Town
Families
The Club
Values
Motifs
100

This place "isn't close to anything. Even on a map the place looks unnatural."

Beartown

100
Name the members of the Andersson family

Peter, Kira, Maya and Leo

100

What is the name of the character who owns the supermarket? 

Tails

100

What does it mean when someone in Beartown says, "[They] have the bear in the them"?

They are tough and relentless - nothing will break them. 

100

What is the chant often repeated by the players and fans?

What is "We are the Bears of Beartown!" ?

200

This part of town is on the south side of town and is made up of "a small cluster of expensive houses with views across the lake. The people who live in them own supermarkets, run factories, or commute to better jobs in bigger towns."

The Heights

200

Which father made his son walk home from Hed to teach him a lesson?

Kevin's father 

200

Who does the president of the board apologize to?

Maya

200

Which characters are said to "have the bear in [them]"?

Kevin and the four-year old girl

200

What statement is repeated several times, but seems to be ironic in its implications about the importance of hockey?

 "It's only a game" ?

300

This part of town is on the north side of Beartown and consists of "nothing but blocks of rental apartments. It is lower than the rest of the town, where the ground slopes away toward an old gravel pit."

The Hollow

300

Which mother goes furthest in butting in to protect her child?

Convince me with a good argument and specific details from the text.

300

What is the name of the group of men who wear black, hang out at Ramona's bar and intimidate anyone perceived to be a problem for Beartown hockey?

the Pack

300

What value did Sune insist on gets repeatedly invoked: in the board's decision to fire him, the town's blind support of Kevin, and David's thoughts on firing Peter?

"club comes first"

300

What single word characterizes David's coaching of the junior team?

What is the word "Win" ?

400

Which families live in the center part of Beartown, which "consists of row houses and small homes in a gently declining scale of middleclassness." 

Peter, Kira, Maya, Leo and Benji

400
Provide the context for the following: "All your best qualities come from the fact that you've been raised in a house full of women."

Kevin's mom says this to Benji when she goes to see him after Amat tells everyone what he saw.

400

What task does the board charge the general manager with carrying out "for the good of the club"?

Firing Sune

400

What value seems to be reinforced by the following: "You're nothing in this world if you're alone" ?

The value of community

400

What is used to include and to exclude people in the story?

humor/jokes

500

This is the place where The Pack spends a good deal of their time.

The Bearskin

500

What and whom is the following quote about: "Because friendship is both complicated and not complicated at all" ? 

Filip's mom decision to stand with Maggie Lyt and let her son Filip play with the A-team in Hed

500

Why does the board's focus on winning create so much pressure on the players?

The fact that the town is relying on hockey to lift up the economy makes winning so important.

500

Who says, "People round here don't always know the difference between right and wrong. But we know the difference between good and evil" ?

Ramona

500

What does Sune equate "nurturing a really talented player on a really small hockey team to"? 

"seeing a cherry tree in bloom in a frozen garden"