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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Anchorage
(c) Moosejaw
(d) Dawson

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

4. According to the narrator in Part I, “It was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible” what “over the face of things”?
(a) Pall
(b) Cheerfulness
(c) Destiny
(d) Brightness

5. Which word from Part III refers to pedigree, genealogy or stock?
(a) Apathetic
(b) Flounder
(c) Ancestry
(d) Wistful

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

7. 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) 88 degrees
(b) 62 degrees
(c) 107 degrees
(d) 40 degrees

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

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

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

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

12. The protagonist is described in Part I as being “quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in” what?
(a) The actions
(b) The significances
(c) The beauty
(d) The lessons

13. The protagonist experiences a pang of regret that he had not devised what object that Bud wears in cold snaps in Part II?
(a) Caribou pants
(b) A nose-strap
(c) A hat with flaps
(d) A musk ox mask

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In literature, what are exaggerations to create emphasis or effect?

3. In literature, what refers to the struggle occurring within a character's mind?

4. What is significant about the protagonist’s spittle crackling in Part I?

5. What is a literary figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is the same as another otherwise unrelated object?

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