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The Call of the Wild

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Chapter I: Into the Primitive

Chapter II: The Law of Club and Fang

Chapter III: The Dominant Primordial Beast

Chapter IV: Who Has Won to Mastership

Chapter V: The Toil of Trace and Trail

Chapter VI: For the Love of a Man

Chapter VII: The Sounding of the Call

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The Call of the Wild

Jack London

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1. What is Buck?

(A) A dog, half St. Bernard and half Scottish shepherd

(B) A young gold hunter

(D) An Alaskan wolf

2. Where does Buck live at the beginning of the novel?

(A) Nome, Alaska

(B) Vermont

(D) Flagstaff, Arizona

3. What is the name of Buck's first master?

(A) John Thornton

(B) Judge Miller

(D) Mercedes

4. Who kidnaps Buck from his home?

(A) Hal and Charles

(B) Yeehat Indians

(D) Manuel, a gardener

5. Which dog gets killed immediately upon her arrival in the North?

(A) Curly

(B) Spitz

(D) Koona

6. What is the profession of Francois and Perrault?

(A) Gold hunters

(B) Dog trainers

(D) Fur traders

7. Who is Buck's great rival on the team of dogs?

(A) Teeka

(B) Spitz

(D) Sol-leks

8. What event intervenes to stop a fight between Buck and Spitz?

(A) An avalanche

(B) An attack by Indians

(D) An attack by wild dogs

9. What event brings about the final confrontation between Buck and Spitz?

(A) A wild chase after a rabbit

(B) A dispute over some food

(D) The death of Billee

10. What does Buck demand after Spitz's death?

(A) More food

(B) Less work

(D) That he be allowed to run wild

11. Who buys Buck and the other dogs when they are sold by the mail company?

(A) John Thornton

(B) Hal and Charles

(D) Matthewson

12. What does Mercedes insist on doing that slows the sled down?

(A) Stopping frequently to feed the dogs

(B) Taking shortcuts over patches of dirt

(D) Riding on the sled herself

13. What happens to the dogs during Hal and Charles's trip to Dawson?

(A) They begin to die of starvation

(B) They make record time

(D) They begin to attack one another

14. How does John Thornton save Buck's life?

(A) He shoots Hal and Charles

(B) He pulls him out of the river when the ice breaks

(D) He goes to Dawson to get medicine for Buck's illness

15. What happens to Hal, Charles, and Mercedes after they leave John Thornton's?

(A) They reach Dawson unscathed

(B) Their sled and team breaks through the ice and they drown

(D) They die of starvation

16. How does Buck save John Thornton's life?

(A) Buck kills a man who is about to shoot Thornton

(B) Buck fends off attacking Yeehat Indians

(D) When Thornton gets caught in the rapids, Buck swims to him and pulls him to safety

17. What bet does Thornton win with Matthewson?

(A) That Buck can outrun a train

(B) That Buck can move a sled loaded with a thousand pounds

(D) That Buck can find a buried treasure

18. What does Buck do when Thornton gets into a bar fight?

(A) He cowers under the bar

(B) He drags Thornton outside by the collar

(D) He runs to find the police

19. What quest sends Thornton and his friends into the wilderness?

(A) The search for a legendary lost mine

(B) The search for Thornton's missing brother

(D) The search for a lost tribe of Indians

20. While the men camp and look for gold, what does Buck do?

(A) He scouts for hostile Indians

(B) He returns to Dawson carrying messages

(D) He spends long periods of time in the deep forest, making contact with wolves

21. What kind of animal does Buck spend four days hunting?

(A) A mountain lion

(B) A moose

(D) A wolf

22. What does Buck find when he returns from hunting?

(A) The camp has burned

(B) John Thornton has abandoned him and returned to Dawson

(D) Nothing is amiss

23. What happens to John Thornton?

(A) He is killed by Indians

(B) He is lost in a blizzard and freezes to death

(D) He lives to a ripe old age in Nome

24. What does Buck learn when he attacks the Yeehat Indians?

(A) That they are too strong for him

(B) That he cannot kill humans

(D) That he can kill men, as long as they are not armed

25. What does Buck do at the end of the novel?

(A) He drowns

(B) He goes mad and is killed by John Thornton

(D) He joins a wolf pack and becomes a legendary figure in the wild

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