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WorksheetsCall of the Wild Review
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 18mins
These adjectives best describe Buck in the beginning of The Call of the Wild.
sweet and timid
rageful and violent
imperious and arrogant
lazy and privileged
Cause: Manuel has many children and a gambling problem.
Effect:
Manuel runs a black market dog fighting ring
Manuel steals Buck from Judge Judy
Manuel sells Buck to Perrault
Manuel steals Buck from Judge Miller
The Man in the Red Sweater can best be described as...
ruthlessly efficient at dog-breaking.
a good friend of Perrault.
someone terrified of dogs.
more of a cat guy than a dog guy.
Traits that accurately describe Francois. Choose more than one!
skilled at dog mushing
a great accent
not a big fan of Buck
fair
Perrault purchases two dogs from the Man in the Red Sweater. Buck and
Curly
Spitz
Dave
Sol-Leks
Spitz and Buck's fight to the death was interrupted by
starving wolves that attacked the camp.
a severe storm
an attack by Native peoples
starving huskies that attacked the camp.
After Buck defeats Spitz in their epic battle
Buck viciously attacks Dave.
Buck kills Sol-Leks for daring to take the lead dog position.
Buck leaves the team.
Buck refuses to be placed anywhere in the team besides lead dog.
Francois and Perrault get different orders, so Buck and his team...
get sold to Hal, Charles, and Mercedes.
get to rest for awhile
go back to the Man in the red Sweater.
get transferred to the mail train with the Scotch Half-Breed.
Choose traits that are accurate for Hal, Charles, and Mercedes. More than 1.
experienced.
inexperienced.
selfish.
cruel.
Hal, Charles, and Mercedes
lose Buck to John Thornton and then lose their lives.
find gold and get rich.
become quite good at dog-mushing.
are just plain awesome!
Buck saves John Thornton
from a revenge attack by Hal.
from a high cliff.
from drowning.
from clinical depression.
Buck wins John Thornton (a) by breaking free and pulling 1,000 pounds a hundred yards.
John Thornton decides to travel east into wild territory to
visit his friends, the Yeehats.
answer the call of the wild.
discover the legendary lost gold mine.
become governor of Alaska.
These events occurred for John Thornton and his friends. More than 1.
They find a placer (shallow river) rich in gold.
They were attacked by wild animals.
They were attacked and killed by Yeehat Indians.
They returned to Dawson.
Put a checkmark by all of the things that Buck kills in chapter 7.
bear
wolverine
moose
people
wolves
Buck discovers, in his rage at the death of John Thornton,
that humans are easier to kill than dogs.
that humans are unstoppable.
that he would soon be a pet of the Yeehats.
that wolves would never accept Buck.
When wolves surround and attack Buck,
he kills several, and becomes the leader of the wolf pack.
they kill him, and the novel ends in tragedy.
they chase him back to Dawson.
the wild wolf brother returns, and they defeat the pack, back to back.
For years afterward, the Yeehats
avoid a certain valley, believing it to be haunted by a massive ghost dog.
hunt endlessly for Buck.
keep going back for John Thornton's gold.
befriend the wolf pack that Buck took over.
Which location did Buck not spend any time in during the novel?
Santa Clara
San Francisco
Dawson City
Skagway
Los Angeles
Choose people that we've met in the novel:
Harrison Ford
Judge Miller
Francois
Hal
Spitz
