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CalloftheWildbyJackLondon 1
CalloftheWildbyJackLondon 1
Vocabulary to know
(In order of appearance in the story, going down the left column first, then the right)
Eccentricity Blunderer
Hobo Awkward
Treachery Ancestors
Orchard Striving
Wicked Supremacy
Sag Skulking
Unbridled Moccasins
Fiend Inevitable
Thrash Afoot
Agonizing Eerie
Fierce Chant
Deliberately Menacingly
Slouch Summit
Courier Excel
Gloomy Perplexed
Morose Wretched
Culprit Brute
Combatants Uncanny
Peculiar Lavishly
Famished Ferocity
Questions
8) What event in his life developed into the novels White Fang and The Call of the Wild?
10) Buck sees something for the first time. What is it?
11) What are the people and dogs in Dyle Beach like?
15) What happens as Spitz and Buck fight over Buck’s sleeping quarters?
16) Why was Perrault chosen for the post of a government courier?
17) The driver does something nice for Buck. What is it and why does he do it?
20) Dave gets too ill to continue the travel. One of the men does what out of mercy?
21) The lady, Mercedes, is not happy about how the dogs are being treated. She secretly does what?
22) Later on she stops caring about the dogs’ well-being. Why do you think that is?
23) At some point, Buck refuses to go on. Hal is about to club him. What happens?
26) But Buck was always afraid that John might do what?
27) When John was attacked in a bar, what did Buck do?
Questions
59) happiness
63) to return to the wild and join his ancestors, the wolves