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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Jack London die?
(a) 1957
(b) 1916
(c) 1969
(d) 1944

2. 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 actions
(c) The beauty
(d) The lessons

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

4. According to the narrator in Part II, no man had come up or down the silent creek that the protagonist travels on in how long?
(a) Two days
(b) 1 week
(c) A month
(d) 3 weeks

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word from Part III refers to pedigree, genealogy or stock?

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

3. When the protagonist gets up to leave after his lunch, he takes the creek trail in which direction in Part III?

4. Where was Jack London born?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the protagonist described by the narrator in Part I?

2. Where is the protagonist traveling in the story? What supplies does he carry?

3. What is the point of view of the narrative in To Build a Fire?

4. What are the most significant elements of the setting of To Build a Fire?

5. Where does the protagonist decide to eat lunch in the narrative? Why?

6. What role does the old-timer play in the narrative?

7. Why does the protagonist eat quickly when he stops for lunch in Part III?

8. How is the relationship between the protagonist and the dog significant to the plot of the story?

9. What advice did the old-timer give to the protagonist?

10. What does the protagonist do after eating his lunch in Part III? How does the dog respond?

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