Touching Spirit Bear QUIZ (CH 24-25 READING)

After completing his anger dance, Cole thinks about what he learned from it. What is one thing Cole now understands about anger?

• Cole actually feels the pain he has inflicted on others. He now understands how hurtful anger can be.

• Cole learns that it takes patience to find his own true feelings and to face his own faults, which is the key to overcoming anger.

  
  

• Cole feels at peace at the end of his anger dance and now knows that anger is the destroyer of peace.

• Cole knows that no one wants to be angry, but choosing to remain angry indicates a lack of control

  over oneself.

What does Cole tell Edwin he learned from the anger dance?

• Cole learned what it feels like to be at peace.

• Cole learned how hurtful anger can be.

• Cole learned to forgive.

• Cole learned the destructive power of anger.

Why isn’t Cole able to carve anything in the blank space on the totem?

• Cole needs to forgive his father and his grandfather for their acts of violence before he can heal and

  finish his totem.

• Cole knows that being sorry and forgiving aren’t enough to heal him; he must find a way to help Peter before he can complete the totem.

• Cole has to understand the meaning of the Spirit Bear before he can know what to carve in the blank

  space on the totem.

• Cole has to understand that the truth is about what we all have in common before he can complete

  his totem.

  
  

After doing a storm dance, what two things does Cole carve into his totem?

• Cole carves a lightning bolt and a raindrop.

• Cole carves a cloud and an umbrella.

• Cole carves a splintered tree and a sparrow.

• Cole carves a lightning bolt and a splintered tree.

What does Cole think is the reason the Spirit Bear has stopped appearing?

• Cole thinks the Spirit Bear knows that Cole has other lessons to learn at this time.

• Cole decides that the Spirit Bear has probably gone further south, back to it’s normal habitat.

• Cole suspects that hunters have killed the Spirit Bear.

• Cole believes that the Spirit Bear has found a cave in which to hibernate for the winter.

Although Cole keeps busy with chores and schoolwork, he still has a lot of time to think. What feeling

is overwhelming to him?

• anger

• loneliness

• sadness

• fear

What does Cole fear will happen when he returns to Minneapolis, where there is no soaking pond, ancestor

rock, or totem?

• Cole worries that his father will severely beat him.

• Cole worries that he will revert to violent behavior.

• Cole worries that he will not be able to find the Spirit Bear.

• Cole worries that he will have to face Peter.

How does Cole celebrate Christmas on the island?

• Cole goes looks at the starry sky and feels the real spirit of Christmas.

• Cole lights candles and carefully makes a celebratory dinner for himself.

• Cole hangs a sock by the fireplace and makes a pine wreath for his door.

• Cole finds a little pine tree and decorates it with aluminum foil ornaments.

How does Cole celebrate Christmas on the island?

• Cole goes looks at the starry sky and feels the real spirit of Christmas.

• Cole lights candles and carefully makes a celebratory dinner for himself.

• Cole hangs a sock by the fireplace and makes a pine wreath for his door.

• Cole finds a little pine tree and decorates it with aluminum foil ornaments.

When Edwin visits Cole at the end of March, what news does he bring Cole?

• The Circle members want Cole to return home.

• Peter tried to commit suicide.

• Garvey has been assigned to another case.

• Cole’s mother and father divorced.