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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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 Arctic Trail
(c) The Yukon trail
(d) The Apache Trail

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

4. On top of the ice of the Yukon is how many feet of snow, according to the narrator in Part I?
(a) 8
(b) 6
(c) 3
(d) 2

5. What word refers to “a newcomer to the land” in Part I?
(a) Chechaquo
(b) Nenukto
(c) Nuoktuk
(d) Chenutok

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Part I, “North and south, as far as his eye could see, it was unbroken” what?

2. 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?

3. In what year did Jack London die?

4. The narrator claims that the “trouble with him” is that he is without what 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?

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