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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states in Part I that the protagonist is used to the lack of what?
(a) Birds
(b) Warmth
(c) Sun
(d) Stars

2. 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 Alaska Trail
(b) The Apache Trail
(c) The Arctic Trail
(d) The Yukon trail

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

4. The “dark hair-line” of trail visible in Part I is said to be the main trail that leads north 70 miles to what location?
(a) Fairbanks
(b) Dawson
(c) Anchorage
(d) Moosejaw

5. How wide is the Yukon, according to the narrator in Part I?
(a) 1 mile
(b) 350 yards
(c) 1000 yards
(d) 500 feet

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator claims in Part I that fifty degrees below zero means what degrees of frost?

3. The narrator claims that the “trouble with him” is that he is without what in Part I?

4. What time is it in the beginning of To Build a Fire?

5. When the protagonist reaches the top of the steep bank on the little-traveled trail in Part I, he stops to catch his breath and excuses the action by doing what?

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