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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the protagonist gets up to leave after his lunch, he takes the creek trail in which direction in Part III?
(a) Up the right fork
(b) Up the center fork
(c) Downstream
(d) Up the left fork

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

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

4. 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

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

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

7. 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

8. What does the protagonist use to ignite his fire in Part III?
(a) A piece of flint
(b) A match
(c) A magnifying glass
(d) A gun

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

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 Yukon trail
(b) The Apache Trail
(c) The Arctic Trail
(d) The Alaska Trail

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

12. 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

13. The day is described as having broken exceedingly how in the opening of To Build a Fire?
(a) Cold and gray
(b) Cloudy and miserable
(c) Misty and wet
(d) Sunny and warm

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say depresses the dog that travels with the protagonist in Part II?

2. The narrator claims in Part I that fifty degrees below zero means what degrees of frost?

3. The protagonist steps through the ice and wets himself how high in Part IV?

4. Where is the old-timer from that the protagonist recalls in Part III?

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

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