Call of the Wild

Scavenger Hunt

Questions- Match the answer to thequestion on your review sheet (You didn’t think I’d make it too

easy for you, did you?)

• Curly

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• Couriers for the Canadian government

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• A pack of wild, starving dogs attacks the camp.

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• Manuel, the gardener’s assistant

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• Spitz

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• Judge Miller

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• Scotch half breed.

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• The dogs fall through the ice.

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• Buck saves John Thornton from drowning in the river.

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• Mercedes rides on the sled.

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• John Thornton’s camp has been attacked, and everyone is dead.

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• Dub finds a snowshoe rabbit in camp, and the team chases it.

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• Hal, Charles, and Mercedes fall through the ice.

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• John Thornton stops Hal from beating Buck, then cuts him out of the traces.

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• Buck fights with imagination, and uses it against Spitz. He used the shoulder trick, but at the last minute, goes low and bites Spitz’s foreleg.

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• Buck becomes wild, joins a pack of wolves, and becomes its leader.

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• John Thornton, Pete, and Hans are looking for the Lost Cabin, a legendary lost mine.

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• Half St. Bernard, half Scotch shepherd

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• Buck will break a sled out of ice, then pull it with 1000 pounds on it for 100 yards.

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• Buck attacks Black Burton.

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• Buck has killed man, the noblest game of all, but they died easily.

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• Buck travels by wagon, truck, train, and boat.

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• Judge Miller’s ranch in Santa Clara, California

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• Buck spent hours by the fire, and remembered the pre-historic man (hairy man).

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• Dogs that go down in a fight will be killed.

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• A moose

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• 8-9.

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• Yeehats, an Indian tribe, shoot & kill John Thornton with arrows.

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• snow

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• Buck attacks Spitz for trespassing.

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• Boots for Buck’s feet.

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• Spitz left the pack, and cut across to cut Buck off from the rabbit.

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• The lead

Vocabulary- Match the definition to your vocabulary word on your

review sheet.

uneasy or fearful about something that might happen

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Any complete change in appearance, character, circumstances, etc.

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Immature or inexperienced.

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wintry

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Violation of faith; betrayal of trust.

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Extremely hungry; famished; voracious.

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pertaining to or existing at or from the very beginning

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wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos

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Inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive.

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being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence

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exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger

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to appease or pacify

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an insulting gibe or sarcasm; scornful reproach or challenge

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of or pertaining to the night

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hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort

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a great misfortune or disaster

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lacking in variety; tediously unvarying

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a descendant or offspring, as a child, plant, or animal

Characters- Identify the character on your review sheet.

dog who just wanted to be left alone; fell ill during the journey and refused to be taken out of the traces

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wife of Charles, cried when she had to discard her clothes for the journey

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brother of Mercedes, kept traveling the trail against the advice of everyone, miscalculated the amount of dog food needed for the trip

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she suddenly went mad and attacked Buck

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government courier, navigator of the sled dog team, honored Buck by checking his feet

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protagonist, adapts to life in the wild with the help of his instincts

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saved Buck from Hal and Charles, earned his love and trust

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antagonist, laughed when Curly died, original leader of the team

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brother-in-law to Hal, bought the sled-dogs “for a song”

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kind friend of Buck’s, was killed right after they arrived at Dyea beach

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brother to Joe, tries to please everyone

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grouchy, snapping sled-dog, one of the last remaining five

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Indian tribe who are afraid of the Ghost Dog

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“angry one”; blind in one eye; sled dog.

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owner of the first sled-dog team, was fair and just to the dogs