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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time of day does Tiny return from the hospital to the facility?

2. In what way does J.P.'s violent streak first show up?

3. What is the result of J.P.'s arrest?

4. What does the narrator do for a living?

5. What is one thing J.P. worries about when he is in the well?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the narrator's two trips to the treatment facility differ?

2. In the section about the landlord, what does the narrator's nakedness represent?

3. How is the image of cold weather used in the story?

4. Why does the proprietor recommend "The Call of the Wild" to J.P. and the narrator?

5. Why does Roxy say yes to a date with J.P.?

6. Why don't we learn what the narrator does for a living?

7. Is the narrator's girlfriend also an alcoholic?

8. How does J.P. treat his wife?

9. Give of an example of how the narrator practices avoidance.

10. What is the significance of the call the narrator intends to make to his wife at the end of the story?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is the character Frank Martin included in the story? Could the story have been told without him, or is he central to the themes?

Essay Topic 2

Nature imagery is prevalent in "Where I'm Calling From," as seen in frequent physical descriptions of place and climate and in the recurring theme of Jack London and his writing. Why did the author choose to emphasize nature? Could the story have been set in a city and pursued the same themes?

Essay Topic 3

Many details in the story are vague, while others are very precise. For example, J.P. is "eighteen or nineteen" when he meets his wife, but he remembers exactly what she is wearing. Explore how the author alternately uses vague and precise details and why.

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