The Call of the Wild Chapter 2 Quiz

The Call of the Wild Chapter 2 questions

The answers and an explanation for each question appear as you play, and on the answer-key page of the printout.

1. What happens to Curly on the beach at Dyea?
   She runs off into the wild · She is sold to a passing miner · She is killed by a pack of huskies · She becomes the new lead dog
2. How does Spitz react to Curly's death?
   He tries to drive the huskies away · He laughs, and Buck hates him from then on · He hides under the sled in fear · He mourns beside her body all night
3. How does Buck learn to keep warm at night?
   By digging a hole and sleeping under the snow · By sneaking into the men's warm tent · By curling up right beside the campfire · By sleeping in the blankets on the sled
4. What does Buck's first theft of food show about him?
   He has always been a thief at heart · He is being trained by Perrault to steal · He is too weak to hunt for himself · His Southland morality is falling away
5. What does the chapter title 'The Law of Club and Fang' sum up?
   The North is ruled by fair laws · Dogs and men live as equals there · Survival in the North depends on force · Only the club, not fangs, matters

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Original questions written for Pagine. Quotations are from the public-domain text.