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Part II– Chapter 3: The Grey Cub

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Questions

1) What is the main idea of this chapter?

2) What is different about the little grey cub other than his color?

3) Why does the author compare the wolf cubs to plants?

4) The grey cub is "perpetually" moving toward the cave's entrance and "perpetually" pulled back by his mother.

What does the word "perpetually" mean in this chapter?

5) What happens to most of the she–wolf's litter?

6) Given what the reader knows about One Eye, what does incident with the lynx at the end of the chapter tell us?

7) The author ends the chapter with, "and the time was to come when the she–wolf, for her grey cub's sake, would venture the left fork, and the lair in the rocks, and the lynx's wrath."

What is the author's most likely purpose in providing this information?

8) Were there any words that weren't clear to you?