Q 01/05

Which breed of dog nearly kills White Fang in his last pit fight by clamping onto his throat?

A) A mastiff

B) A bulldog

C) A Great Dane

D) A Newfoundland

Answer · why

B) 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 ...

Q 02/05

Which Native hunter recognises the cub's mother as his dead brother's dog and gives White Fang his name?

A) Three Eagles

B) Salmon Tongue

C) Grey Beaver

D) Mit-sah

Answer · why

C) 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...

Q 03/05

Which American author, who joined the Klondike gold rush himself at 21, wrote White Fang?

A) Jack London

B) Mark Twain

C) Zane Grey

D) Ernest Hemingway

Answer · why

A) 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...

Q 04/05

Which earlier novel about a stolen pet dog that ends up running with wolves does White Fang mirror in reverse?

A) The Sea-Wolf

B) A Daughter of the Snows

C) The Call of the Wild

D) The Son of the Wolf

Answer · why

C) 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...

Q 05/05

Which animals does White Fang kill by the dozen at Weedon Scott's family home before learning to leave them alone?

A) Sheep

B) Pheasants

C) Rabbits

D) Chickens

Answer · why

D) 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...