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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the condition in which core temperature drops below the required temperature for normal metabolism and body functions?
(a) Insomnia
(b) Thermoregulation
(c) Hypothermia
(d) Asphyxiation

2. “The boys” had come over across the divide from what country, according to the narrator in Part I?
(a) Henderson Creek country
(b) Johnson Creek country
(c) Alberts Creek country
(d) Indian Creek country

3. The narrator claims in Part I that fifty degrees below zero means what degrees of frost?
(a) Fifty-odd
(b) Forty-odd
(c) Twenty-odd
(d) Eighty-odd

4. Naturalism was a literary movement that emerged in what decade?
(a) 1850s
(b) 1880s
(c) 1940s
(d) 1910s

5. What kind of socks does the protagonist wear in Part IV?
(a) French
(b) Mexican
(c) Canadian
(d) German

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Jack London born?

2. In literature, what refers to the author's providing of some background information to the audience about the plot, characters' histories, setting, and theme?

3. How many inches of snow cover the furrow of the last runners on the old sled-trail in Part II?

4. What in literature refers to the general attempt to depict subjects as they are considered to exist in third person objective reality, without embellishment or interpretation?

5. What had been the protagonist’s response when the old-timer told him how cold it could get in the country?

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