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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the dog do when it has ice formed between its toes from falling into the water in Part II?
(a) Tries to chew the ice out
(b) Curls into a ball
(c) Licks its legs
(d) Runs away

3. The protagonist had been out in how many cold snaps before, according to the narrator in Part II?
(a) 2
(b) 11
(c) 8
(d) 5

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

5. In literature, what refers to the author's providing of some background information to the audience about the plot, characters' histories, setting, and theme?
(a) Exposition
(b) Climax
(c) Foreshadowing
(d) Rising action

Short Answer Questions

1. The “dark hair-line” of trail visible in Part I is said to be the main trail that leads south how many miles to the Chilcoot Pass?

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 “dark hair-line” of trail visible in Part I is said to be the main trail that leads north 70 miles to what location?

4. How many inches of snow cover the furrow of the last runners on the old sled-trail in Part II?

5. According to the narrator in Part I, “It was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible” what “over the face of things”?

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