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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Mowat react when Ootek lost the Raunkaier's Circle?
(a) He fainted dead away
(b) He started crying
(c) He scolded Ootek
(d) He danced a jig

2. Mowat goes to view an alleged slaughter of deer by wolves in what location?
(a) Churchill Downs
(b) Fishduck Lake
(c) Manitoba Springs
(d) Mt. McKinley

3. According to Ootek, wolf cubs have even been adopted by:
(a) Grizzly bears
(b) Human mothers
(c) Arctic foxes
(d) Caribou herds

4. What alerts Angeline to Mowat's presence?
(a) He trips on a branch
(b) His stomach growls
(c) She sees his shadow
(d) She smells him

5. What emotion does Mowat feel after he leaves the den?
(a) Sorrow
(b) Happiness
(c) Wonder
(d) Rage

6. According to Ootek, one wolf patriarch lived to be at least how old?
(a) Thirty years
(b) Forty years
(c) Twenty years
(d) Twenty-five years

7. Mowat describes the puppies as being roughly the same size and shape as what?
(a) Marmosets
(b) Foxes
(c) Groundhogs
(d) Otters

8. What noise frightens Farley Mowat as he makes his last visit to the wolves' den?
(a) Mike's dogs chasing a rabbit
(b) Ice cracking in the river
(c) An airplane flying overhead
(d) A wolf howling very close by

9. What does Albert try hunting while Mowat watches?
(a) Mice
(b) Sculpin
(c) Squirrels
(d) Ducks

10. How much is the bounty offered for dead wolves, according to Mowat?
(a) From $5 to $10
(b) From $2 to $5
(c) From $10 to $30
(d) From $15 to $25

11. Farley Mowat watches the caribou from what vantage point?
(a) A spot just above the den
(b) The roof of Mike's cabin
(c) A crest overlooking a valley
(d) From inside his tent

12. What was the estimate that Mowat finally came to regarding the wolf population?
(a) 3,000
(b) 300
(c) 30,000
(d) 300,000

13. How does Albert first react to the female Husky?
(a) He runs in the other direction
(b) He turns into a buffoon
(c) He pretends to ignore her
(d) He tries to bite her

14. What, according to Ootek, are the wolves howling about?
(a) Hunters
(b) A storm
(c) Other wolves
(d) Caribou

15. What did Ootek later tell him they were doing?
(a) Trying to save him
(b) Trying to scare him
(c) Trying to hunt caribou
(d) Trying to clothe him

Short Answer Questions

1. What time did Ootek say George and Albert would return to the den?

2. What can happen if you ingest nematode worms?

3. How was the wolf finally killed?

4. What keeps George from reaching the female Husky?

5. Which governmental agency was asked to search for Farley Mowat?

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