Q 01/05

What is the name of the St. Bernard-Scotch Shepherd mix at the center of The Call of the Wild?

A) Spike

B) Duke

C) Rex

D) Buck

Answer · why

D) Buck

Buck starts the novel as a pampered 140-pound pet in California's Santa Clara Valley, until a gardener's helper sells him north to pay gambling debts.

Q 02/05

Which 1906 Jack London novel follows a wolfdog's journey from the wild to domestication?

A) White Fang

B) The Sea-Wolf

C) Jerry of the Islands

D) Before Adam

Answer · why

A) White Fang

White Fang was written as a companion to The Call of the Wild and runs the journey in reverse: a wild wolfdog ends up a loyal pet on a California esta...

Q 03/05

In which California city was Jack London born?

A) Los Angeles

B) San Diego

C) San Francisco

D) Sacramento

Answer · why

C) San Francisco

San Francisco was his birthplace, and thirty years later he went back as a reporter to describe the city's destruction in the 1906 earthquake and fire...

Q 04/05

Jack London was born John Griffith Chaney; whose surname did he take as a baby?

A) His uncle's

B) His stepfather's

C) His godfather's

D) His grandfather's

Answer · why

B) His stepfather's

His stepfather's name stuck: his mother married the Civil War veteran John London later in 1876, and the baby born John Griffith Chaney grew up as Jac...

Q 05/05

Jack London's memoir John Barleycorn, published three years before he died at 40, is about his struggle with what?

A) Gambling

B) Alcohol

C) Opium

D) Debt

Answer · why

B) Alcohol

Alcohol was the lifelong battle the memoir describes; his doctors urged him to stop drinking, he refused, and he was dead at 40.