Characters
Dogs
Life on the Trail
Miscellaneous
Vocabulary
100

This person rubs Buck's feet every night and made him moccasins. 

Francois 

100

This dog goes "mad" and chases Buck. 

Dolly

100

What "big" outpost town is the team heading toward?

Dawson

100

"Buck got a frothing adversary by the throat, and was sprayed with blood when his teeth sank through the jugular. The warm taste of it in his mouth goaded him to greater fierceness."

What is an acceptable synonym to replace "goaded"?

A. frightened 

B. silenced 

C. encouraged


C. encouraged

100

His ____________ was impressive considering he had just hit a walk-off homerun. 

A. awe

B. humility

C. valid

B. Humility

200

Goes ahead of the sled team to check the ice and pack down the snow. 

Perrault

200

When the huge group of huskies attacked the sled dogs and their camp, tell which dog blindsided another one from the team?

Spitz attacked Buck

200

Why had the team grown "unruly" during the last days of Spitz's being alive?

Buck disrupted the normal leadership. Challenged Spitz's role as leader. 

200

This dog is put in Spitz's lead position on the sled and Buck objects by attacking him. 

Sol-leks

200

Uncontrollable emotion

A. Woe

B. Tranquility

C. Hysteria

C. Hysteria

300

Takes over the sled team (new master)

Scotch half-breed

300

This dog kills the rabbit that leads the whole pack, and over 100 other dogs, on a wild chase. 

Spitz

300

Why is new-fallen snow something miserable for a sled team?

It's harder to travel through. The snow isn't packed down, so the sled travels slower through it. 

300

"He had been gripped by that nameless incomprehensible pride of the trail and trace"

"he harked back through the ages of fire and roof to the raw beginnings of life in the howling ages."

"stirring of old instincts.... of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time."

These are all examples of...

atavism

300

She had a ____________ driver's license. 

A. awed

B. valid

C. wholesome

B. valid

400

What Buck lazily dreams about while lying by the fire at night?

Ancestors/cavemen

400

These two huskies are the last ones added in Ch. 4. 

Teek and Koona

400

[Dave's] driver lingered a moment to a get a light for his pipe from the man behind. Then he returned and started his dogs. They swung out on the trail with remarkable lack of exertion, turned their heads uneasily, and stopped in surprise. The driver was surprised, too; the sled had not moved."

Why had it not moved?

Dave chewed through the traces and was standing in his rightful spot. 

400

"Buck laughed" when Francois tried to put him back in his regular position in the sled. 

What term describes giving human qualities to animals?

anthropomorphism

400

Which is the correct spelling?

A. Anonymous

B. Anyonmous

C. Anonymus

A. Anonymous

500

Title of the person who controls each sled. 

driver

500

This dog hid from Spitz one morning, and sent Spitz into a rage when he couldn't find them. 

Pike

500

Before uses two strategies to win the final battle against Spitz. What are they?

breaks his legs and knocks him down

500

What is this quote an example of?

"Dat Buck two devils...some dam fine day heem get mad lak hell an' den heem chew dat Spitz up an' spit heem out on de snow."

foreshadowing

500

Which vocab word describes what happens to Dave at the end of Ch. 4?

perish

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