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Jack London, To Build a Fire

Jack London, To Build a Fire

Read To Build a Fire and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. The main character is

a hiker in the Canadian Rockies.

a miner returning to his camp along the Yukon trail.

an engineer with an oil company in Alaska.

a hunter tracking an Alaskan wolf.

2. What does the man have hidden under his shirt?

a photograph of a woman

biscuits with bacon

a knife

a gun

3. The old-timer on Sulphur Creek warned the man not to travel

without matches.

alone in the extreme cold.

with a dog.

without a dog.

4. Because of the way the man has regularly treated the dog, the dog

trusts the man.

attacks the man.

does not trust the man.

goes for help.

5. The most dangerous thing that can happen to the man in the extreme cold is

for his partners to abandon him.

to be in the wilderness without matches.

to get wet and not be able to dry his boots and clothes.

for the dog to abandon him.