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1 1. What is the setting of this chapter? 2. What were Bruce and the main character looking for at the beginning of this chapter? 3. Why did Bruce have an easy time climbing the cottonwood poplar to get the crows' eggs? 4. How did Bruce carry the crow's eggs out of the tree? 5. What kind of fruit did Bruce have in his lunch? 6. Why were the boys excited when they saw a bunch of crows around a bluff? 7. What is the biggest kind of owl there is? 8. What is an owl pellet? 9. What is the name of the teacher who the boys were going to get to help them with the nest? Chapter 2 1. What other animals did the boys already have? 2. Why could Dad not keep the car in the garage? 3. What was the name of the dog? 4. What is a "blind"? 5. Why did Mr. Miller tell the boys to make lots of noise when they left? 6. Why did Mr. Miller look so terrible when the boys returned to the bluff? 7. How many young owls did Mr. Miller see in the nest? Chapter 3 1. What was the storm called that ruined Mr. Miller's blind? . 2. Why did the boys think that the young owlet must have been the first one to hatch? 3. How did the boys get the owl to be friends with them? 4. Why could Mutt not see too well? 5. Why did Billy's father say, "Better count your gophers, Billy"? 6. Where did Billy get the name 'Wol' from? Chapter 4 1. Does it surprise you that Wol was scared of the gophers? Why or why not? 2. Why did the maid, Ophelia, leave the house and never come back? 3. How did Billy feel when he saw the kids dropping stones on the owl in the barrel? 4. What did Billy find "funny" about how Georgie Barnes treated the owl? 5. Why did Billy call the new owl "Weeps"? Chapter 5 1. Why does Billy say that the owls "were better bodyguards than tigers"? 2. How old were the owls when they reached full size? 3. Why did the owls not know how to fly? 4. Why did Wol stomp furiously into his cage after his first flying experience? 5. Why were the neighborhood dogs scared of Wol? Chapter 6 1. What were some of the ideas that the boys had to make their parade float original? 2. Name 4 of the other animals in the parade. 3. What was Bruce's surprise pet? 4. What does Billy mean when he says that the skunk did "what skunks always do when they get scared"? 5. Have you ever had an experience with an animal getting scared? Describe the situation and how you and the animal reacted.

Chapter 7 1. Why was Mutt jealous of the owls? 2. Why do you think Weeps was so fond of Mutt? 3. Describe what Weeps does when he sees Mutt. 4. What does it mean when the author says, "Mutt's relations with Wol were another story" on page 65. 5. Wol played a few tricks on poor Mutt! Describe in detail two of Wol's tricks and how Mutt reacted. 6. Do you feel sorry for Mutt? Why or Why not? 7. What is the one kind of animal that only a horned owl will eat? 8. Why did Wol bring a second skunk into the house? 9. How did Billy's Dad finally get rid of the skunk smell on Wol? 10. How did Wol look? Chapter 8 1. Have you ever had a fort similar to the cave that the boys call their summer headquarters? Describe it. 2. Why would wol sometimes come zooming back to the cave and bang on the door with his beak? 3. Why did the little prairie chicken babies follow Wol? 4. Why did the boys like the sound of the coyotes howling in the distance? 5. Why did the tough kids get scared and run away? Chapter 9 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Why did Billy's family finally have to allow Wol to be a house-owl? Why did Billy's father's friend wear a hat with earflaps when he visited Billy's house? Why did Wol get mad at the postman? What did bad suggest that Billy do with the owls while he was at school? Did it work? What did the family finally end up doing with the owls when Billy went to school?

Chapter 10 1. For a couple of weeks every summer Billy and his family would camp at a lake near a small village called Dundurn, about 30 miles south of Saskatoon. Describe in your own words (don't copy straight from the book) what their 'trailer' looked like. 2. Why would people in other cars stare at Billy and his family as they drove by? 3. When Billy, his dad, and the two owls were canoeing on the lake they were spotted by a crow. Explain what happen next and how Wol and Weeps reacted. 4. How did Billy's dad and Wol handle the crows after that incident? Chapter 11 1. Why was the spring when Weeps and Wol turned 3 years old so sad for Billy? 2. Do you think Wol and Weeps suspected that Billy was leaving them at Bruce's house? Give reasons for your answer. 3. How do you feel about the ending of the book? Do you think it should have ended differently? Why or why not? 4. Do you think Billy should visit the Owls later on? Why or why not? 5. Complete the Venn Diagram with your notes on Wol and Weeps (yellow sheet) 6. Complete the Biography Graphic Organizer on Farley Mowat. You will need to use the Internet at home. Include 3-4 facts in each area.