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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which word used to describe the protagonist in Part V means having or showing little or no emotion?
(a) Apathetic
(b) Flounder
(c) Appreciate
(d) Ancestry

4. Which word from Part V refers to a large mass of snow, detached from a mountain slope and sliding or falling suddenly downward?
(a) Frazil ice
(b) Avalanche
(c) Igloo
(d) Icicle

5. The day is described as having broken exceedingly how in the opening of To Build a Fire?
(a) Cold and gray
(b) Sunny and warm
(c) Cloudy and miserable
(d) Misty and wet

Short Answer Questions

1. What of the protagonist’s “ebbed away and sank down into the recesses of his body” in Part IV?

2. When the protagonist’s first fire is extinguished and he decides to build a second in Part V, he realizes that he will probably lose what?

3. Which word, describing the dog in Part V, means sadly pensive, especially about something yearned for?

4. When did a man from Sulphur Creek tell the protagonist about the dangers of being wet in the cold?

5. What does the protagonist chew as he travels in the narrative?

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