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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In literature, what refers to an incompatibility in how two or more individuals relate to one another?
(a) Relational conflict
(b) Foreshadowing
(c) External conflict
(d) Climax

2. The protagonist had been out in how many cold snaps before, according to the narrator in Part II?
(a) 11
(b) 5
(c) 2
(d) 8

3. What does the protagonist do in order to regain feeling in his feet in Part III?
(a) Puts his shoes on
(b) Pours warm water over them
(c) Gets the dog to lay on them
(d) Stamps up and down

4. What is contained in the biscuits that the protagonist carries with him for lunch?
(a) Salmonberries
(b) Salmon
(c) Bacon
(d) Blueberries

5. What time is it in the beginning of To Build a Fire?
(a) 6:30 a.m.
(b) 9:00 a.m.
(c) 11:15 a.m.
(d) 4:45 a.m.

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

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

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

9. What is the ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries, even when the surrounding temperature is very different?
(a) Hyperregulation
(b) Hyporegulation
(c) Hydroregulation
(d) Thermoregulation

10. The Yukon lay hidden under how many feet of ice, according to the narrator in Part I?
(a) 3
(b) 5
(c) 8
(d) 12

11. The protagonist shoves the dog in order to make it do what in Part II?
(a) Howl
(b) Walk ahead of him
(c) Walk behind him
(d) Lay down

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

13. The narrator states in Part I that the protagonist is used to the lack of what?
(a) Stars
(b) Warmth
(c) Birds
(d) Sun

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The day is described as having broken exceedingly how in the opening of To Build a Fire?

3. What does the protagonist chew as he travels in the narrative?

4. Where was Jack London born?

5. After departing from his lunch break, the protagonist sees no signs of springs for how long?

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