The Call of the Wild: Chapter 1
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Chapter questions
- Question 1 · Recall
Whose estate in the Santa Clara Valley is Buck's home at the start of the story?
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It is Judge Miller's place, a big house where Buck rules over the other dogs.Reference: Chapter 1, Buck's home
- Question 2 · Recall
Who buys Buck in Seattle and takes him aboard the Narwhal?
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Perrault, a French-Canadian courier who is buying dogs with government money.Reference: Chapter 1, the sale in Seattle
- Question 3 · Recall
What does the man in the red sweater use to teach Buck his lesson?
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A club. He knocks Buck down each time Buck charges, until Buck cannot rise.Reference: Chapter 1, the Seattle back yard
- Question 4 · Why
Why does Manuel, the gardener's helper, take Buck away and sell him?
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He loves to gamble on the Chinese lottery, and his wages do not cover what his family needs, so he wants the money.Reference: Chapter 1, the night at College Park
- Question 5 · Why
Why does Buck stop fighting the man in the red sweater, even though he is not broken?
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He sees that he has no chance against a man with a club. He learns that such a man is a master to be obeyed, though not necessarily befriended.Reference: Chapter 1, Buck's thoughts after the beating
Chapter summary
Buck, a large dog with a St. Bernard father and a shepherd mother, rules a big estate in California's Santa Clara Valley in 1897. He does not know that the Klondike gold rush has made strong dogs valuable. One night a gardener's helper with a gambling habit leads him out through the orchard and hands him to a stranger at a railway station. A rope goes around Buck's neck. He fights, and he is choked senseless. He is shipped to San Francisco and locked in a crate. He then rides by express car to Seattle, going two days and nights without food or water. There a man in a red sweater opens the crate with a hatchet. Buck charges again and again, and each time a club knocks him down. He is beaten but not broken. He learns that a man with a club is a lawgiver. Later a French-Canadian courier named Perrault buys Buck. Buck is taken below on the Narwhal along with a Newfoundland named Curly. They sail north on the Narwhal with a second driver, François. Buck feels snow for the first time.
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