fit.
Question 9 (5 points)
Read the following passage from To Build a Fire, by Jack London, then answer the
question.
The fire was a success. He was safe. He remembered the advice of the old-timer on
Sulphur Creek, and smiled. The old-timer had been very serious in laying down the
law that no man must travel alone in the Klondike after fifty below. Well, here he
was; he had had the accident; he was alone; and he had saved himself. Those old-
timers were rather womanish, some of them, he thought. 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.
There was the fire, snapping and crackling and promising life with every dancing
flame. He started to untie his moccasins. They were coated with ice; the thick