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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jack London's mother was the fifth and youngest child of what Pennsylvania Canal builder?
(a) Jackson Wright
(b) Marshall Wellman
(c) Roger Stevens
(d) Albert Thompson

2. How wide is the Yukon, according to the narrator in Part I?
(a) 500 feet
(b) 1 mile
(c) 350 yards
(d) 1000 yards

3. Which of the following is a central theme in To Build a Fire?
(a) Religious persecution
(b) Forbidden love
(c) Corrupt politics
(d) Man versus nature

4. At what age did Jack London quit school to work in a cannery and as a longshoreman?
(a) 14
(b) 16
(c) 17
(d) 12

5. The protagonist agitates the tree above him every time he does what in Part V?
(a) Lays against the trunk
(b) Yells at the dog
(c) Saws off a branch
(d) Pulls a twig

Short Answer Questions

1. On top of the ice of the Yukon is how many feet of snow, according to the narrator in Part I?

2. Where did Jack London’s family settle in 1886?

3. The narrator states that the only caresses the dog has known were the caresses of what, in Part III?

4. What refers to an incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result?

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

(see the answer key)

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