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100
This dog began his life in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley.
Who is Buck?
100
When you're down, you're dead.
What is The Law of Fang?
100
When Buck first steps off the train after being kidnapped, he experiences this for the first time.
What is snow?
100
to beg for urgently
What is implore?
100
to stop, come to an end
What is cease?
200
He is the first man Buck ever loved.
Who is John Thornton?
200
A man with a club is a lawgiver, a master to be obeyed.
What is The Law of the Club?
200
After Spitz steals Buck's sleeping nest, the two dogs begin to fight, but they are interrupted by this.
What is a score of famished huskies attacking their camp?
200
Immature and Inexperienced
What is a callow?
200
danger
What is peril?
300
She refused to walk in the snow.
Who is Mercedes?
300
When Buck gets kicked out of the tent on his first night in the cold, he discovers that this is how the dogs sleep.
What is by digging a hole in the snow as their nest?
300
When Hal, Charles, and Mercedes meet John Thornton, he gives them this advice.
What is "don't continue traveling - the ice is too thin."
300
messy, untidy
What is slovenly?
300
One who pretends to be ill to avoid work
What is a malingerer?
400
A dog breaker with a hatchet and a club.
Who is the man in the red sweater?
400
Buck quickly learns that he will need to do this immoral thing or else he might starve.
What is steal?
400
John wins $1600 by placing this bet.
What is that Buck could pull a sled with a thousand pounds on it for a hundred yards?
400
very noticeable
What is salient?
400
to follow orders
What is comply?
500
This man's treachery taught Buck not to trust people.
Who is Manuel?
500
Buck learned that law in the wild was "Kill or __________. Eat or ____________. "
What is "Kill or be killed. Eat or be eaten."
500
When Buck first starts to answer the call, he makes friends with this animal.
What is a timber wolf?
500
Marked by carelessness
What is slipshod?
500
An expression of protest or complaint
What is metamorphosis?
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