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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The protagonist shoves the dog in order to make it do what in Part II?
(a) Walk behind him
(b) Lay down
(c) Howl
(d) Walk ahead of him

2. Which word from Part III means anticipation of adversity or misfortune?
(a) Peremptorily
(b) Apprehension
(c) Conflagration
(d) Irony

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

4. After departing from his lunch break, the protagonist sees no signs of springs for how long?
(a) 10 minutes
(b) 30 minutes
(c) 3 hours
(d) 1 hours

5. The trek that the protagonist takes is expected to last how long?
(a) 5 hours
(b) 2 hours
(c) 9 hours
(d) 14 hours

6. The narrator states in Part I that the protagonist is used to the lack of what?
(a) Sun
(b) Warmth
(c) Stars
(d) Birds

7. What is the temperature, according to the narrator in Part II?
(a) 20 degrees
(b) 5 degrees
(c) Negative 75 degrees
(d) Negative 10 degrees

8. What does the protagonist do after finishing his lunch in Part III?
(a) Watches the clouds
(b) Takes a nap
(c) Drinks some whiskey
(d) Lights a pipe

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

10. The protagonist anticipates arriving to meet the boys at the campsite by what time in Part I?
(a) 3:30 p.m.
(b) 8:30 p.m.
(c) 10:00 p.m.
(d) 6:00 p.m.

11. Which word from Part III refers to pedigree, genealogy or stock?
(a) Flounder
(b) Wistful
(c) Ancestry
(d) Apathetic

12. What refers to the condition in which core temperature drops below the required temperature for normal metabolism and body functions?
(a) Thermoregulation
(b) Hypothermia
(c) Asphyxiation
(d) Insomnia

13. The protagonist steps through the ice and wets himself how high in Part IV?
(a) Halfway to the knees
(b) To the waist
(c) To the elbows
(d) Halfway up the thighs

14. 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) By the lake
(d) In the canyon

15. When the protagonist reaches Henderson Creek in Part II, he knows he is how far from the forks?
(a) 17 miles
(b) 2 miles
(c) 10 miles
(d) 4 miles

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator claims that the “trouble with him” is that he is without what in Part I?

2. The Yukon lay hidden under how many feet of ice, according to the narrator in Part I?

3. What is contained in the biscuits that the protagonist carries with him for lunch?

4. Where is the old-timer from that the protagonist recalls in Part III?

5. How wide is the Yukon, according to the narrator in Part I?

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