Grey Owl

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Answer keys LEVEL 3
PENGUIN READERS
Teacher Support Programme
Book key
1 a beaver b Owls c traps d tribe
23 Open answers
4 Possible answer: He wanted to save Canadian forests.
He wanted people to cut down fewer trees and kill
fewer animals.
5 a ii b ii c ii d i e iii
6 a Open answers
b Possible answer: They thought that Native
Americans were savages. But Grey Owl was
intelligent and spoke well about his country.
7 Open answers
8 a 7 b 3 c 7 d 3 e 3 f 7 g 7 h 3
910 Open answers
11 a He taught Archie about the natural world and
helped him find a job.
b They became friends and taught Archie Indian
ways.
c They taught Archie to hunt, trap, and fish, and to
understand Indian ideas about life and nature.
d He married her, and she taught him her language
and her peoples ways.
e He gave Archie the name Little Owl.
f She was Archies daughter.
1214 Open answers
15 a 7 b 3 c 3 d 3 e 3 f 7 g 3 h 7
i 3 j 7 k 3
1618 Open answers
19 a Anahareo grew up in the city and she could read.
b She was reading when Archie first saw her.
c Archie loved Anahareo, and she stayed with Archie
in a cabin in the woods.
d Archie told Anahareo most of his secrets.
e Anahareo did not enjoy trapping with Grey Owl.
f Archies letter to his mother was published in a
magazine.
g Country Life thought that Archie was Native
American.
h Archie saved two beavers after he found their
mother dead.
i The government built a cabin for Grey Owl in
the Prince Albert National Park.
j Beavers eat wood. They use their tails to swim,
to stand, and to send messages.
20 a Open answers
b Native Americans ate their meat and used their
fur for clothes.
The first Europeans in Canada sold their fur for
fur coats.
Grey Owl thought they were beautiful. He wanted
to save them.
The Canadian government in the 1930s also
wanted to protect them.
21 Open answers
22 a Men of the Last Frontier
b Go into the woods, take off their hats and shoes
and give thanks.
c The Tree
d She didnt like Archies new life, and found him
difficult.
e From Angele.
f His mother, Kittie.
2331 Open answers
Discussion activities key
12 Open answers
3 a Grey Owl loved the forests in Canada.
b True
c Every year, more trees were cut down in the forest.
d True
e Grey Owl had a big secret.
413 Open answers
Activity worksheets key
1 a T
b NT Many people thought war was coming soon.
c NT They thought white men were better.
d T He thought he was in India.
e T
f NT Grey Owls ideas were new and important.
2 a home b April c Britain d parents
3 a business b wife c mother d father e aunts
f piano g friends h park i animals j school
k office l wood m Canada n woods
4 ac Open answers
5 a Because it was not what he wanted to do.
b To trap animals, to throw knives and to walk across
the deep snow.
c He was a guide. He took tourists to hunt and fish.
d He did small jobs around the hotel.
e The Ojibwa Indians.
f A small black notebook.
Grey Owl
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Answer keys LEVEL 3
PENGUIN READERS
Teacher Support Programme
6 a 3 b 2 c 1 d 1 e 3
7 a Yes b No c No d Yes e No
8 a 10 b 1 c 4 d 5 e 3 f 7 g 8 h 6
i 2 j 9
9 a 5 b 1 c 7 d 2 e 8 f 4 g 6 h 3
10 a NT She was an old school friend.
b T
c T
d NT She was excited at the idea of living in the
Canadian forests.
e NT Archie travelled to Canada first.
f NT She was angry when he told her about
Angele.
g T
11 a That it was more savage than the world of native
people.
b Because he blew up a beavers lodge.
c the Indians idea of life and nature; hunting,
trapping and fishing; the Ojibwa language: about
plants and trees and the ways of the animals; the
calls of the birds and animals
12 a She was an Iroquois Indian.
b Her friends called her Pony because she was strong
and fast, and she loved nature.
c He wrote many letters to her.
d He didnt tell her he was English; he told her about
his wives and children.
e She hated it and wanted him to stop.
f She refused to speak to audiences.
g He wanted to be alone.
13 a 6 b 7 c 4 d 1 e 5 f 3 g 2
14 a Because the book was about nature, not about men.
b She says he wanted people to notice him.
c Because she wanted Archie to stop trapping.
d Angele told them.
e The sister of an old school friend.
Progress test key
1 a theatre
b Canada
c savages
d India
e angry
f the King and Queen
2 a in Regina, Canada
b people who knew him before he was Grey Owl
c Archies aunts
d books about Indians
e It was boring.
f He went by ship.
3 a 7 b 3 c 7 d 7 e 3 f 7
4 a He shouted at people, he threw knives at trains, and
he destroyed part of an office.
b He was good at shooting, he could sit quietly for
hours and he could hide from enemy soldiers.
c in Bisco
d Marie and Archie
e stories and pictures
f two
5 a 5 b 3 c 2 d 1 e 6 f 4
6 a lake
b school
c cabin
d name
e blood
f beaver
g magazine
h bed
i park
7 a lodge
b two years
c natural world
d Pilgrims of the Wild
e young beavers
f Tales of an Empty Cabin
g road
8 a 6 b 1 c 5 d 3 e 8 f 4 g 9 h 7 i 2
9 a T
b NT The park did not look after his house after he
died.
c T
d NT They can visit it because the park built Beaver
Lodge again.