Here are the answers to the statements based on the content:
True 1. In less than five months the dogs had traveled twenty-five hundred miles with only five days’ rest during the last eighteen hundred miles, and they had no strength left when they reached the end of their journey.
False 2. By the time Buck led his team into Skaguay, the number of men rushing into the Klondyke and the volume of mail the dogs were expected to deliver had dwindled considerably.
True 3. Even in their worn-out condition, Buck and his mates brought a high price when they were sold to Hal and Charles four days after they came to Skaguay.
False 4. Hal and Charles were very much like Perrault, François, and the hundreds of other men who had come to the Klondyke.
True 5. The woman Mercedes was Charles’s wife and Hal’s sister.
True 6. Mercedes was timid and quiet, taking no part in the breaking of camp and the packing of the sled.
True 7. Men from a neighboring camp attempted to advise Hal and Charles as to the proper packing of their sled and the poor condition of their team, but with no success.
True 8. Hal believed that the team’s failure to pull his sled was laziness that needed to be whipped out of them.
True 9. On a steep slope on the path into main street, the sled turned over, and Buck and the team in a rage broke into a run dragging the sled behind them.
False 10. Mercedes was finally able to cut the sled’s load in half, and Charles and Hal added six dogs to the team for a total of fourteen.
False 11. The new dogs were experienced and co-operative teammates that Buck was able to teach quickly.
True 12. The two men and the woman did not learn as they traveled, and they hastened the shortage of dog food by over-feeding the team.
False 13. When the under-feeding came, Hal tried to compensate by decreasing the number of miles and hours he expected from the dogs each day.
True 14. Mercedes’s persistence in riding on the sled was a last straw to the load being pulled by the weak and starving dogs.
True 15. Though Buck and his six remaining teammates were no more than skeletons, the men continued to use the whip and club on them until the pain of the beatings was dull and distant.
True 16. At his camp at the mouth of the White River, John Thornton warned Charles and Hal that the bottom was likely to drop out of the ice.
True 17. When Buck refused to get up, Hal mercilessly beat the dog with his whip and club until the animal no longer felt the pain.
True 18. John Thornton saved Buck by threatening to kill Hal if he struck the dog again.
True 19. Thornton found that Buck was bruised and in a state of terrible starvation, but he had no broken bones.
False 20. With the remaining four dogs limping and staggering to pull the sled, Thornton and Buck watched as Hal and the others safely disappeared beyond the horizon.
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