WorksheetsThe Call of the Wild Practice Test
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 15mins
In a way that is completely harmless
Innocuously
Feigned
Obdurate
Primordial
In a sad or serious way
Arduous
Imperiously
Lugubriously
Obdurate
defiance of authority; refusal to obey orders
Obdurate
Insubordination
Potent
Imperiously
Involving or requiring strenuous effort
Arduous
Pervaded
Primordial
Potent
Existing at or from the beginning of time; primeval
Potent
Pervaded
Primordial
Obdurate
Spread through and be perceived in every part
Pervaded
Assailed
Potent
Formidable
In an unpleasantly proud way and expecting to be obeyed
Innocuously
Insubordination
Imperiously
Lugubriously
Make a concerted or violent attack on
Assailed
Assailant
Arduous
Feigned
Untidy; not cared for
Unkempt
Potent
Obdurate
Feigned
A person who physically attacks another
Assailed
Assailant
Potent
Unkempt
(of an animal) tame and kept as a pet or on a farm
Insubordination
Primordial
Formidable
Domesticated
Stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action
Formidable
Imperiously
Obdurate
Potent
Having or wielding force, authority, or influence
Arduous
Formidable
Potent
Primordial
Not genuine or real
Domesticated
Feigned
Unkempt
Potent
Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large
Innocuously
Obdurate
Potent
Formidable
What is Buck?
A dog, half St. Bernard and half Scottish shepherd
An Arabian stallion
a young gold hunter
An Alaskan wolf
Where does Buck live at the beginning of the novel?
Nome, Alaska
The Santa Clara Valley, in California
Vermont
Flagstaff, Arizona
What is the name of Buck’s first master?
John Thornton
Manuel
Judge Miller
Mercedes
Who kidnaps Buck from his home?
Hal and Charles
Yeehat Indians
Judge Miller
Manuel, a gardener
Which dog gets killed immediately upon her arrival in the North?
Curly
Spitz
Mercedes
Koona
What is the profession of Francois and Perrault?
Gold hunters
Mail carriers
Dog trainers
Fur traders
Who is Buck's great rival on the team of dogs?
Teeka
Spitz
Koona
Sol-leks
What event intervenes to stop a fight between Buck and Spitz?
An avalanche
An attack by Indians
A flash flood
An attack by wild dogs
What event brings about the final confrontation between Buck and Spitz
A wild chase after a rabbit
A dispute over some food
A fire in the camp
The death of Billee
What does Buck demand after Spitz's death?
More food
Less work
That he be made the lead dog
That he be allowed to run wild
Who buys Buck and the other dogs when they are sold by the mail company?
John Thornton
Hal and Charles
Judge Miller
Matthewson
What does Mercedes insist on doing that slows the sled down?
Stopping frequently to feed the dogs
Buying fewer dogs
Taking shortcuts over patches of dirt
Riding on the sled herself
What happens to the dogs during Hal and Charles's trip to Dawson?
They begin to die of starvation
They make record time
They break their harnesses and escape to the woods
They attack one another
How does John Thornton save Buck’s life?
He shoots Hal and Charles
He pulls them out of the frozen river
He prevents Hal from beating him to death
He gets medicine for Buck in Dawson
What happens to Hal, Charles, and Mercedes after they leave John Thornton's?
They reach Dawson unscathed
They are ambushed by Yeehat Indians
Their sled team breaks through the ice and they drown
They die of starvation
How does Buck save John Thornton's life?
Buck kills a man who is about to shoot Thornton
Buck fends off an attack by Yeehat Indians
Buck pulls his master back when Thornton is about to fall of a cliff
When Thornton gets caught in the rapids, Buck swims to him and pulls him to safety
What bet does Thornton win with Matthewson?
That Buck can outrun a train
That Buck can move a sled loaded with a thousand lbs.
That Buck will do anything Thornton orders him to do
That Buck can find buried treasure
What does Buck do when Thornton gets into a bar fight?
He cowers under the bar
He drags Thornton outside by the collar
He leaps at the throat of Thornton’s assailant
He runs to find the police
What quest sends Thornton and his friends into the wilderness?
The search for a legendary lost mine
The search for Thornton’s missing brother
The search for the Northwest Passage
The search for a lost tribe of Indians
While the men camp and look for gold, what does Buck do?
He scouts for hostile Indians
He returns to Dawson carrying messages
He sleeps all day
He spends long periods of time in the forest, making contact with wolves
What kind of animal does Buck spend four days hunting?
A mountain lion
A moose
A polar bear
A wolf
What does Buck find when he returns from hunting?
The camp was burned
John Thornton has abandoned him and returned to Dawson
The camp has been attacked by Yeehat Indians
Nothing is amiss
What happens to Thornton?
He is killed by Indians
He is lost in a blizzard and freezes to death
He dies of hunger
He lives to a ripe old age in Nome
What does Buck learn when he attacks the Yeehat Indians?
That they are too strong for him
That he cannot kill humans
That he can kill men, as long as they are not armed
That arrows hurt
What does Buck do at the end of the novel?
He drowns
He goes mad and is killed by John Thornton
He is killed by wolves
He joins a wolf pack and becomes a legendary figure in the wild
