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Need my Answers Checked, Study Guide on "Call of the Wild" by: Jack London

Answer 1

1. Michale scanned his clean room one last time before he left, remembering how his mother always called him fastidious.

Easy to distract
Attentive to details**************
Impulsive and hard to predict
Slow and always running late

2. If your enjoyment of sports is vicarious, you

Take part in many different activities************
Are picky in what you chose to play
Enjoy watching others play
Avoid them because you find them boring


3. In The call of the Wild, what is an early lesson Buck learns in his new life?

He learns to sleep in the snow************
He learns to never steal
He learns to avoid hard work in the traces
He learns to love another dog

4. John Thornton would embrace and shake Buck’s head back and forth, murmuring oaths. This meant

He expressed his love by making promises to Buck*************
He viewed his relationship with Buck as business
He expressed his love by playfully calling buck names
He didn’t really enjoy working with dogs

5. The dogs often sulk about the camp

They would often fight for leadership
They would burry themselves in the snow
They would move secretively, often looking for food************
They would walk in a bad-tempered or annoyed way

6. The scene where Hal beats the starving Buck nearly to death is an example of what plot element in The Call of the Wild.

Conflict
Exposition
Resolution
Rising action***********

7. In The Call of the Wild, when John Thornton almost drowns, the conflict can be best described as

Man vs. man
Man vs. himself
Man vs. nature**********
Man vs. society

8. Which of the following sentences illustrates that The Call of the Wild is in third-person omniscient narration

“’You ain’t going to take him out now?’”

“’I’m takin’ ‘im up for the boss to ‘Frisco.’”

“’Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog…” ***************

“’ It’ll be because you was born to hang,’ Laughed the saloon-keeper. ‘Here, lend me a hand before you pull your freight,’ he added.”

9. In Call of the Wild, how does London’s choice to use Alaska as a setting shape Buck’s character

Illustrating just how determined Buck was in searching for gold
Forcing him into live or die survival situations for the first time
Encouraging him to partner with Dolly and start a new pack
Pushing to go against his dog in nature and imitate other animals************

10. Which of the following statements would best state the theme of The Call of the Wild

True courage cannot be learned
Have faith in the values of humanity
It is better to be clever that to be strong **************
We are driven by our ancient animal instincts

11. Which of the following conflicts in The call of the Wild is most important to the development of Buck as a character

Buck vs. Hal
Buck vs. Spitz
Hal vs. John**********
Charles vs. Hal

12. In The Call of the Wild, what motivates Buck’s being sold as a sled dog?

The judge had no more room for a house dog
Buck killed Spitz with a pack of dogs
Manuel needed money for gambling debts
The man with the red sweater saw his large size and wanted him for his strength **********

13. Which of the following lines from The call of the Wild best supports the theme

“But buck possessed a quality that made for greatness-imagination”

“In passion to rend and destroy, he never forgot that his enemy was in like passion to rend and destroy” *****************

“Buck stood and looked on, the successful champion, the dominant primordial beast who made his kill and found it good”

“He took all manner of risks, resolutely thrusting his little weazened face into the frost and struggling on from dim dawn to dark.”

14. “Dat Buck for sure learned queek as anyt’ing” is an example of what?

Dialect*********
Exposition
Point of view
Theme

15. Several women’s rights groups have criticized models for being two gaunt. What does the work GAUNT most likely mean in this sentence?

Mature
Skinny
Sociable
Young**************

16. In the Call of the Wild, Buck’s memories and wild yearnings are represented by visions of

John************
Spitz
The hairy man
The man in the red sweater

Answer 2

@mirandasparkles can you look at them?

Answer 3

i am, am i supposed to fill in the blanks or is that there for decoration??:)

Answer 4

They are multiple choice, there is the number of the question, and then there is A,B,C,D

i have my answers marked like this************* So when you see that.... just plug that in for the answer for the question, is it right or not. and Why. Im studying for a test so i kinda need to know the right answers so im studying the right things

Answer 5

i can't give you answers if thats what ur looking for, it;s in the code of conduct so if you need help you have to ask someone else

Answer 6

now i can help but i cant give out answers

Answer 7

no no no no.. im not asking for the answers, im asking if my answers are right or not. if they are not right then i need to know why so that i can find the right answers.

Answer 8

oh! ok, u could have specified that then :)

Answer 9

sorry lol

Answer 10

they look correct, to me besides 11. it would be charles vs.hal

Answer 11

2 is wrong!

Answer 12

As is 15

Answer 13

I dunno about the rest, it's been a while since I read that book.

Answer 14

i know i remember it vaguely,

Answer 15

But for number 11. how can it be Charles vs. Hal? Because the question asks what was most important in the development of Buck. could it be Buck vs. Spits because Buck does end up killing Spits for the leadership

Answer 16

Vicarious: experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person.
Gaunt: (of a person) lean and haggard, especially because of suffering, hunger, or age.
See the right answers now for #2 and #15?

Answer 17

never mind, don't listen to me, i thought it was charles vs. hal, sorry

Answer 18

So number 2 is enjoying watching others play?

and Number 15 is skinny?

Answer 19

yea

Answer 20

Yep! :D

Answer 21

are the rest of them right? Because im not too sure on numbers, 1,6,7,10, and 13. I sorta guessed on those ones but my mom says they look fine, but im still not sure

Answer 22

they look fine

Answer 23

Thank You Guys! ^~^