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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 narrator say the dog has learned and wants in Part II?
(a) Food
(b) Fire
(c) Companionship
(d) Water

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

3. The narrator claims that the “trouble with him” is that he is without what in Part I?
(a) Money
(b) Hope
(c) Regret
(d) Imagination

4. What is contained in the biscuits that the protagonist carries with him for lunch?
(a) Bacon
(b) Blueberries
(c) Salmon
(d) Salmonberries

5. The protagonist is bound for an old claim on the left fork of what in To Build a Fire?
(a) Henderson Creek
(b) Johnson Creek
(c) Alberts Creek
(d) Indian Creek

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the protagonist realize he’s forgotten to do when he stops to eat his lunch in Part III?

2. What is significant about the protagonist’s spittle crackling in Part I?

3. Where was Jack London born?

4. What refers to an incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result?

5. The protagonist shoves the dog in order to make it do what in Part II?

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