Julie of the Wolves

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SHORT ANSWER STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS - Julie of the Wolves

Part III - Reading Assignment 4

1. What did Miyax get from the pups' den?

2. Who took Miyax's food?

3. Why couldn't Miyax strike Jello when he surrendered?

4. What from her pack did Miyax most want to find?

5. How did Jello die?

6. What did Miyax use to make some equipment she needed?

7. What did Kapu bring Miyax?

8. What would guide Miyax to Point Hope?

9. What did the fact that she saw a skua tell Miyax?

10. What are bounties and what did they encourage?

11. What did the oil drum mark?

12. Identify Tornait.

13. Who was Amaroq training to be the new leader of the pack?

14. Why did Miyax hide in the oil drum?

15. What happened to Amaroq?

Vocabulary Julie of the Wolves Reading Assignment #4

Part I: Using Contextual Clues

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.

26. Holding him in abeyance with the antler, she glanced around the ruins of her home and took stock of

      the damage.

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27. She dug a niche in the side of a heave with her man's knife.

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28. The first bark was one of inquiry, a sort of "Where are you and what are you doing?"

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29. The next call, however, was disquieting. The wolf seemed to be saying there was danger in the air.

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30. She cut the drag in two pieces and pushing the poles under one piece, she erected a tent.

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31. She stepped forward on the vast stage at the top of the world and bowed to her immense audience.

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32. When it continued to zag she realized the pilot was following a meandering river where game

      wintered.

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Part II. Matching

___ 26. Abeyance                                A. a steep, shallow recess in a rock or hill

___ 27. Niche                                      B. troubling

___ 28. Inquiry                                     C. huge

___ 29. Disquieting                               D. the condition of being temporarily set aside

___ 30. Erected                                   E. following a winding course

___ 31. Immense                                  F. a question

___ 32. Meandering                             G. set up