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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) The Yukon
(b) The frost
(c) Nature
(d) Hyperthermia

2. In describing the protagonist’s thought of death in Part VI, the narrator states: “Sometimes it pushed itself forward and demanded to be heard, but he thrust it back and strove to think of other things.” This is an example of what literary technique?
(a) Assonance
(b) Personification
(c) Alliteration
(d) Irony

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

4. Which word from Part III means anticipation of adversity or misfortune?
(a) Conflagration
(b) Irony
(c) Peremptorily
(d) Apprehension

5. How far away does the dog run before halting and surveying the protagonist after he releases it in Part V?
(a) 40 feet
(b) 15 feet
(c) 85 feet
(d) 150 feet

Short Answer Questions

1. Jack London's mother was the fifth and youngest child of what Pennsylvania Canal builder?

2. The narrator states in Part I, “North and south, as far as his eye could see, it was unbroken” what?

3. What is contained in the biscuits that the protagonist carries with him for lunch?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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