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WorksheetsThe Call of the Wild Chapters 6-7
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 5hrs 0mins
Ch. 7: What is the "wood brother" Buck met in the woods?
A fellow sled dog
A wolf
A bull
A bear
Ch. 7: Why doesn't Buck stay with his "wood brother?"
He picks up a strange scent near camp and returns to check it out.
John calls for him.
He remembers John.
Skeet and Nig find him and he goes back with them.
Ch. 7: What has happened to Buck's camp and people?
A terrible flood washed over the land, drowning them all.
A pack of wolves led by the grey wolf attacked the camp, killing the dogs and people.
Nothing has happened.
A tribe of Indians attacked and killed everyone.
Ch. 7: How does Buck react to the death at the camp?
He attacks the Indians.
He drowns himself.
He runs back to Dawson and gets a new master.
He attacks the Indians and is killed.
Ch. 7: How does Buck earn his place with the pack of wolves?
He rolls on his back to show his belly.
He touches noses with the grey wolf.
He brings them a dead moose as an offering, which impresses them.
He kills their leader in a fight over a migrating moose.
Ch. 6: What's the symbolic meaning to John Thornton's fire?
Warmth
Destruction
Ownership
Love
Ch. 6: "... at each jerk back and forth it seemed that his heart would shaken out of his body so great was its ecstasy" (London).
What action is Buck experiencing here?
Getting beaten with a club.
Laying by Thornton's fire.
Being pet by John Thornton.
Laying in the deep snow.
Ch. 6: What happened to "Black" Burton?
John beat him up.
Buck tore open his throat.
He fell through the ice.
He helped assist John from drowning.
Ch. 6: How did Thornton win a sixteen-hundred-dollar wager?
Buck moved a 2,000lb sled by himself.
Buck could lead any team to gold.
Buck was the biggest sled dog in Alaska.
Buck and his team moved a half ton sled 100 yards.
Buck was the fastest dog on the trail.
Ch. 6: What did Buck do that caused the crowd to cheer at the end of the chapter?
Jump at "Black" Burton
Howl super loud
Jump the farthest
Move the sled one hundred yards
Not move the sled one inch
Ch. 6: Why did Buck follow John Thornton everywhere?
Buck wanted to steal food from him
Buck wanted to become John's master
Buck was afraid of losing him
Buck was waiting for John to sell him
Ch. 7: Why does John Thronton and his dogs leave Dawson?
They have enough money to pay their debts.
They need to continue their journey.
It is uncomfortable there because people fear Buck.
Hans and Pete want to hurry before winter sets in.
Ch. 7: As Buck's blood-longing became stronger, what did he spend four days doing?
Killing a bull moose.
Running with the wolves.
Killing a rabbit and a deer.
The story is being told from whose point of view?
Jack London
The Man in the Red Sweater
Buck
Manuel
Ch. 7: Buck began running with the wolf pack after he discovered that John Thornton...
was dead.
abandoned him.
was just as cruel as the man with the red sweater.
had a new favorite canine companion.
"Buck had a trick of love expression that was akin to hurt. He would often seize Thornton’s hand in his mouth and close so fiercely that the flesh bore the impress of his teeth for some time afterward. And as Buck understood the oaths to be love words, so the man understood this feigned bite for a caress.."
What does the underlined word mean?
faked or pretended
hard or rough
slobbery and wet
painful
Which of the following words does NOT belong in a group with the word plethoric?
overabundant
excessive
plump
lacking
Fact and fiction __________ in the story. The author researched the history of his topic before fictionalizing it.
commingled
feigned
scored
perambulated
"As the moose were coming into the land, other kinds of life were coming in. Forest and stream and air seemed palpitant with their presence."
What does the underlined word mean?
trembling, throbbing
excessively full
real; capable of being perceived
lively and green
Which of the following words does NOT belong in a group with the word tangible?
observable
perceivable
perceptible
imperceptible
