| Characters | ||
| #1 | Who was the main character? (Full name) | Walt Masters |
| #2 | Who is the antagonist(s) in the story? | Claim Jumpers/the weather |
| #3 | Who's land was the main character responsible for? | Loren Hall |
| #4 | Name two character traits of Walt Masters. | Responsible, Smart, Trustworthy, Brave, Reliable, Resourceful, Sneaky, etc. |
| #5 | George Lukens | He lost his claim to claim jumpers while on his way to Dawson City. |
| Setting | ||
| #1 | Where does the story take place? | In the Yukon/Canada |
| #2 | What about the setting made this journey harder for the main character? | The cold weather |
| #3 | Where do the men have to go to record their claim? | Dawson City |
| #4 | Approximately when did this story take place? | In the late 1890's |
| #5 | What was the name of the gold-mining region along a tributary of the Yukon River? (the name of this particular Gold Rush...) | Klondike |
| Conflicts | ||
| #1 | Who was trying to steal Walt's neighbor's land? | Claim Jumpers/Stampeders |
| #2 | The snow and below freezing temperatures made Walt's travel very difficult. What type of conflict is this? | Person vs Nature (External) |
| #3 | What does Walt realize about the dog he chose to lead his sled? | The dog does not know the commands |
| #4 | What advantage to the claim jumpers have while chasing Walt? | Guns |
| #5 | Why did Walt have to get off the sled and run along side of it? | To keep his blood flowing so he wouldn't freeze to death |
| Vocabulary | ||
| #1 | Liable | likely |
| #2 | Sudden headlong rush or flight of a crowd of people | Stampede |
| #3 | People who search for valuable minerals, such as gold | Prospectors |
| #4 | Peer | To look intently, searchingly or with difficulty |
| #5 | To make clumsy attempts to move or regain one's balance | Flounder |
| Misc | ||
| #1 | Walt dashed around the bend with a couple of revolver bullets singing after him' is an example of what type of figurative language? | Personification |
| #2 | The creek is as rich as a United States mint! What type of figurative language is this? | Simile |
| #3 | 'Faith, it's an ilegant chanst to be gettin' a run fer yer money!' said the Irishman. This is an example of what? | Dialect |
| #4 | 'The snow was a blanket of ice.' This is an example of what type of figurative language? | Metaphor |
| #5 | 'The thing for us to do is to rest the dogs a bit, and then hit the trail as hard as we can.' This is an example of what kind of figurative language? | Idiom |
| Final Question | |
| What are the glowing bands or streamers of light sometimes appearing in the night sky of the Northern Hemisphere called? | Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis |