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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word from Part IV means the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors?
(a) Ancestry
(b) Success
(c) Wistful
(d) Conflagration

2. St. Michael is described as being located by what body of water in Part I?
(a) Cook Inlet
(b) The Gulf of Alaska
(c) The Arctic Ocean
(d) The Bering Sea

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) In the canyon
(b) By the lake
(c) At the forks
(d) On the ridge

4. Which of the following is a central theme in To Build a Fire?
(a) Man versus nature
(b) Religious persecution
(c) Corrupt politics
(d) Forbidden love

5. Which word from Part IV means a large destructive fire?
(a) Conflagration
(b) Apprehension
(c) Wistful
(d) Recoil

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did Jack London die?

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?

4. In literature, what refers to an incompatibility in how two or more individuals relate to one another?

5. What refers to an obstacle located outside the protagonist, including nature, the supernatural, or society?

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