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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the protagonist realize he’s forgotten to do when he stops to eat his lunch in Part III?
(a) Drink water
(b) Build a fire
(c) Build a shelter
(d) Say a prayer

2. When the protagonist gets up to leave after his lunch, he takes the creek trail in which direction in Part III?
(a) Up the left fork
(b) Up the right fork
(c) Up the center fork
(d) Downstream

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

4. The narrator states that the only caresses the dog has known were the caresses of what, in Part III?
(a) The wind
(b) The whip-lash
(c) Strangers
(d) The rain

5. At what time exactly does the protagonist arrive at the forks of the creek in Part II?
(a) 6:30 a.m.
(b) 11:00 a.m.
(c) 12:30 p.m.
(d) 9:00 a.m.

6. What does the protagonist chew as he travels in the narrative?
(a) Gum
(b) Manzanita leaves
(c) Tobacco
(d) Leather

7. The only supply the protagonist is carrying with him on his journey is what?
(a) A rifle
(b) His lunch
(c) A sled
(d) A handgun

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

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

10. When did the Klondike Gold Rush begin?
(a) 1872
(b) 1897
(c) 1845
(d) 1912

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

12. The narrator claims that the “trouble with him” is that he is without what in Part I?
(a) Money
(b) Imagination
(c) Hope
(d) Regret

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

14. What type of point-of-view in literature allows the reader to know everything that can be known about a character, including past history, thoughts, and feelings?
(a) Invasive
(b) Omniscient
(c) Limited
(d) Constructive

15. What does the protagonist do after finishing his lunch in Part III?
(a) Takes a nap
(b) Watches the clouds
(c) Drinks some whiskey
(d) Lights a pipe

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the protagonist do to help the dog after it falls through the ice in Part II?

2. The “dark hair-line” of trail visible in Part I is said to be the main trail that leads south how many miles to the Chilcoot Pass?

3. What refers to an object, action, or idea that represents something other than itself?

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

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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