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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. Where is the plane Miyax sees heading?

2. In what direction did the berry bushes point in Julie's village?

3. What does Miyax plan to do with meat to make it lighter to carry?

4. What does Miyax use to mark her way back home when she goes hunting?

5. In what season do wolves live nomadic lives?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Miyax intend to do when she gets to the ocean?

2. Why is Miyax in the middle of the tundra at the beginning of the book?

3. What happens when Amaroq rips up Miyax's leather mitten?

4. Who are the other adult wolves in the pack, and how does Miyax describe them?

5. What does Miyax do to try and discover the language of the wolves?

6. What kind of signs in nature did Miyax use in her home village?

7. What did Miyax pack when she ran away?

8. What does Miyax hear one night after the first signs of winter appears, and what causes these sounds?

9. What did Kapugen tell Miyax about fear?

10. What is Miyax shocked to find with her caribou meat one day?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Much of this plot follows the relationship between Miyax and Amaroq. How does this relationship change over the course of the plot, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 2

Ellen was a minor character in this book who made a huge impact on the plot. How did she accomplish this, and how would the plot have been altered had she not been included in the story line?

Essay Topic 3

Betrayal is an important theme in this book. Where does this theme appear, and how does it affect the characters involved in those scenes?

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