by what body of water in Part I?
(a) The Arctic Ocean
(b) The Bering Sea
(c) Cook Inlet
(d) The Gulf of Alaska

5. What is the point of view for the narrative of To Build a Fire?
(a) Fourth-person
(b) First-person
(c) Third-person
(d) Second-person

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. What does the protagonist chew as he travels in the narrative?

3. 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?

4. The narrator states of the protagonist in Part VI, “This time the shivering came more quickly upon the man. He was losing in his battle with” what?

5. In what year did Jack London die?

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