Buck's life with Judge Miller is leisurely, calm, and unchallenging, while his transition to the wilderness shows him a life that is savage, frenetic, and demanding. This shows the author's use of___________.
What is a paradox?
100
Three settings of the novel.
What are California and up through Canada towards Alaska?
100
A seasoned gold prospector, saves Buck from being beaten to death by the odious Hal and then becomes Buck’s master
Who is John Thorton?
100
The climate was set on a path of apparently inexorable warming, perhaps beyond the powers of today's politicians to reverse.
Inexorable means_______________.
What is relentless; not to be persuaded?
200
He was ________________through the snow when the sled malfunctioned.
What is perambulating?
200
The point of view from which the story is told.
What is third-person omniscient?
200
This place symbolizes an eden like paradise where Buck is pampered.
What is Judge Miller's home?
200
He is prone to visions of more primitive worlds, and sometimes he sees the humans around him as ancient men, wearing animal skins and living in caves or trees.
Who is Buck?
200
I haven't heard the plaint of the family that the BBC is acting like the unofficial opposition for a while?
Plaint means_________.
What is a plea?
300
It was Buck's ____________to be part of the pack of timberwolves.
What is prerogative?
300
The Membership of the Individual in the Group, the Indispensable Struggle for Mastery, the Power of Ancestral Memory and Primitive Instincts are all__________in the novel.
What are themes?
300
The turning point of the novel when Buck’s sled team (minus Buck) crashes through thin ice and drowns.
What is the climax?
300
Spoiled and unreasonable—“it was her custom to be helpless."
Who is Mercedes?
300
How is it that her sighings did not rend thy walls apart?
Rend means_________.
What is to tear?
400
A synonym of conspicuous.
What is salient?
400
"Thus, as token of what a puppet thing life is the ancient song surged through him and he came into his own again."
What figures of speech are used by the author in this quotation?
What are metaphors?
400
When Buck leaves the civilized world this is the denouement or_______________of the novel.
What is the resolution?
400
Buck’s archrival and the original leader of Francois’s dog team
Who is Spitz?
400
And if he doesn't regret it, and remains obdurate, we shall just have to kill him.
Obdurate means___________.
What is resistant to persuasion; inflexible?
500
His____________hands couldn't stop shaking.
What is palpitant?
500
The conflict that occurs during the exposition or beginning of the novel.
What is that Buck is stolen by Manuel and sold to the man in the red sweater?
500
Adventure is the____________of the novel.
What is the genre?
500
A gardener’s helper on Judge Miller’s estate.He kidnaps Buck and sells him in order to pay off his gambling debts.
Who is Manuel?
500
The tall skyscraper was quite salient.
Salient means___________.