Julie of the Wolves

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SHORT ANSWER STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS - Julie of the Wolves

Part I - Reading Assignment 1

1. Why was Miyax afraid?

2. What did Miyax want to tell the wolf?

3. What happened to Miyax's father?

4. What did Miyax hope to share with the wolves?

5. Why did Miyax choose the black wolf to help her?

6. How did the author describe Miyax?

7. Why did Miyax speak half in English and half Eskimo when she said, "Amaroq, Daya, wolf, my

    friend"?

8. How long will it be before the sun sets?

9. Why did Miyax not take a compass?

10. Why do creatures of the Arctic tend toward compactness?

11. To where did Miyax intend to walk?

12. What did Miyax want to do at Point Hope?

13. What is the wolf signal for "lie down'?

14. What did Amaroq do when Miyax laid down?

15. What was the negative effect of the hour of the lemmings' being over?

16. Why didn't the abundance of the caribou help Miyax?

17. What do gussaks say about wolves?

18. What did Miyax call the mother wolf? Why didn't she call her Martha?

19. What did Miyax name the grey wolf?

20. Why did Miyax name the last wolf Jello?

21. What was Eskimo wealth?

22. How did full grown wolves express their love for their leader?

23. How did wolf puppies express their love for their leader?

24. What did Miyax call the brave black puppy?

25. Why did Eskimos place their clothes in bladder bags at night?

26. Why did Amaroq tolerate Miyax?

27. When Miyax saw herself in the water, what did she look like?

28. What was keeping the wolf pups fat and healthy?

29. Why was Jello excited by Miyax's humble voice?

30. What kind of partners are Miyax and Kapu?

31. What did Miyax use instead of wood to make a fire?

VOCABULARY - Julie of the Wolves

Part I: Using Prior Knowledge

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean on the lines provided.

1. Her hands trembled and her heartbeat quickened for she was frightened...because of her desperate

    predicament.

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2. She had been watching the wolves for two days, trying to discern which of their sounds and movements

    expressed goodwill and friendship.

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3. She lay on the lichen-speckled frost heave in the midst of the bleak tundra.

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4. Not a tree grew anywhere to break the monotony of the gold-green plain...

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5. Each brick had been cut with her ulo, the half-moon shaped woman's knife, so versatile it can trim a

    baby's hair, slice a tough bear, or chip an iceberg.

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6. Amaroq's tail flashed high as her mouthing charged him with vitality.

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7. Intimidated, Jello pulled his ears together and back. He drew himself down until he looked smaller than

    ever.

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8. Silver came up the long slope, gave the grunt whine that summoned the pups, and Kapu ran to meet

    her.

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9. When she had retrieved every morsel she gently closed her lips on the bridge of his nose.

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10. "More lichens grow on one side of the frost heaves than on the other." She pondered this...

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Part II. Matching

___ 1. Predicament                              A. vigor, energy

___ 2. Discern                                     B. small piece or bite of food

___ 3. Tundra                                      C. considered carefully

___ 4. Monotony                                 D. called together

___ 5. Versatile                                    E. troublesome situation

___ 6. Vitality                                      F. having many uses

___ 7. Intimidated                                G. to perceive something obscure or concealed

___ 8. Summoned                                H. wearisome; sameness

___ 9. Morsel                                      I. discouraged and inhibited by or as if by threats

___ 10. Pondered                                J. treeless area between ice cap and tree line in arctic regions