Characters
Setting & Context
Plot & Events
Themes & Ideas
Catholic Connections
100

Who Buck is at the beginning of the book vs. the end

What is at the beginning he was a proud house dog but at the end he became humble and accustomed to work?

100

What the Klondike Gold Rush is

What is gold was found in the Yukon and thousands of people rushed there to get rich?

100

Why Buck is stolen by Manuel

What is Manuel was addicted to gambling so he sold Buck to get money to bet?

100

What the law of club and fang is.

What is people enforce the rules with clubs and things while dogs fight pretty viciously for survival?

100

What true authority is

What is people obey you not because they are scared to be punished if they don't it's when they obey you because they love you and know that you want the best for them?

200

Who Spitz is and why he is a poor leader

What is Spitz is a dog from a foreign land who is a poor leader because he is cruel?

200

Why sled dogs were valuable

What is people needed sled dogs to haul them and their stores of supplies, also sled dogs had thick coats, were strong and fast, and generally very hardy, durable dogs?

200

What happens to Curly

What is she was eaten and destroyed by the huskies after making friendly advances towards them?

200

What leadership means in Call of the Wild.

What is leadership means being just, kind, and not cruel, leading each other into safe places and away from danger?

200

How Buck shows responsibility

What is by taking a sound beating from Hal in order to try to save the team from breaking through the ice?

300

Why John Thornton is important

What is he is the only man who truly loved Buck?

300

How the environment affects survival

What is the dangers of the Yukon vary depending on the season; ice may crack, bears may come out of hibernation, temperatures may get too cold to handle, etc?

300

How Buck becomes leader

What is Buck fought Spitz for the leadership and won by breaking Spitz's forelegs?

300

How Buck learns wisdom in the Call of the Wild.

What is he learns from experience and from other dogs as well as his masters?

300

Where justice is shown in the Call of the Wild

What is when the leaders of the team punish shirkers and Buck is taught the ropes by Dave and Sol-leks?

400

What role Judge Miller plays

What is the first owner of Buck who lives in California?:})

400

What the dangers are that exist in the Yukon

What are bears, wolves, melting and cracking ice?

400

Why Buck refuses to pull the sled for Hal and Mercedes

What is because he knew that the ice would fall and refused to let his team fall down?

400

What the "call of the wild" is.

What is a spiritual ancestral call from nature, calling him to live as a wild dog?

400

How memory shapes Buck's actions

What is Buck finds ancestral memories of the wild and learns from the memories how best to survive in the wild?

500

Why Hal, Charles & Mercedes fail

What is they over-rationed the dogs and went on the trail where the ice could fall out from underneath them and whipped the dogs?

500

Why setting is crucial to the story

What is the setting is important because many of the dangers of the Yukon are environment related?

500

What happens after John Thornton dies

What is Buck responds to the call of the wild?

500

How Buck's journey ends

What is Buck answers and obeys the call of the wild, running and breeding with the wolves, becoming a wild dog?

500

How Buck's journey relates to vocation

What is the call of the wild asks Buck to come and be as he was made to be, just as God calls us each in our own specified ways to do what He has made us to do?