Are you ready for the quiz? If not, read and answer the following review questions to help you be more prepared!
Part One: Review Questions
Chapter 1-2
1. Who is Garvey?
2. Who is Edwin?
Chapter 3
1. Think back to Garvey's statement in
the first chapter that "Something terrible has happened to you to make you
want to kill a poor, small animal.: Then
look at the list of the "ingredients" of Cole's life on page 30. How do these connect?
2.
Who is allowed to be at Cole's Circle?
3. Why is it important for Peter
to forgive Cole?
Chapter 4
1. Why is it significant
that Cole gives a threatening look to Peter at the beginning of the Circle?
2. According to the Keeper,
what is the point of the Circle, and why does regular justice often fail?
Chapter 5
1. For the first time, Cole admits that he made a mistake. What was the mistake?
2. Describe Cole's first encounter with what appears to be Spirit
Bear.
3. Review the four comments make about Cole at the Circle on page
46. Which comments do you agree
with? Which ones do you disagree
with? Justify your answer
Chapter 6
1. What does
Cole accuse his father of in the Circle?
How does his father respond?
2. Why do you
think Cole's mother did not tell the Circle how his father would beat up on
him?
3. When the Keeper asks Peter what needs to be done
to make things better, he responds by saying, "I think someone should
smash Cole's head against a sidewalk so he know how it feels." Do you think Cole already knows how this
might feel? Why or why not?
4. Garvey
discusses some of the reasons that isolation works to help heal a
criminal. What are these reasons?
Chapter 7
1. Cole plans on escaping the island, yet still
attempts to kill the Spirit Bear. What
does this say about Cole, and his respect for life?
2. As Cole inches toward the Spirit Bear, he
stops, looks around, and becomes aware that nobody is watching and he could
easily back away. What compels him to
keep approaching?
Chapter 8
1. As Cole lays bleeding, he thinks to himself,
"What luck...to end up on an island with a stupid bear that didn't have
brains enough to run away." Has
Cole realized his responsibility for what has happened?
2. Cole states he would rather be in a prison
cell than on the island. What are his
reasons?
3. What does Cole's crushing of the caterpillar
indicate about his personality, even in his beaten state?
Chapter
9:
1. What happens to the tree with the sparrow's
nest during the storm? Why do you think
Cole calls out to see if the baby sparrows are okay?
Chapter
10:
1. Cole
notices that the baby sparrows tried to do something before their death. What was it?
How does Cole relate this to his experience growing up?
2. Cole
begins to think about the circle of life.
What is this circle, according to Cole, and how does he feel about his
role in it?
3. Cole thinks,"The power to choose was the
real power, not the fake power of making others afraid." Explain this statement. (Answer this well...it will help you later
on. Hint. Hint.)
4.What
does Cole catch to eat at the end of this chapter?
Chapter
11:
1. What
are some of the things that Cole Does to survive? Be specific.
Chapter
12
1. When
Spirit Bear comes back, why do you think Cole choose not to spit on him, but
instead touch him?
2. How does Cole feel about death?
3. What do Edwin and Garvey do with Cole?
4. When Cole says
that he's okay, what does he mean by this?
