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English, 27.08.2019 04:00, FombafTejanjr7503

9.) which sentence from the passage best defines the main conflict?
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the call of the wild
by jack london
buck staggered over against the sled, exhausted, sobbing for breath, . this was spitz's opportunity. he sprang upon buck, and twice his teeth sank into his unresisting foe and ripped and tore the flesh to the bone. then francois's lash descended, and buck had the satisfaction of watching spitz receive the worst whipping asyet administered to any of the teams.
"one devil, dat spitz," remarked perrault. "some . . day heem keel dat buck." "dat buck two devils," was francois's rejoinder. "all de tam i watch dat buck i know for sure. lissen: some . . fine day heem get mad . . an' den heem chew dat spitz all up an' spit heem out on de snow. sure. i know."
from then on it was war between them. spitz, as lead-dog and acknowledged master of the team, felt his supremacy threatened by this strange southland dog. and strange buck was to him, for of the many southland dogs he had known, not one had shown up worthily in camp and on trail. they were all too soft, dying under the toil, the frost, and starvation. buck was the exception. he alone endured and prospered, matching the husky in strength, savagery, and cunning. then he was a masterful dog, and what made him dangerous was the fact that the club of the man in the red sweater had knocked all blind pluck and rashness out of his desire for mastery. he was preeminently¹ cunning, and could bide his time with a patience that was nothing less than primitive.
it was inevitable that the clash for leadership should come. buck wanted it. he wanted it because it was his nature, because he had been gripped tight by that nameless, incomprehensible pride of the trail and trace—that pride which holds dogs in the toil to the last gasp, which lures them to die joyfully in the harness, and breaks their hearts if they are cut out of the harness. this was the pride of dave as wheel-dog, of sol-leks as he pulled with all his strength; the pride that laid hold of them at break of camp, transforming them from sour and sullen brutes into straining, eager, ambitious creatures; the pride that spurred them on all day and dropped them at pitch of camp at night, letting them fall back into gloomy unrest and uncontent. this was the pride that bore up spitz and made him thrash the sled-dogs who blundered and shirked in the traces or hid away at harness-up time in the morning. likewise it was this pride that made him fear buck as a possible lead-dog. and this was buck's pride, too.
he openly threatened the other's leadership. he came between him and the shirks he should have punished. and he did it deliberately. one night there was a heavy snowfall, and in the morning pike, the malingerer,² did not appear. he was securely hidden in his nest under a foot of snow. francois called him and sought him in vain. spitz was wild with wrath. he raged through the camp, smelling and digging in every likely place, snarling so frightfully that pike heard and shivered in his hiding-place.
preeminently means in a manner that is superior to or better than most at a particular task or skill.
a malingerer is a person who pretends to be sick, typically to avoid having to work.
9.) which sentence from the passage best defines the main conflict?
read the passage and answer questions 9 and 10.
question 9 options:
a. this was the pride that bore up spitz and made him thrash the sled-dogs who blundered and shirked in the traces or hid away at harness-up time in the morning.
b. spitz, as lead-dog and acknowledged master of the team, felt his supremacy threatened by this strange southland dog.
c. this was the pride that bore up spitz and made him thrash the sled-dogs who blundered and shirked in the traces or hid away at harness-up time in the morning.
d. he sprang upon buck, and twice his teeth sank into his unresisting foe and ripped and tore the flesh to the bone.

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