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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. The protagonist agitates the tree above him every time he does what in Part V?
(a) Lays against the trunk
(b) Saws off a branch
(c) Yells at the dog
(d) Pulls a twig

3. 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) 7 miles per hour
(b) 2 miles per hour
(c) 4 miles per hour
(d) 1 mile per hour

4. What refers to related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest?
(a) Climax
(b) Rising action
(c) Metaphor
(d) Internal conflict

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What color are the protagonist’s beard and moustache?

2. Naturalism was a literary movement that emerged in what decade?

3. How many matches go up in flame at once in Part V?

4. What does the narrator refer to the dog as in Part III?

5. 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?

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