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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator refer to the dog as in Part III?
(a) A toil-slave
(b) A dumb beast
(c) A primal hunter
(d) A loyal companion

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

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

4. What had been the protagonist’s response when the old-timer told him how cold it could get in the country?
(a) He got angry
(b) He cried
(c) He laughed at him
(d) He thanked him for the warning

5. The trek that the protagonist takes is expected to last how long?
(a) 14 hours
(b) 5 hours
(c) 2 hours
(d) 9 hours

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. The protagonist anticipates arriving to meet the boys at the campsite by what time in Part I?

5. The protagonist experiences a pang of regret that he had not devised what object that Bud wears in cold snaps in Part II?

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