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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. St. Michael is described as being located by what body of water in Part I?
(a) The Gulf of Alaska
(b) The Bering Sea
(c) Cook Inlet
(d) The Arctic Ocean

4. What is significant about the protagonist’s spittle crackling in Part I?
(a) It cracks mid-air
(b) It is blue
(c) It doesn’t melt
(d) It doesn’t leave his lips

5. What is the point of view for the narrative of To Build a Fire?
(a) Fourth-person
(b) Third-person
(c) Second-person
(d) First-person

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Jack London born?

2. Where did Jack London’s family settle in 1886?

3. The day is described as having broken exceedingly how in the opening of To Build a Fire?

4. The protagonist anticipates arriving to meet the boys at the campsite by what time in Part I?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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