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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which word from Part III refers to something that threatens to cause evil, harm or injury?
(a) Menacing
(b) Apprehension
(c) Manipulation
(d) Apathetic

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

4. What does the narrator refer to the protagonist in the story as?
(a) The man
(b) The wanderer
(c) The explorer
(d) The fool

5. 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) 40 degrees
(b) 62 degrees
(c) 107 degrees
(d) 88 degrees

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

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

8. The narrator claims in Part I that fifty degrees below zero means what degrees of frost?
(a) Fifty-odd
(b) Eighty-odd
(c) Forty-odd
(d) Twenty-odd

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

10. At what pace has the protagonist been making his journey when he looks at his watch at 10:00 a.m. in Part II?
(a) 2 miles per hour
(b) 7 miles per hour
(c) 1 mile per hour
(d) 4 miles per hour

11. What does the protagonist chew as he travels in the narrative?
(a) Leather
(b) Manzanita leaves
(c) Gum
(d) Tobacco

12. What is a literary figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is the same as another otherwise unrelated object?
(a) Irony
(b) Metaphor
(c) Foreshadowing
(d) Hyperbole

13. What refers to an incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result?
(a) Symbol
(b) Irony
(c) External conflict
(d) Metaphor

14. What had been the protagonist’s response when the old-timer told him how cold it could get in the country?
(a) He cried
(b) He thanked him for the warning
(c) He laughed at him
(d) He got angry

15. The protagonist had been out in how many cold snaps before, according to the narrator in Part II?
(a) 11
(b) 8
(c) 2
(d) 5

Short Answer Questions

1. The protagonist is bound for an old claim on the left fork of what in To Build a Fire?

2. 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?

3. When did the Klondike Gold Rush begin?

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”?

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

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