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Act 1

Text of Book

Act 1, page 1

Act 1, page 2

Act 1, page 3

Act 1, page 4

Act 1, page 5

Questions

1) What is this act mainly about?

2) What is the ghost wearing?

3) Whose tragic death does Horatio compare King Hamlet's to?

4) Who is the father of Laertes?

5) Nearly how many months have passed since the death of King Hamlet?

6) What "followed hard upon" the funeral of King Hamlet?

7) When Hamlet decides to speak with the ghost, what does he tell Horatio and the others to do?

8) When speaking with Ophelia, what does Polonius compare Hamlet's vows to?

9) What does Claudius customarily spend his nights doing?

10) What does Horatio worry the ghost might do?

11) How did King Hamlet die?

12) What does Hamlet say he will pretend to be?

13) What does Claudius mean in the quote below?

"Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death
The memory be green, and that it us befitted
To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom
To be contracted in one brow of woe,
Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature
That we with wisest sorrow think on him
Together with remembrance of ourselves."

14) What does Hamlet mean in the quote below?

"But I have that within which passeth show–
These but the trappings and the suits of woe."

15) What does Ophelia mean in the quote below?
"Do not as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own rede.

16) What does the ghost mean in the quote below?

"But virtue, as it never will be mov'd,
Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,
So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd,
Will sate itself in a celestial bed
And prey on garbage.

17) What does Hamlet mean in the quote below?

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

18) Look where Horatio says that Fortinbras is gathering thugs "For food and diet, to some enterprise
That hath a stomach in't." What does "enterprise" mean in this context?

19) Look where Claudius says to Hamlet, "You are the most immediate to our throne,
And with no less nobility of love
Than that which dearest father bears his son
Do I impart toward you."

What does "impart" mean in this sentence?

20) Look where the ghost says "My hour is almost come,
When I to sulph'rous and tormenting flames
Must render up myself."

What does "render" mean in this context?

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

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Part V– Chapter 5: The Sleeping Wolf, page 8

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Then came the day when the last bandage and the last plaster cast were taken off. It was a gala day. All Sierra Vista was gathered around. The master rubbed his ears, and he crooned his love–growl. The master's wife called him the "Blessed Wolf," which name was taken up with acclaim and all the women called him the Blessed Wolf.

He tried to rise to his feet, and after several attempts fell down from weakness. He had lain so long that his muscles had lost their cunning, and all the strength had gone out of them. He felt a little shame because of his weakness, as though, forsooth, he were failing the gods in the service he owed them. Because of this he made heroic efforts to arise and at last he stood on his four legs, tottering and swaying back and forth.

"The Blessed Wolf!" chorused the women.

Judge Scott surveyed them triumphantly.

"Out of your own mouths be it," he said. "Just as I contended right along. No mere dog could have done what he did. He's a wolf."

"A Blessed Wolf," amended the Judge's wife.

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Part V– Chapter 5: The Sleeping Wolf

Text of Book

Part V– Chapter 5: The Sleeping Wolf, page 1

Part V– Chapter 5: The Sleeping Wolf, page 2

Part V– Chapter 5: The Sleeping Wolf, page 3

Part V– Chapter 5: The Sleeping Wolf, page 4

Part V– Chapter 5: The Sleeping Wolf, page 5

Part V– Chapter 5: The Sleeping Wolf, page 6

Part V– Chapter 5: The Sleeping Wolf, page 7

Part V– Chapter 5: The Sleeping Wolf, page 8

Part V– Chapter 5: The Sleeping Wolf, page 9

Part V– Chapter 5: The Sleeping Wolf, page 10

Part V– Chapter 5: The Sleeping Wolf, page 11

Questions

1) What does the author imply is similar about White Fang and Jim Hall, the criminal?

2) Jim Hall was considered "incorrigible" in prison.

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

3) What causes Jim Hall to break into the Scott's home?

4) Who secretly lets White Fang sleep in the house every night?

5) What happens when White Fang fights with Jim Hall?

6) What is most ironic about White Fang's encounter with Jim Hall?

7) How does the judge feel about White Fang after the attack?

8) Which sentence best explains the extent of White Fang's injuries?

9) White Fang clings to life with a "tenacity" that the doctor could not have predicted.

What does the word "tenacity" mean in this chapter?

10) White Fang earns a new name in this chapter.

What is it?

11) What is the main point of the author ending the story with White Fang fathering puppies with Collie?

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

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Part V– Chapter 5: The Sleeping Wolf, page 9

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"Yes, Blessed Wolf," agreed the Judge. "And henceforth that shall be my name for him."

"He'll have to learn to walk again," said the surgeon; "so he might as well start in right now. It won't hurt him. Take him outside."

And outside he went, like a king, with all Sierra Vista about him and tending on him. He was very weak, and when he reached the lawn he lay down and rested for a while.

Then the procession started on, little spurts of strength coming into White Fang's muscles as he used them and the blood began to surge through them. The stables were reached, and there in the doorway, lay Collie, a half–dozen pudgy puppies playing about her in the sun.

White Fang looked on with a wondering eye. Collie snarled warningly at him, and he was careful to keep his distance. The master with his toe helped one sprawling puppy toward him. He bristled suspiciously, but the master warned him that all was well. Collie, clasped in the arms of one of the women, watched him jealously and with a snarl warned him that all was not well.

The puppy sprawled in front of him. He cocked his ears and watched it curiously. Then their noses touched, and he felt the warm little tongue of the puppy on his jowl. White Fang's tongue went out, he knew not why, and he licked the puppy's face.