PART A: Which of the following best describes how the narrator describes nature, especially the cold?

A
The narrator describes the cold as a pervasive, almost personified force.
B
The narrator describes nature constantly changing and unpredictable.
C
The narrator describes nature, even the dog, as indifferent to the struggles of the man.
D
The narrator describes the cold as merely an element that can be easily conquered by men and fire.

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

A
"There was no sun nor hint of sun, though there was not a cloud in the sky. It was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, a subtle gloom that made the day dark, and that was due to the absence of sun.” ( Paragraph 1)
B
“Fifty degrees below zero stood for a bite of frost that hurt and that must be guarded against by the use of mittens, ear-flaps, warm moccasins, and thick socks. Fifty degrees below zero was to him just precisely fifty degrees below zero.” ( Paragraph 3)
C
“The creek he knew was frozen clear to the bottom,—no creek could contain water in that arctic winter,—but he knew also that there were springs that bubbled out from the hillsides and ran along under the snow and on top the ice of the creek. He knew that the coldest snaps never froze these springs, and he knew likewise their danger. They were traps.” ( Paragraph 11)
D
“This man did not know cold. Possibly all the generations of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of cold one hundred and seven degrees below freezing-point. But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge. And it knew that it was not good to walk abroad in such fearful cold.” ( Paragraph 15)