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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 beauty
(b) The lessons
(c) The significances
(d) The actions

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

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

4. 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) Omniscient
(b) Constructive
(c) Limited
(d) Invasive

5. St. Michael is described as being located by what body of water in Part I?
(a) The Gulf of Alaska
(b) The Bering Sea
(c) Cook Inlet
(d) The Arctic Ocean

6. 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?
(a) 500
(b) 120
(c) 235
(d) 895

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

8. What does the narrator say depresses the dog that travels with the protagonist in Part II?
(a) The dark
(b) The ice
(c) The man
(d) The cold

9. What does the narrator say the dog has learned and wants in Part II?
(a) Water
(b) Companionship
(c) Food
(d) Fire

10. The protagonist turns aside from what main trail to climb the high earth-bank to a “dim and little-traveled trail” in Part I?
(a) The Alaska Trail
(b) The Yukon trail
(c) The Apache Trail
(d) The Arctic Trail

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

12. What refers to related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest?
(a) Climax
(b) Metaphor
(c) Rising action
(d) Internal conflict

13. What word refers to “a newcomer to the land” in Part I?
(a) Nuoktuk
(b) Nenukto
(c) Chechaquo
(d) Chenutok

14. How many inches of snow cover the furrow of the last runners on the old sled-trail in Part II?
(a) 12
(b) 5
(c) 3
(d) 9

15. 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) 107 degrees
(b) 88 degrees
(c) 40 degrees
(d) 62 degrees

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which word from Part III refers to something that threatens to cause evil, harm or injury?

3. Which of the following is a central theme in To Build a Fire?

4. The protagonist anticipates arriving to meet the boys at the campsite by what time in Part I?

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

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