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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Mercury is often depicted holding what in his left hand?
(a) A lectisternium
(b) The caduceus
(c) A cistellatrix
(d) The Bacchanalia

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

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

5. Which word from Part IV means to draw back; start or shrink back, as in alarm, horror, or disgust?
(a) Flounder
(b) Manipulation
(c) Recoil
(d) Success

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Klondike Gold Rush begin?

2. The narrator states in Part I that the protagonist is used to the lack of what?

3. Which word, used to describe the snow in Part V, means something that covers, envelops, or conceals?

4. In literature, what refers to the struggle occurring within a character's mind?

5. What does the narrator refer to the dog as in Part III?

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