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Maroo ch. 1-8 quiz

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Otak believed certain activities were men's jobs and others were for women.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Irimgadu was Sovi's wife.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

The people used deer antlers for digging in the ground.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Maroo gathered shells to use for jewelry and decorating her clothes.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Areg died when a bear mauled him on the plateau.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

What was collected in a deer's skill and passed around to the hunters?

a)

herbal tea

b)

fish bones

c)

blood

d)

arrow heads

7.

Where didi they find Rivo?

a)

floating down the river

b)

caught in a net

c)

by his dead mother

d)

running with the ibex

8.

When they heard rock spirits singing and clapping, what were they were actually hearing?

a)

Sovi's group

b)

echoes

c)

thunder

d)

owls

9.

Which of these did the Seal People never do?

a)

swim

b)

come close enough to touch

c)

watch Maroo's family

d)

dive under the water

10.

What were grubs (insect larvae) good for?

a)

bait

b)

medicine

c)

soap

d)

food

11.

What did Old Mother use old yellow bones for every morning?

a)

to eat her breakfast

b)

to dig for roots

c)

to count the days

d)

to pin up her hair

12.

At a feast, the entertainment might include Areg doing which of the following?

a)

Dancing around the fire

b)

playing his drum

c)

telling stories about spirits

d)

playing hide and seek with the children

13.

What was the red and black mixture of oil and search in the two horns used for?

a)

healing wounds

b)

bug repellant

c)

curing stomach ackes

d)

painting faces

14.

When they saw whips of smoke, what did they know was causing it?

a)

their enemy was coming closer

b)

a forest fire that had started on the plain

c)

amimals had stirred up old fires

d)

other groups that were camped not far off.

15.

How did they heat water?

a)

by holding a bowl toward the sun

b)

by mixing cold water with hot ashes

c)

by dropping hot stones into a bowl

d)

by putting it in a burning tree stump

16.

The people in the novel live very differently than we do. Discuss one aspect that you would find the hardest to deal with. Use specific examples from the story.

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