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Part IV– Chapter 4: The Clinging Death

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Questions

1) Which of the following is the most complete and accurate summary of this chapter?

2) Why does White Fang hesitate to attack his enemy when the fight first starts?

3) Which two reasons does the author give to explain why White Fang's usual strategy of attack didn't work with the bulldog?

4) What happens to White Fang for "the first time in his fighting history"?

5) The first time it began to look like the battle was over, how did Beauty get White Fang to fight again?

6) When the crowd watching the fight hears bells and the cries of dog–mushers, they looked "apprehensively" in the direction of the noise.

What does the word "apprehensively" mean as used in this chapter?

7) Based on details in this chapter, why does Weedon Scott choose to buy White Fang from Beauty?

8) What does Weedon have to do to be able to take White Fang home with him?

9) Were there any events that weren't clear to you?