Unit 2 Week 3 Wolf Island Quiz

1. What is the meaning of the word DEPENDED as it is used in paragraph 2?

• counted or relied on
• health or comfort
• ate the food
• sat patiently

2. The author wrote this selection most likely to-

• persuade the reader to visit an island full of wolves.
• describe what the reader needs to take care of a family of wolves.
• explain how a food chain is impacted when a family of wolves is missing
• provide information about why wolves like to travel in rafts.

3. Cause - The deer were eating more grass, grass seeds, and leaves. What is the effect?

• The owls had more to eat.

• The rabbits and mice had less to eat.

• Snow began to fall.
• The wolves returned to the island.

4. Which sentence from the story best explains why the family of wolves left the island?

• The pups found a strange object at the edge of the water.
• Finally, it came to rest on the shore, and the wolf family scrambled onto dry land.
• Spring grew into summer on the island, and summer into fall.
• The pups couldn't turn the raft back, and the pups were too scared to swim, so the adult wolves swam out to the raft and climbed abord.

5. Which word(s) is a synonym of AVALIABLE in paragraph 15?

• limited resources
• ready to use
• blocked
• awkward

6. After reading paragraphs 29 to 31, the reader can conclude that-

• wolves can walk on ice.
• wolves cannot walk on ice.
• the wolves did not want to return to the island.
• snow melts rapidly.

7. The illustration on page 321 supports the idea that-

• the deer like to play in the snow
• the wolves were getting hungry.
• the animals had plenty of food.
• the animals were running out of food.

8. What is the meaning of the word POPULATION in paragraph 14?

• the number of animals living in a place
• health and comfort
• the habitat where an animal lives
• animals that keep the habitat healthy

9. Because the squirrels had collected a store of nuts for the winter, -

• they had to find food in the snow.
• the deer tackled them and took their nuts.
• they curled up and went to sleep.
• they stayed awake to make sure that the other animals wouldn't eat their food.

10. Details in the selection support the idea that -

• there would be more rabbits in the island if the wolves hadn't returned.
• the wolves played a big role in the food chain on the island
• the wolves preferred living on the mainland.
• the wolves' population would have grown if they had stayed on the mainland.