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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Yukon lay hidden under how many feet of ice, according to the narrator in Part I?
(a) 12
(b) 5
(c) 3
(d) 8

2. Which word from Part III means anticipation of adversity or misfortune?
(a) Apprehension
(b) Irony
(c) Peremptorily
(d) Conflagration

3. 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) At the forks
(b) By the lake
(c) On the ridge
(d) In the canyon

4. 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

5. The protagonist turns aside from what main trail to climb the high earth-bank to a “dim and little-traveled trail” in Part I?
(a) The Apache Trail
(b) The Yukon trail
(c) The Alaska Trail
(d) The Arctic Trail

Short Answer Questions

1. What is contained in the biscuits that the protagonist carries with him for lunch?

2. After departing from his lunch break, the protagonist sees no signs of springs for how long?

3. What refers to an obstacle located outside the protagonist, including nature, the supernatural, or society?

4. What is the temperature, according to the narrator in Part II?

5. Jack London's mother was the fifth and youngest child of what Pennsylvania Canal builder?

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