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