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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What color is the dog that travels with the protagonist?
(a) Black
(b) Brown
(c) Gray
(d) White

4. According to the narrator in Part II, no man had come up or down the silent creek that the protagonist travels on in how long?
(a) 3 weeks
(b) 1 week
(c) A month
(d) Two days

5. 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) Dawson
(b) Moosejaw
(c) Fairbanks
(d) Anchorage

Short Answer Questions

1. What color are the protagonist’s beard and moustache?

2. What is contained in the biscuits that the protagonist carries with him for lunch?

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

4. 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?

5. What does the dog do when it has ice formed between its toes from falling into the water in Part II?

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