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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the protagonist do to help the dog after it falls through the ice in Part II?
(a) Builds a fire
(b) Warms the dog against his bare skin
(c) Helps to remove the ice from its paws
(d) Puts his mittens on the dog

2. What type of dog travels with the protagonist?
(a) Newfoundland
(b) Husky
(c) Burmese Mountain Dog
(d) German Shepherd

3. 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) Foreshadowing
(c) Metaphor
(d) Hyperbole

4. The protagonist anticipates arriving to meet the boys at the campsite by what time in Part I?
(a) 3:30 p.m.
(b) 6:00 p.m.
(c) 10:00 p.m.
(d) 8:30 p.m.

5. Jack London's mother was the fifth and youngest child of what Pennsylvania Canal builder?
(a) Albert Thompson
(b) Marshall Wellman
(c) Jackson Wright
(d) Roger Stevens

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The protagonist experiences a pang of regret that he had not devised what object that Bud wears in cold snaps in Part II?

3. The only supply the protagonist is carrying with him on his journey is what?

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?

5. What does the protagonist chew as he travels in the narrative?

(see the answer key)

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