Jack London Video Quiz

Jack London's two famous novels are called...

• The Call of the Wild and To Build a Fire

• White Silence and The Call of the Wild

• White Fang and The Call of the Wild

• White Fang and The Son of the Wolf

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Who is John Griffith Chaney? 

• Jack London's father

• Jack London's publisher

• Jack London's stepfather

• Jack London

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What was something interesting about Jack London's mother?

• She was also a writer

• She was unwed when Jack was born

• She worked on a ship

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Jack London was from...

• a working class family

• a very wealthy family

• a family who could not afford to feed him

• an upper middle class family

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Jack London's Mother encouraged him to write

• true

• false

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Where did Jack London go after he dropped out of UC Berkeley to seek his fortune? 

• Honolulu

• Sacramento Valley

• San Francisco

• the Yukon

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What political/economic system did Jack London believe in after encountering many struggling poor people like himself? 

• capitalism

• socialism

• communism

• fascism

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London died of...

• Kidney disease

• Type 1 diabetes

• Lung cancer

• Tuberculosis

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