White Fang
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50 free White Fang trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
White Fang turns a familiar dog story inside out. Its hero is born in a northern cave, three parts wolf, and the novel follows him from the frozen forest through hunger, cruelty and the fighting pit to a sunlit porch in the south. Much of it is told from the animal's own point of view, which is why readers keep arguing about it more than a century on. This quiz covers the whole book in order: the wolf pack that stalks two travellers in the opening chapters, the cub's first hunts, his years in a Native camp, the men who own him in turn, and the family he finally chooses to protect. A handful of questions step outside the story to look at how it was written and published and at the screen versions it inspired. It is written for students revising for a class test or a reading quiz, teachers who want a ready-made set of questions over the novel, and readers who loved the story and want to see how much has stuck. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you can play straight through or print the set as a worksheet with an answer key.
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Q 01Which breed of dog nearly kills White Fang in his last pit fight by clamping onto his throat?
A bulldog
A bulldog, the first of its breed ever seen in the Klondike, stood too low to be knocked off its feet. It worked its grip slowly towards the windpipe until two strangers forced its jaws apart.
Q 02Which Native hunter recognises the cub's mother as his dead brother's dog and gives White Fang his name?
Grey Beaver
Grey Beaver chose the name on the spot when the snarling cub bared his teeth and the men remarked how white they were. He becomes the wolf-dog's first master.
Q 03Which American author, who joined the Klondike gold rush himself at 21, wrote White Fang?
Jack London
Jack London sailed north in July 1897 and later set his best-known stories there. The novel first ran as a magazine serial in 1906 before appearing as a book that October.
Q 04Which earlier novel about a stolen pet dog that ends up running with wolves does White Fang mirror in reverse?
The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild follows Buck from a sunny ranch to the wolves, and the later book runs the same road backwards. Both grew out of one winter their author spent in the Klondike.
Q 05Which animals does White Fang kill by the dozen at Weedon Scott's family home before learning to leave them alone?
Chickens
Chickens seemed lawful prey to him, and one night he killed fifty of them. After a scolding from his master he spent a whole afternoon locked in their yard and simply went to sleep.
Q 06Who breaks into the judge's house at the climax of White Fang and dies in a fight with the wolf-dog?
An escaped convict
An escaped convict named Jim Hall had sworn revenge on the judge who sentenced him, unaware that the judge had been fed false evidence. The dog was shot three times stopping him and barely lived.
Q 07What are the two men hauling by dog sled through wolf country in the opening chapters of White Fang?
A coffin
A coffin holding the body of a young lord is lashed to the sled, bound for a distant outpost. When only one man is left, he hoists it into a tree so the wolves cannot reach it.
Q 08What does a scheming dog-fighter keep bringing White Fang's first master until the dog is traded away for more of it?
Whisky
Whisky drained the money the hunter had earned trading furs, mittens and moccasins, and then his temper. In the end he handed over his best sled dog for a few more bottles.
Q 09Which US president mocked a fight scene in White Fang and branded its author a nature faker?
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt called the scene the height of absurdity in 1907. The author replied in an essay the next year that his dog stories were a protest against humanising animals.
Q 10Which sound does White Fang manage only twice in his life, the second time to bring help for his injured master?
A bark
A bark finally burst out of him at the house after Weedon Scott broke a leg in a riding fall and sent him home. The family, baffled by his growling and tugging, at last understood and followed him.
Q 11Which cowardly cook at a northern trading post buys White Fang and torments him into a savage pit fighter?
Beauty Smith
Beauty Smith owed his nickname to a joke about his ugliness. He kept the dog chained or caged, beat him often, and charged men fifty cents in gold dust for a look.
Q 12What is the name of White Fang's mother, a half-wolf sled dog who ran off to live with a wolf pack?
Kiche
Kiche had fled her owner's camp a year earlier, when there was no meat for the dogs. Among the wolves she acted as a decoy, tempting sled dogs away from their teams to be eaten.
Q 13What is the profession of Weedon Scott, the man who breaks up the pit fight and buys White Fang?
A mining expert
Q 21How does the last surviving sled driver hold back the wolf pack at the start of White Fang until rescuers arrive?
A circle of fire
A circle of fire kept him alive through one more night, and he crouched inside it on his bedding while the wolves sat close enough to enjoy the warmth. He was dozing, the flames dying, when help came.
Q 22Which northern bird's nest does the cub White Fang tumble into on his first day outside the cave?
A ptarmigan
A ptarmigan brood of seven chicks became his first kill, eaten on the spot. Their mother then pecked his nose until he let go and fled, his first lesson that bigger prey hits back.
Q 23What does the newborn White Fang believe the bright mouth of his cave to be, before he ever crawls outside?
A mining expert with friends among the Klondike's officials, he could threaten to have the dog's owner run out of town. He forced $150 on the man and carried the half-dead animal away.
Q 14Which battle-scarred old wolf kills a younger rival to win the she-wolf and becomes White Fang's father?
One Eye
One Eye had only his left eye, which may be why he always ran at the she-wolf's right side. He hunted for her and their cubs until he met an enemy he could not beat.
Q 15Which predator kills White Fang's father, leaving the she-wolf to feed her cub alone?
A lynx
A lynx with kittens of her own proved too much for the ageing wolf. His mate later raided the lair, then killed the mother in a fight in the cave while the cub bit at a hind leg.
Q 16Which older puppy in the Native camp bullies White Fang for months and turns the other young dogs against him?
Lip-lip
Lip-lip won every early scrap, so the cub never learned to play and grew up a sullen loner. Years later, in a time of hunger, the two met in the woods and the bully did not walk away.
Q 17What human reaction, turned on White Fang himself, throws the proud wolf-dog into a blind rage?
Laughter
Laughter shamed him as a cub, when the whole camp roared at his burnt nose, and he never forgot it. Only Weedon Scott could chuckle at him safely, and the dog learned to romp in reply.
Q 18In which city does White Fang come ashore from the North into a bewildering world of cable cars and tall buildings?
San Francisco
San Francisco terrified him with its crowds and clanging cable cars, and he was then chained in a baggage car for the rail journey inland. The novel's author knew those streets well: he was born there.
Q 19What name do the women of the judge's household give White Fang after he saves the family from an intruder?
The Blessed Wolf
The Blessed Wolf was first spoken by Weedon Scott's wife on the day the last bandage came off, and the other women took it up. The judge, long a doubter of the animal, adopted the name too.
Q 20What first tells the two sled drivers at the start of White Fang that a wolf has slipped in among their dogs?
A missing fish
A missing fish gives her away: six are handed out to six dogs, yet one dog goes hungry because a seventh mouth took a share. The visitor turns out to know the ways of camps very well.
A wall of light
A wall of light was all he could make of it, since the only world he knew was closed in on every side. It puzzled him that his father could walk straight into it and vanish.
Q 24Which word for human beings appears in three chapter titles of White Fang, reflecting how the wolf-dog sees his masters?
Gods
Gods is the narration's word for people throughout, since they make warmth, hand out meat and strike from a distance. Native hunters are the first he meets; white men strike him as a superior kind.
Q 25Which actor played the young gold hunter who befriends the wolf-dog in Disney's 1991 film of White Fang?
Ethan Hawke
Ethan Hawke worked opposite a wolf-dog and a trained bear on a shoot that lasted five months. His character, a young prospector, was invented for the screen and appears nowhere in the novel.
Q 26Why does White Fang's first master hand the cub's mother over to another hunter who is leaving by canoe?
To settle a debt
To settle a debt, she went along with a strip of scarlet cloth, a bearskin and twenty cartridges. The cub was a yearling before he saw her again, and by then she had a new litter and drove him off.
Q 27Which dog on Weedon Scott's family estate nags White Fang for months before becoming mother to his puppies?
Collie
Collie could not forgive his wolfish looks, since her kind had guarded flocks against his kind for generations. The book ends with him dozing in the sun while her puppies clamber over him.
Q 28In which Klondike boomtown is White Fang put on show in a cage and matched against all comers?
Dawson
Dawson was the heart of the gold rush, and there he was prodded with a stick so paying crowds saw him rage. His fights were held in the woods outside town to dodge the Mounted Police.
Q 29Which illness cost the author of White Fang his front teeth and ended his own Klondike adventure after one winter?
Scurvy
Scurvy was common among gold seekers who wintered without fresh food. He left the next summer with no fortune, but with the raw material for his northern tales.
Q 30What kills White Fang's brothers and sisters, leaving him the only cub of the litter to survive?
A famine
A famine struck while the cubs were tiny, and four of the five faded away in the den. He was the fiercest of the litter and the only one with his father's colouring.