To Build A Fire

A: Which of the following best describes a central theme of the text?

A)Death is not frightening, but more like sleep.

B)Pride is needed to survive adversity.

C)In the struggle of man against nature, nature always wins.

D)Loyalty is stronger in animals than in humans.

PART B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A?

A)“It did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold; and from there on it did not lead him to the conjectural field of immortality and man's place in the universe.” (Paragraph 3)

B)“All a man had to do was to keep his head, and he was all right. Any man who was a man could travel alone.” (Paragraph 20)

C)“…and when he spoke peremptorily, with the sound of whip-lashes in his voice, the dog rendered its customary allegiance and came to him.” (Paragraph 31)

D)“Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known.” (Paragraph 39)