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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Symbol
(d) Irony

2. The narrator says of the protagonist in Part II, “He was not much given to thinking, and just then particularly he had nothing to think about save that he would eat lunch” where?
(a) By the lake
(b) At the forks
(c) On the ridge
(d) In the canyon

3. 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) Cheerfulness
(b) Pall
(c) Brightness
(d) Destiny

4. Where was Jack London born?
(a) Arcata, California
(b) San Francisco, California
(c) Oakland, California
(d) Los Angeles, California

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

6. What is the principle form of conflict faced by the protagonist in To Build a Fire?
(a) Manipulation
(b) Relational conflict
(c) Internal conflict
(d) External conflict

7. In literature, what are exaggerations to create emphasis or effect?
(a) Metaphors
(b) Ironies
(c) Hyperboles
(d) Foreshadowing

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

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

10. The only supply the protagonist is carrying with him on his journey is what?
(a) A handgun
(b) His lunch
(c) A sled
(d) A rifle

11. In literature, what refers to the author's providing of some background information to the audience about the plot, characters' histories, setting, and theme?
(a) Foreshadowing
(b) Exposition
(c) Rising action
(d) Climax

12. What is the temperature, according to the narrator in Part II?
(a) 20 degrees
(b) Negative 75 degrees
(c) Negative 10 degrees
(d) 5 degrees

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

14. 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) Gets the dog to lay on them
(d) Stamps up and down

15. What refers to an obstacle located outside the protagonist, including nature, the supernatural, or society?
(a) Manipulation
(b) External conflict
(c) Internal conflict
(d) Relational conflict

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Klondike Gold Rush begin?

2. How many inches of snow cover the furrow of the last runners on the old sled-trail in Part II?

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

4. What is the point of view for the narrative of To Build a Fire?

5. After departing from eating his lunch, the protagonist travels along which body of water?

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