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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 the struggle occurring within a character's mind?
(a) Irony
(b) Relational conflict
(c) External conflict
(d) Internal conflict

2. What does the dog do when it has ice formed between its toes from falling into the water in Part II?
(a) Licks its legs
(b) Runs away
(c) Curls into a ball
(d) Tries to chew the ice out

3. What is significant about the protagonist’s spittle crackling in Part I?
(a) It is blue
(b) It cracks mid-air
(c) It doesn’t melt
(d) It doesn’t leave his lips

4. 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) Thermoregulation
(c) Hydroregulation
(d) Hyporegulation

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

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

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. When the protagonist reaches the top of the steep bank on the little-traveled trail in Part I, he stops to catch his breath and excuses the action by doing what?
(a) Looking at his watch
(b) Listening for a sound
(c) Petting the dog
(d) Eating his lunch

9. Where did Jack London’s family settle in 1886?
(a) Arcata, California
(b) Los Angeles, California
(c) Oakland, California
(d) San Francisco, California

10. After departing from eating his lunch, the protagonist travels along which body of water?
(a) Tenaya Creek
(b) Sulphur Creek
(c) Boulder Creek
(d) Henderson Creek

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

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

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

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

15. What does the narrator refer to the dog as in Part III?
(a) A dumb beast
(b) A loyal companion
(c) A primal hunter
(d) A toil-slave

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Jack London born?

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

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

4. When the protagonist reaches Henderson Creek in Part II, he knows he is how far from the forks?

5. The protagonist experiences a pang of regret that he had not devised what object that Bud wears in cold snaps in Part II?

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