WorksheetsCall of the Wild vocab test
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 9mins
What is the missing vocab word?
He was glad for one thing: the rope was off his neck. That had given them an unfair advantage; but now that it was off, he would show them. They would never get another rope around his neck. Upon that he was resolved. For two days and nights he neither ate nor drank, and during those two days and nights of torment, he accumulated a fund of wrath that boded ill for whoever first fell foul of him. His eyes turned blood-shot, and he was __________ into a raging fiend. So changed was he that the Judge himself would not have recognized him; and the express messengers breathed with relief when they bundled him off the train at Seattle.
Metamorphose(d)
Chaffer(ed)
Impartial
Interlace(d)
What is the missing vocab word?
Another lesson. So that was the way they did it, eh? Buck confidently selected a spot, and with much fuss and waste effort proceeded to dig a hole for himself. In a trice the heat from his body filled the confined space and he was asleep. The day had been long and arduous, and he slept soundly and comfortably, though he growled and barked and wrestled with bad dreams. Nor did he open his eyes till __________ by the noises of the waking camp.
Brood(ed)
Ignominious(ly)
Remonstrance(d)
Rouse(d)
What is the missing vocab word?
He watched and learned. When he saw Pike, one of the new dogs, a clever malingerer and thief, slyly steal a slice of bacon when Perrault's back was turned, he duplicated the performance the following day, getting away with the whole chunk. A great uproar was raised, but he was unsuspected; while Dub, an awkward _________ who was always getting caught, was punished for Buck's misdeed.
Primeval
Blunderer
Malingerer
Covert
Pick all the TRUE answers that describe Buck.
"Dominant Primordial Beast"
"Dat Buck Two Devils"
"Law Giver of the Law of Fang"
None of the Above
All of the Above
"Buck was flung from the..."
Finish the sentence.
(a)
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Buck got a frothing adversary by the throat, and was sprayed with blood when his teeth sank through the jugular. The warm taste of it in his mouth ________ him to greater fierceness. He flung himself upon another, and at the same time felt teeth sink into his own throat. It was Spitz, treacherously attacking from the side.
goaded
Calamity
Daunted
When Buck is "flung from the heart of civilization", he was happy but grew more vicious as he stayed there.
True
False
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He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. He had learned the lesson, and in all his after life he never forgot it. That club was a revelation. It was his introduction to the reign of _________ law, and he met the introduction halfway.
Primordial
Draught
Primitive
Primeval
What is the missing vocab word?
All day Buck _________ by the pool or roamed restlessly about the camp. Death, as a cessation of movement, as a passing out and away from the lives of the living, he knew, and he knew John Thornton was dead.
Flounder(ed)
Remonstrance(d)
Brood(ed)
At the beginning of the book, Buck lived with...
(a)
""Dat Buck _______ ," was Francois's rejoinder. "All de tam I watch dat Buck I know for sure. Lissen: some dam fine day heem get mad lak hell an' den heem chew dat Spitz all up an' spit heem out on de snow. Sure. I know."
mean
two devils
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The dominant ________ beast was strong in Buck, and under the fierce conditions of trail life it grew and grew. Yet it was a secret growth. His newborn cunning gave him poise and control.
Quibble
Primordial
Daunt(ing)
