Call of the Wild
Scavenger Hunt
Questions- Match the answer to the
question on your review sheet
(You didn’t think I’d make it too easy
for you, did you?)
• Curly
Questions
• Couriers for the Canadian
government
Questions
• A pack of wild, starving dogs
attacks the camp.
Questions
• Manuel, the gardener’s
assistant
Questions
• Spitz
Questions
• Judge Miller
Questions
• Scotch half breed.
Questions
• The dogs fall through the ice.
Questions
• Buck saves John Thornton from
drowning in the river.
Questions
• Mercedes rides on the sled.
Questions
• John Thornton’s camp has been
attacked, and everyone is dead.
Questions
• Dub finds a snowshoe rabbit in
camp, and the team chases it.
Questions
• Hal, Charles, and Mercedes fall
through the ice.
Questions
• John Thornton stops Hal from
beating Buck, then cuts him out
of the traces.
Questions
• 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.
Questions
• Buck becomes wild, joins a pack
of wolves, and becomes its
leader.
Questions
• John Thornton, Pete, and Hans
are looking for the Lost Cabin, a
legendary lost mine.
Questions
• Half St. Bernard, half Scotch
shepherd
Questions
• Buck will break a sled out of
ice, then pull it with 1000
pounds on it for 100 yards.
Questions
• Buck attacks Black Burton.
Questions
• Buck has killed man, the noblest
game of all, but they died easily.
Questions
• Buck travels by wagon, truck,
train, and boat.
Questions
• Judge Miller’s ranch in Santa
Clara, California
Questions
• Buck spent hours by the fire,
and remembered the prehistoric man (hairy man).
Questions
• Dogs that go down in a fight will
be killed.
Questions
• A moose
Questions
• 8-9.
Questions
• Yeehats, an Indian tribe, shoot
& kill John Thornton with
arrows.
Questions
• snow
Questions
• Buck attacks Spitz for trespassing.
Questions
• Boots for Buck’s feet.
Questions
• Spitz left the pack, and cut
across to cut Buck off from the
rabbit.
Questions
• The lead
Vocabulary- Match the definition
to your vocabulary word on your
review sheet.
uneasy or fearful about something that might
happen
Vocabulary
Any complete change in appearance,
character, circumstances, etc.
Vocabulary
Immature or inexperienced.
Vocabulary
wintry
Vocabulary
Violation of faith; betrayal of trust.
Vocabulary
Extremely hungry; famished; voracious.
Vocabulary
pertaining to or existing at or from the very
beginning
Vocabulary
wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or
chaos
Vocabulary
Inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive.
Vocabulary
being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence
Vocabulary
exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave
risk; jeopardy; danger
Vocabulary
to appease or pacify
Vocabulary
an insulting gibe or sarcasm; scornful reproach
or challenge
Vocabulary
of or pertaining to the night
Vocabulary
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort
Vocabulary
a great misfortune or disaster
Vocabulary
lacking in variety; tediously unvarying
Vocabulary
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
Characters
wife of Charles, cried when she had to discard
her clothes for the journey
Characters
brother of Mercedes, kept traveling the trail
against the advice of everyone,
miscalculated the amount of dog food
needed for the trip
Characters
she suddenly went mad and attacked Buck
Characters
government courier, navigator of the sled dog
team, honored Buck by checking his feet
Characters
protagonist, adapts to life in the wild with the
help of his instincts
Characters
saved Buck from Hal and Charles, earned his
love and trust
Characters
antagonist, laughed when Curly died, original
leader of the team
Characters
brother-in-law to Hal, bought the sled-dogs “for
a song”
Characters
kind friend of Buck’s, was killed right after they
arrived at Dyea beach
Characters
brother to Joe, tries to please everyone
Characters
grouchy, snapping sled-dog, one of the last
remaining five
Characters
Indian tribe who are afraid of the Ghost Dog
Characters
“angry one”; blind in one eye; sled dog.
Characters
owner of the first sled-dog team, was fair and
just to the dogs