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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Eating his lunch
(b) Looking at his watch
(c) Petting the dog
(d) Listening for a sound

2. The protagonist recalls the tale of a man who was caught in a blizzard and killed what before climbing into the carcass in Part V?
(a) A caribou
(b) A steer
(c) A musk ox
(d) A horse

3. What refers to an object, action, or idea that represents something other than itself?
(a) Foreshadowing
(b) Symbol
(c) Climax
(d) Rising action

4. What does the protagonist do in order to regain feeling in his feet in Part III?
(a) Puts his shoes on
(b) Pours warm water over them
(c) Gets the dog to lay on them
(d) Stamps up and down

5. The narrator claims in Part I that fifty degrees below zero means what degrees of frost?
(a) Eighty-odd
(b) Fifty-odd
(c) Twenty-odd
(d) Forty-odd

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word from Part IV means to be grateful or thankful?

2. The strings of the protagonist’s shoes are described as being like what in Part IV?

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

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

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

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