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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What causes the “traps” that are along the protagonist’s path in Part II?
(a) The sun
(b) Springs
(c) Rocks
(d) Branches

3. The narrator says of the protagonist in Part II, “He was not much given to thinking, and just then particularly he had nothing to think about save that he would eat lunch” where?
(a) On the ridge
(b) At the forks
(c) In the canyon
(d) By the lake

4. Where is the old-timer from that the protagonist recalls in Part III?
(a) Crystal Springs
(b) Bear Mountain
(c) Sulphur Creek
(d) Bighorn Ranch

5. What is a literary figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is the same as another otherwise unrelated object?
(a) Metaphor
(b) Irony
(c) Foreshadowing
(d) Hyperbole

Short Answer Questions

1. The day is described as having broken exceedingly how in the opening of To Build a Fire?

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. After departing from eating his lunch, the protagonist travels along which body of water?

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

5. The narrator states that the only caresses the dog has known were the caresses of what, in Part III?

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