| A | B |
|---|
| lacerate | to rip, cut or tear |
| soliloquized | to speak one's thoughts aloud, to talk to oneself |
| frothy | foamy, made of or covered in foam |
| courier | a messenger |
| idle | to pass time without working or while avoiding work |
| callowness | a person's lack of adult maturity or experience |
| spasmodically | to do something in a fitful or excitable way: behaving with sudden outbursts of energy or feeling |
| pandemonium | a very noisy place or a wild uproar or noise |
| primordial | of or relating to the earliest state or stage, little evolved from an ancestral type |
| lugubriously | to do something or behave in a mournful, dismal or gloomy way |
| What is Buck? | A dog, half St Bernard and half Scottish Shepard |
| Buck live at the beginning of the novel? | The Santa Clara Valley, in California |
| Who is Buck's first master? | Judge Miller |
| Who kidnaps Buck from his home? | Manuel |
| Which dog gets killed immediately upon her arrival in the North? | Dolly |
| Who is Buck's great rival on the team of dogs? | Spitz |
| What event interrupts a fight between Buck & Spitz? | An attack by wild dogs |
| What event brings about the final confrontation between Buck & Spitz? | A dispute over food |
| What does Buck demand after Spitz's death? | To be the lead dog |
| Who buys Buck & the other dogs when they are sold by the mail delivery company? | The Scotch half breed |
| Which dog refuses to be taken out of the traces, even though he was sick and dying? | Dave |
| How does John Thornton save Buck's | He stops Hal from beating him to death |
| What happens to Hal, Charles & Mercedes after they leave John Thornton? | Their sled team breaks through the ice and they drown |
| How does Buck save John Thornton's life? | Buck pulls him to safety when he is caught in the rapids |
| What bet does John Thornton win with matthewson? | That Buck can move a sled with 1,000 pounds |
| What sends Thornton & his friends into the wilderness? | The search for gold |
| What happens to John Thornton? | He is killed by Indians |
| What does Buck learn when he attacks the Indians? | That he can kill men as long as they are not armed |
| What did the Yeehat Indians think that Buck was? | The coming of the Evil Spirit |
| In later years, what do the Yeehat Indians fear? | Ghost Dog |
| What does Buck do at the end of the novel? | He joins a wolf pack and becomes a legendary figure in the wild |
