The Call of the Wild: Chapter 6
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Chapter questions
- Question 1 · Recall
Which of Thornton's dogs cleans Buck's wounds while he recovers?
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Skeet, a little Irish setter, who washes Buck's wounds each morning the way a mother cat washes her kittens.Reference: Chapter 6, Buck's recovery by the river
- Question 2 · Recall
What does Buck do when Thornton, on a whim, tells him to jump over the cliff?
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He starts to jump. Thornton grapples with him on the edge, and Hans and Pete drag them both back.Reference: Chapter 6, the cliff above the bed-rock
- Question 3 · Recall
What does Thornton claim Buck can do, in the bet at the Eldorado Saloon?
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Start a sled loaded with a thousand pounds of flour, break it out, and walk off with it. Matthewson sets the distance at a hundred yards.Reference: Chapter 6, the Eldorado Saloon
- Question 4 · Why
Why does Buck attack the man named Burton in Circle City?
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Burton, who was picking a quarrel with a tenderfoot, struck Thornton when Thornton stepped between them, and Buck was watching his master.Reference: Chapter 6, the bar in Circle City
- Question 5 · Why
Why does Buck pull so hard in the test with the thousand-pound sled?
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The text ties it to his love for John Thornton. Thornton whispers to him "As you love me," and Buck answers by taking his hand gently in his teeth.Reference: Chapter 6, the street outside the saloon
Chapter summary
John Thornton nurses Buck back to health by the river while the spring days pass. Skeet, a small Irish setter, cleans Buck's wounds, and Nig, a huge black dog, is another friendly companion. Buck feels deep love for the first time, and Thornton is the ideal master. Yet Buck also hears a call from the forest, and only his love for Thornton draws him back to the fire. Thornton's partners, Hans and Pete, arrive on a raft, and the group heads toward the Tanana. At a cliff Thornton tests Buck's obedience with a thoughtless command, and he grabs Buck as Buck starts to obey. In Circle City, Buck attacks a man named Burton, and a miners' meeting clears him. On Forty-Mile Creek Buck saves Thornton from the rapids, though he is found to have three broken ribs. In Dawson, in the Eldorado Saloon, Thornton boasts about Buck's strength. Matthewson doubts the claim and sets the terms, and Jim O'Brien lends Thornton the stake. Buck breaks out the sled and wins the bet.
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