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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color are the protagonist’s beard and moustache?
(a) Red
(b) Blonde
(c) White
(d) Black

2. The protagonist anticipates arriving to meet the boys at the campsite by what time in Part I?
(a) 8:30 p.m.
(b) 3:30 p.m.
(c) 10:00 p.m.
(d) 6:00 p.m.

3. 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) Two days
(c) A month
(d) 1 week

4. What type of point-of-view in literature allows the reader to know everything that can be known about a character, including past history, thoughts, and feelings?
(a) Omniscient
(b) Invasive
(c) Limited
(d) Constructive

5. What does the protagonist do to help the dog after it falls through the ice in Part II?
(a) Puts his mittens on the dog
(b) Warms the dog against his bare skin
(c) Helps to remove the ice from its paws
(d) Builds a fire

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the temperature, according to the narrator in Part II?

2. The narrator states in Part III that “there was no keen” what “between the dog and the man”?

3. What is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that will come later in the story?

4. What is significant about the protagonist’s spittle crackling in Part I?

5. What word refers to “a newcomer to the land” in Part I?

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