Call of the Klondike

Question 1

what is the setting in the beginning of the story

Answer 1

a dock in Seattle, Washington

Question 2

what can can you infer from this:
In Seattle, Washington when it happened. On July 17 1897, rugged miners stepped off the S.S. Portland steamship and made their way through the excited crowd. They were carrying large sacks filled with the most precious metal in the world–gold.

Answer 2

Portland has a lot of gold and people are coming from there to have gold in Seattle

Question 3

what does this paragraph state:
“ ‘Thousands of people in the public square watched the weather-beaten and hardy adventurers stagger into the express office with sacks of gold, gold in blankets, in oil cans, and even moccasins.’ “

Answer 3

Many people had gotten too much gold

Question 4

What can you infer:
Firemen, doctors, lawyers, ministers-and even the mayor Seattle-quit their jobs and joined the rush

Answer 4

They were good jobs and finding gold they thought was a better money making way then doing their jobs

Question 5

what did people think when they got on the boat to find gold

Answer 5

they thought it was the promised land and that it would solve all there problems

Question 6

Back then, what was important to them?

Answer 6

money

Question 7

how do you stake a claim

Answer 7

you put a post in each corner, one with your name and the date on it. Then, a prospector delivers it and files it as a legal claim in three days.

Question 8

what can you infer:
Because the claims were usually measured by crude means, disagreements over exact boundaries were common

Answer 8

Measurement were not exact, it led to a disagreement on properties

Question 9

What rumor do people believe it’s true

Answer 9

the expected rush here in the spring and they all wonder whether there will be such an enormous crowd as reported

Question 10

how are they trying to trick the new comers

Answer 10

by fleecing unsuspecting schemes to get their tenderfoot money

Question 11

what are cheecakos

Answer 11

a name for new people/minors

Question 12

what are sour doughs

Answer 12

“old timers” or old people

Question 13

How do we know that other people heard the rumors as well from the text

Answer 13

we reached tammany dance hall, where there was an unusual bustle and excitement.

Question 14

during the stampede to sweed creek, what were the conditions like. cite evidence

Answer 14

very cold, “men and women were off the trail and up to their necks in snow”

Question 15

What can you infer:
i got claim number 20, they have staked as high a no. 750

Answer 15

there was a lot of people there

Question 16

what can we infer:
haven’t yet found out why we went or what caused that stampede

Answer 16

they still haven’t found out what caused all of this.

Question 17

how do we know it was dangerous

Answer 17

at least six men had their feet frozen, and two men died in the hospital from pneumonia. paragraph 12

Question 18

who tells us about this all

Answer 18

Stanley H. Pearce, says at the end of the page 27

Question 19

what was stanley’s job

Answer 19

to lead a stampede 6 miled up the yukon

Question 20

what was special about this job

Answer 20

it was the only midnight stampede on record.

Question 21

what did stanley and marshal witness in seattle

Answer 21

massive amounts of gold being carried by people

Question 22

crude

Answer 22

adjective, simplistic or undeveloped

Question 23

grub stake

Answer 23

noun, supplies or funds that are given to a mining prospector on the promise of a share in his discoveries

Question 24

novel

Answer 24

adjective, new or different

Question 25

prospector

Answer 25

noun, a person who searches an area of deposits of gold or other valuable minerals

Question 26

subsequent

Answer 26

adjective, happening after something else;following in time or order

Question 27

tenderfoot

Answer 27

noun, a newcomer to a frontier region