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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Jack London born?
(a) 1921
(b) 1876
(c) 1892
(d) 1907

2. 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

3. The narrator states in Part III that “there was no keen” what “between the dog and the man”?
(a) Reality
(b) Understanding
(c) Intimacy
(d) Ability

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

5. The protagonist is bound for an old claim on the left fork of what in To Build a Fire?
(a) Johnson Creek
(b) Alberts Creek
(c) Henderson Creek
(d) Indian Creek

6. What is the point of view for the narrative of To Build a Fire?
(a) First-person
(b) Third-person
(c) Fourth-person
(d) Second-person

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

8. 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) 1 week
(b) 3 weeks
(c) A month
(d) Two days

9. What refers to related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest?
(a) Rising action
(b) Internal conflict
(c) Climax
(d) Metaphor

10. What does the narrator say depresses the dog that travels with the protagonist in Part II?
(a) The man
(b) The dark
(c) The ice
(d) The cold

11. What had been the protagonist’s response when the old-timer told him how cold it could get in the country?
(a) He laughed at him
(b) He thanked him for the warning
(c) He cried
(d) He got angry

12. After departing from eating his lunch, the protagonist travels along which body of water?
(a) Sulphur Creek
(b) Boulder Creek
(c) Henderson Creek
(d) Tenaya Creek

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

14. What does the narrator refer to the protagonist in the story as?
(a) The explorer
(b) The fool
(c) The wanderer
(d) The man

15. The protagonist is described in Part I as being “quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in” what?
(a) The beauty
(b) The lessons
(c) The significances
(d) The actions

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What causes the “traps” that are along the protagonist’s path in Part II?

4. The narrator states in Part I, “North and south, as far as his eye could see, it was unbroken” what?

5. The “dark hair-line” of trail visible in Part I is said to be the main trail that leads south how many miles to the Chilcoot Pass?

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