The Call of the Wild: Chapter 4
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Chapter questions
- Question 1 · Recall
Which dog does François first put in Spitz's old place at the front of the team?
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Sol-leks, whom he judges the best lead dog left.Reference: Chapter 4, harnessing the next morning
- Question 2 · Recall
How fast is the run to Skaguay?
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It is a record run. For fourteen days the team averages forty miles a day.Reference: Chapter 4, the run to Skaguay
- Question 3 · Recall
What do the dogs hear behind the belt of river timber after Dave is left behind?
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A revolver shot. Buck and every dog know what it means.Reference: Chapter 4, the end of the mail train's day
- Question 4 · Why
Why does Buck refuse to be put back in his old place behind the leader?
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He believes the lead is his by right, because he earned it by beating Spitz. He is not trying to avoid a beating, and he will not accept less.Reference: Chapter 4, the standoff with François and Perrault
- Question 5 · Why
Why do the drivers let the sick Dave go back into the traces?
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They recall dogs that broke their hearts when cut out of their work. Since Dave is going to die anyway, they think it a mercy that he die in harness, content.Reference: Chapter 4, the halt on the trail
Chapter summary
Next morning François finds Spitz gone and Buck wounded. He puts Sol-leks in the lead position, but Buck drives Sol-leks out and takes the place himself. François and Perrault chase him for nearly an hour with clubs. At last Perrault tells François to throw down the club, and Buck trots in to the front. As leader he proves better than Spitz and brings the team back into order. They make a record run to Skaguay, averaging forty miles a day for fourteen days. Then François and Perrault pass out of Buck's life, and a new driver takes the team back to Dawson with the mail. The work is heavy, and the dogs wear down. By the fire Buck sometimes sees a short-legged, hairy man from a much earlier age. Dave, hurt inside, falls again and again. When the driver takes him out of the traces, he fights to keep his place and bites through Sol-leks's traces. The drivers let him pull. Next morning he cannot go on and is left behind, and a shot rings out.
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