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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. What does the dog yearn toward as the man departs after eating his lunch in Part III?
(a) The fire
(b) A snow cave
(c) The cloth that the biscuits were wrapped with
(d) The forest

3. Which word from Part III refers to something that threatens to cause evil, harm or injury?
(a) Apprehension
(b) Menacing
(c) Manipulation
(d) Apathetic

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

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

6. What does the protagonist do once he reaches the forks of the creek in Part II?
(a) Stops to eat lunch
(b) Sets a lynx trap
(c) Sets a beaver trap
(d) Goes fishing

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

8. What is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that will come later in the story?
(a) Hyperbole
(b) Climax
(c) Foreshadowing
(d) Irony

9. What is the point of view for the narrative of To Build a Fire?
(a) First-person
(b) Third-person
(c) Second-person
(d) Fourth-person

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

11. 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) Downstream
(d) Up the center fork

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

13. The narrator claims in Part I that fifty degrees below zero means what degrees of frost?
(a) Forty-odd
(b) Fifty-odd
(c) Eighty-odd
(d) Twenty-odd

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

15. At 12:00 p.m., the sun is at its brightest but it is too far in what direction to clear the horizon?
(a) North
(b) South
(c) West
(d) East

Short Answer Questions

1. In literature, what refers to the author's providing of some background information to the audience about the plot, characters' histories, setting, and theme?

2. The narrator states in Part III that “there was no keen” what “between the dog and the man”?

3. The trek that the protagonist takes is expected to last how long?

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

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

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