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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is the dog that travels with the protagonist?
(a) Black
(b) White
(c) Gray
(d) Brown

2. The narrator states in Part I, “North and south, as far as his eye could see, it was unbroken” what?
(a) Clouds
(b) Snowstorms
(c) Rain
(d) White

3. Where did Jack London’s family settle in 1886?
(a) Arcata, California
(b) San Francisco, California
(c) Oakland, California
(d) Los Angeles, California

4. The “dark hair-line” of trail visible in Part I is said to be the main trail that leads north 70 miles to what location?
(a) Fairbanks
(b) Dawson
(c) Moosejaw
(d) Anchorage

5. What does the protagonist do to help the dog after it falls through the ice in Part II?
(a) Builds a fire
(b) Helps to remove the ice from its paws
(c) Warms the dog against his bare skin
(d) Puts his mittens on the dog

6. Where was Jack London born?
(a) San Francisco, California
(b) Oakland, California
(c) Los Angeles, California
(d) Arcata, California

7. What does the narrator refer to the protagonist in the story as?
(a) The fool
(b) The explorer
(c) The man
(d) The wanderer

8. The protagonist steps through the ice and wets himself how high in Part IV?
(a) Halfway up the thighs
(b) To the elbows
(c) To the waist
(d) Halfway to the knees

9. On top of the ice of the Yukon is how many feet of snow, according to the narrator in Part I?
(a) 6
(b) 8
(c) 3
(d) 2

10. What location is 1,000 miles north along the “dark hair-line” of the main trail visible in Part I?
(a) Nulato
(b) Whitehorse
(c) Inuvik
(d) Beaver Creek

11. In literature, what refers to the author's providing of some background information to the audience about the plot, characters' histories, setting, and theme?
(a) Foreshadowing
(b) Rising action
(c) Exposition
(d) Climax

12. What refers to an object, action, or idea that represents something other than itself?
(a) Rising action
(b) Symbol
(c) Foreshadowing
(d) Climax

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

14. The trek that the protagonist takes is expected to last how long?
(a) 5 hours
(b) 14 hours
(c) 2 hours
(d) 9 hours

15. What does the narrator say the dog has learned and wants in Part II?
(a) Fire
(b) Water
(c) Food
(d) Companionship

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest?

2. When the protagonist gets up to leave after his lunch, he takes the creek trail in which direction in Part III?

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

4. When did the Klondike Gold Rush begin?

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

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