Directions: Answer each question completely. You Must restate the question in each answer. Provide supporting details (textual evidence) where indicated.

 1. Why is Koskoosh surprised that his son comes back to talk to him?  2. What is the task of every living thing in Nature?  3. The author’s perspective is reflected in Koskoosh’s memories of the famine because  the author wants the reader to…. (finish this statement)  4. Why does Koskoosh extinguish the burning stick in the snow?  5. What is the first clue to where the story takes place? Provide textual evidence

 6. Describe the burial practices of the people. Provide textual evidence  7. Provide one example of an internal conflict in the story. Provide textual evidence  8. Provide one example of an external conflict in the story. Provide textual evidence  9. What does Koskoosh think his son may yet do? Do you believe that Koshoosh actually believes that this is a likely possibility?  10. What causes Koskoosh to think of the moose again?  11. What does Koskoosh have that is like the moose’s antlers? How is Koskoosh unlike the moose? How might you argue that the author intends this comparison?