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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word from Part IV means situated at some distance away?
(a) Remote
(b) Proximity
(c) Latitude
(d) Urban

2. Which word from Part IV means to be grateful or thankful?
(a) Manipulation
(b) Appreciate
(c) Success
(d) Wistful

3. How is death described in the protagonist’s thoughts and fears in Part V?
(a) Dull and oppressive
(b) Painful and final
(c) Powerful and liberating
(d) Sharp and fateful

4. The narrator states in Part V of the protagonist, “It struck him as curious that one should have to use his eyes in order to find out where” what were?
(a) His knife
(b) His hands
(c) His matches
(d) His feet

5. The protagonist lights his second fire by touching a match to a small shred of what that he takes from his pocket in Part IV?
(a) Seal blubber
(b) Birch bark
(c) Oak leaves
(d) Cotton cloth

6. In order to build a fire, the protagonist must do what in Part IV?
(a) Remove his mittens
(b) Remove his watch
(c) Remove his coat
(d) Remove his moccasins

7. Which word from Part IV means a large destructive fire?
(a) Wistful
(b) Apprehension
(c) Recoil
(d) Conflagration

8. According to the narrator in Part VI, “never in the dog's experience had it known a man to sit like that in the snow and” do what?
(a) Cry
(b) Be silent
(c) Not move
(d) Make no fire

9. The popularized second version of To Build a Firewas published in what year?
(a) 1899
(b) 1880
(c) 1927
(d) 1908

10. Part V of the story marks what point in the plot structure?
(a) Climax
(b) Falling action
(c) Exposition
(d) Denouement

11. Which word used to describe the protagonist in Part V means having or showing little or no emotion?
(a) Ancestry
(b) Flounder
(c) Apathetic
(d) Appreciate

12. The protagonist thinks to himself as he dies in Part VI, “When he got back to the States he could tell the folks” what?
(a) Where he had lost his fingers
(b) About the rugged north
(c) What real cold was
(d) How he was a survivor

13. How does the protagonist become aware that his hand is on fire in Part V?
(a) The sound
(b) The smell
(c) The sight
(d) The feeling

14. Which word from Part IV means the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors?
(a) Conflagration
(b) Wistful
(c) Success
(d) Ancestry

15. Mercury was a messenger in Roman mythology who wore what?
(a) An invisible cape
(b) A silver helmet
(c) Winged sandals
(d) A golden crown

Short Answer Questions

1. When did a man from Sulphur Creek tell the protagonist about the dangers of being wet in the cold?

2. To Build a Fireis considered to be a reflection of Jack London’s own experiences where?

3. The narrator states in Part V that the dog looks to the protagonist as what?

4. What are the shoes called that the protagonist wears in the narrative?

5. Which word from Part V refers to a large mass of snow, detached from a mountain slope and sliding or falling suddenly downward?

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