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Characters
Setting
Plot
Questions About the Wolves
Questions about Miyax
100
What does Julie name the head wolf?
Amaroq
100
Where is Julie in the beginning of the story?
Alaska
100
What kills the head wolf?
A hunting plane
100

This is where the wolves live.

What is the Arctic in a den.

100

What is what happened to Miyax's father?

He went in his kayak to go seal hunting, but never returned.

200
What is Julie's father's name?
Kapugen
200
Where does Julie run away to?
San Fransisco
200
Why does Julie get her American name?
To attend school and "fit in"
200

Who is the leader of the wolf pack?

Amoraq

200

What is Julie's relationship with Daniel?

They are married.

300
What is Julie's real name?
Miyax
300

What country is Julie in?

United States

300

Why did the hunters return the bladders to the seals during the Bladder Feast?

So spirits could enter the bodies of young seals?

300

How wolves communicate to each other. Give an example.

They communicate with actions using their bodies. For example, when the wolves nudge under the wolf leader's chin to show leadership to him.

300

Why Miyax is in the Arctic?

She ran away from her husband and became lost in the Arctic.

400
Who's son is Daniel?
Naka's, a business partner of Julie's father
400
Where does Julie's pen pal live?
San Fransisco
400
Why is Julie shocked at her father when he returns from war?
He remarried to a white woman and to have forsaken the ways of the Eskimos, including owning a plane for hunting.
400

What is the pecking order of the wolves. 

Amaroq, Nails, Silver and then Jello.

400

How does Miyax learn to communicate with the wolves.

She observes the wolves and learns the actions they do for different things. She copies what they wolves are doing in hopes of communicating with them.

500
Who does Julie stay with after she and her dad get separated?
Aunt Martha's
500
Where is Martha's home?
Mekoryuk
500
Why is Julie scared when winter comes in the tundra?
The wolves will leave to roam around looking for food. This scares her because she has come to depend on the wolves.
500
When was this book published?
1972
500

Who does who Miyax compare Amaroq to and what is the name she gives him?

Her father Kapugen and she calls him her wolf father.