Where was the school Margaret attended? Aklavik

How long would it take Margaret and her father to go from their home to Aklavik to get supplies? Five days

What country did the priests come from? Belgium

What was Ayouniq’s name after she returned from school? “Rosie”

What book did Rosie read to her? Clue: She asked what a rabbit was. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

What is the name of the language of the Inuvialiut? Inuvialuktun

Who are the aboriginal people of the western Arctic? Inuvialuit

What do they call their parkas? Mother Hubbard

At the beginning of the book, how many times had “the outsiders” come for Margaret to ask for her to go to school?Four

In what month and year did Margaret ask her father if she could go to school? February 1944

Her father tells her that the school will feed her only what? Cabbage soup and porridge

Her father tells her that the school will teach them that the “spirit inside of you is” what? Bad

How old is Agnes? 10

What does a Delta braid decorate? Mother Hubbard parkas

On what island does Margaret live in the winter? Banks

Where does Margaret live? The Arctic Circle

What is the name of the schooner (boat) that takes her to school? North Star

What is a schooner? A sailing vessel with masts

Margaret’s dad creates an analogy that she is like a rock and school will do what to her? Smooth the edges and turn her into a pebble

Was Margaret’s mother happy about the news that her father said she could go to school? No

When Margaret’s family left the island, how many schooners traveled with theirs? 6

Each schooner carried how many families? 6 or 7

What rivers did they travel up? Mackenzie and Peel

What was the name of the settlement of herders where they stayed? Reindeer Station

Where is the school? Aklavik

Who was Margaret’s great-grandfather? Old Man Pokiak

What was the name of the oldest company in North American where hunters and trappers traded their pelts for supplies? Hudson’s Bay Company

What color stockings did Margaret’s mom buy her? Gray

What else did her mother buy her? Soap, toothbrush and past, comb

What is the RCMP? The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (or Mounties) -- Canada’s national police force

When is Dominion Day? July 1st

What is Dominion Day also known as? Canada Day

What is a ptarmigan? A bird

How old was Margaret when she started school? Just over 8

What does Inuit mean? Aboriginal people

Who cuts the girls’ braids off? The nuns

What colors are the two pinafores Margaret receives? Navy blue and khaki

Where do the Yup’ik live? Western and central Alaska and eastern Russia

What does the nun name Olemaun? Margaret

Who gave Margaret her birth name “Olemaun”? Her grandfather

What did Olemaun’s mother accidentally buy instead of toothpaste? Shaving cream

What is a honey bucket? A bucket used as a toilet

Where did the students dump the honey buckets? In the river

When does Agnes tell Margaret that the students will start to learn? In the fall during the “great freeze”

When did King George VI rule? 1936-1952

Who saved Margaret from The Raven’s hand when the soup was spilled on her? Sister MacQuillan

What is another name for aurora borealis? The northern lights

What color are the northern lights? Green or greenish-blue

The northern lights are more visible at the equinoxes during two months. Which ones? March & September

What do they call the men who work at the school? “Brothers”

What are the letters for the radio station? CHAK

When it’s Olemaun’s turn to record a message for her parents what does she do? She’s silent

What is Olemaun’s punishment for being silent at the radio station? She had to clean the chicken coop.

What color are the stockings that The Raven gives Olemaun? Red

What character from Alice in Wonderland does Margaret imagine that The Raven is?The Queen of Hearts

Who first calls Margaret “Fatty Legs”? Katherine

When Katherine first calls Margaret “Fatty Legs,” what does Margaret say in response? “Fatty Face”

Whom do the students call “Skinny Legs”? Agnes

What did Margaret do with her red stockings? Burned them in the fire

What is Margaret’s last name? Pokiak

Who tells Margaret that she’s brave for burning her stockings? Sister MacQuillan

Who gives Margaret a key to get replacement stockings from the storeroom? The Swan/Sister MacQuillan

What color stockings does Margaret get to replace the red stockings? Gray

What does Sister MacQuillan give Margaret when she leaves school? The copy of Alice in Wonderland

What does Qugyuk mean? Swan

What does Sister MacQuillan call Margaret when she says that she will miss her? Olemaun (or by her real name)

What does Olemaun call Sister MacQuillan? Swan or Qugyuk

What was the name of the boat Margaret travelled on when she left school and returned to Tuktoyaktuk? The Immaculata

How long did Margaret attend the school? Two years

What did Margaret’s mother say when she saw her? “Not my girl! Not my girl!”

How old was Margaret when she returned to her family? 10-years old

What did Margaret’s mother bring her when she returned? Some of her old favorite food

What did Margaret think about the food she used to love? That it was greasy and salty

Why did Margaret eventually return to school in Aklavik? When her younger sisters wanted to go, she went to make sure they were safe

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IWB do they cut the children’s hair because they don’t have time for them to braid it?

IWB are there pingos, or small ice hills?

IWB is there a place called “Reindeer Station”?

IWB do they celebrate Dominion Day?

IWB does a father create a balloon by blowing up the “sac from the throat of a ptarmigan?”

IWB is a school divided into a Boys and Girls side?

IWB do nuns cut the braids off girls?

IWB are moccasins exchanged for “outsider-shoes”?

IWB is a character renamed by a nun?

IWB do students use “honey buckets”?

IWB are their “outsiders”?

IWB is a character referred to as “The Raven”?

IWB do characters eat cabbage soup day after day?

IWB does a character knock a bowl of soup onto a nun?

IWB does a character receive sad news in a letter from her father?

IWB does a school make money by keeping the students?

IWB do people get sick with the smallpox?

IWB does a character accidentally pee on herself when someone scares her?

IWB does a character write a letter to her family, telling them how unhappy she is?

IWB is there a radio station CHAK?

IWB do characters go to a radio station to send messages to their families?

IWB do characters make a mean sound of “Boom, Boom, Boom” when another character walks by?

IWB does a character get to school by boat?

IWB is a character able to take charge of her own sled team by the time she was 10?

IWB is a character called “The Swan”?

IWB does a mother not recognize her daughter after she returns from school?