4! 1)all the stiffness and gloss had gone out of his beautiful furry coat. the hair hung down, limp and his muscles had wasted away to knotty strings, and the flesh pads had disappeared, so that each rib and every bone in his frame were outlined cleanly through the loose hide. . the descriptive language in this scene best shows readers that buck is a)angry and resentful. b)nervous and tired. c)weak and gaunt. d) gloomy and hopeless. 2)from every hill slope came the trickle of running water, the music of unseen fountains. all things were thawing, bending, snapping. the yukon was straining to break loose the ice that bound it air-holes formed, fissures sprang and spread and amid all this bursting, rending, throbbing of awakening life, under the blazing sun and through the soft-sighing breezes, like wayfarers to death, staggered the two men, the woman, and the huskies. the imagery in this excerpt mostly appeals to the reader’s sense of a)hearing. b)smell. c)touch. d)taste. 3)which excerpt from the call of the wild best readers to visualize how thin buck has become? a)and through it all buck staggered along at the head of the team as in a nightmare. he pulled when he could; when he could no longer pull, he fell down. b)his muscles had wasted away to knotty strings, and the flesh pads had disappeared, so that each rib and every bone in his frame were outlined cleanly through the loose hide. . c)buck refused to move under the rain of heavier blows which now fell upon him. like his mates, he was barely able to get up. . d)thornton knelt beside him and with rough, kindly hands searched for broken bones. by the time his search had disclosed nothing more than many bruises and a state of terrible starvation, the sled was a quarter of a mile away. 4) and then, suddenly, without warning, uttering a cry that was inarticulate and more like the cry of an animal, john thornton sprang upon the man who wielded the club. “if you strike that dog again, i’ll kill you,” he at last managed to say in a choking voice. the sensory details in this scene the reader understand a)how furious and upset thornton is. b)how swift and sly thornton is. c)how sick and injured thornton is. d)how aggressive and harsh thornton is.