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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Farley Mowat doing when he sees the wolves in this chapter?
(a) Sleeping
(b) Eating
(c) Swimming
(d) Shaving
2. What sound does Angeline make when she recognizes the visiting wolves?
(a) A howl
(b) A bark
(c) A growl
(d) A whine
3. How does George play a joke on Albert?
(a) He pretends to catch a mouse
(b) He sneaks up and pounces on him
(c) He hides Albert's piece of meat
(d) He howls right in Albert's ear
4. What emotion does Mowat feel after he leaves the den?
(a) Happiness
(b) Sorrow
(c) Wonder
(d) Rage
5. Where does Farley Mowat go to observe the pups?
(a) To the shore of the river
(b) A grove of pine trees
(c) A hill above the den
(d) An outcropping of rocks
6. According to Ootek, one wolf patriarch lived to be at least how old?
(a) Twenty years
(b) Thirty years
(c) Twenty-five years
(d) Forty years
7. How did Mowat react when Ootek lost the Raunkaier's Circle?
(a) He fainted dead away
(b) He danced a jig
(c) He scolded Ootek
(d) He started crying
8. What does Mike do when Ootek tells him about the wolves' message?
(a) He packs up for a hunting trip
(b) He sets out traps for the wolves
(c) He ties the dogs close to the cabin
(d) He closes the cabin door for the night
9. What does Angeline do when she returns to the pups?
(a) She sits down and howls
(b) She cleans them
(c) She plays tag with them
(d) She regurgitates meat
10. What time do the wolves appear with the herd?
(a) Just before sunset
(b) A little after dawn
(c) Shortly before noon
(d) Mid-afternoon
11. How long do Albert and the Husky stay together?
(a) Over a month
(b) Only two days
(c) A few hours
(d) About a week
12. Mowat confesses that he didn't believe Ootek's story until what happens?
(a) Mowat sees the wolves he's observing do the same thing
(b) He hears a similar story from a white naturalist
(c) Mike insists that the story was true and he was there
(d) Ootek takes him on a trip to visit the site of the event
13. What did Ootek later tell him they were doing?
(a) Trying to hunt caribou
(b) Trying to save him
(c) Trying to scare him
(d) Trying to clothe him
14. According to Ootek, wolf cubs have even been adopted by:
(a) Caribou herds
(b) Arctic foxes
(c) Grizzly bears
(d) Human mothers
15. How many strange wolves arrive at the den while George and Albert are hunting?
(a) Five
(b) Four
(c) Three
(d) Two
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the estimate of wolf population in the Keewatin territory prior to Farley Mowat's study?
2. Which piece of equipment did Mowat find surprisingly useful in his study?
3. What event finally convinces Mowat that Ootek can understand wolf language?
4. How many wolf-killed caribou did Farley Mowat examine?
5. Why does Mowat go into the wolves' den?
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