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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states in Part III that “there was no keen” what “between the dog and the man”?
(a) Ability
(b) Reality
(c) Intimacy
(d) Understanding

2. The narrator says of the protagonist in Part II, “He was not much given to thinking, and just then particularly he had nothing to think about save that he would eat lunch” where?
(a) In the canyon
(b) At the forks
(c) By the lake
(d) On the ridge

3. What does the protagonist do in order to get the dog to come with him when he departs from eating lunch in Part III?
(a) Claps
(b) Whistles
(c) Fires a pistol
(d) Yells

4. What type of dog travels with the protagonist?
(a) Newfoundland
(b) Husky
(c) German Shepherd
(d) Burmese Mountain Dog

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

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

7. What color are the protagonist’s beard and moustache?
(a) Red
(b) White
(c) Black
(d) Blonde

8. 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) Two days
(b) 3 weeks
(c) A month
(d) 1 week

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

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

11. Where is the old-timer from that the protagonist recalls in Part III?
(a) Sulphur Creek
(b) Bighorn Ranch
(c) Crystal Springs
(d) Bear Mountain

12. The narrator states in Part II that given that the freezing-point is 32 degrees above zero, the degrees of frost obtained as the protagonist travels is what?
(a) 40 degrees
(b) 107 degrees
(c) 62 degrees
(d) 88 degrees

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

14. In what year did Jack London die?
(a) 1916
(b) 1957
(c) 1969
(d) 1944

15. What is a literary figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is the same as another otherwise unrelated object?
(a) Irony
(b) Hyperbole
(c) Metaphor
(d) Foreshadowing

Short Answer Questions

1. What word refers to “a newcomer to the land” in Part I?

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

3. What location is 1,000 miles north along the “dark hair-line” of the main trail visible in Part I?

4. The protagonist had been out in how many cold snaps before, according to the narrator in Part II?

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

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