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Marven of the Great North Woods
(By Kathryn Lasky)
Directions: Answer each question in a complete sentence.
Record the page number where you found your answer.
Record the paragraph number where you found your answer.
1. Why was Marvin sent to a lumber camp to work?
Page # / Paragraph # / Answer (In a complete sentence)2. What words help you visualize the camp and what senses are involved?
Page # / Paragraph # / Answer (In a complete sentence)3. What conclusion can you draw about how Marven felt about waking up the sleeping lumberjacks? What details support your answer?
Page # / Paragraph # / Answer (In a complete sentence)4. What simile did the author use when writing about Jean Louis’s feet? What is being compared? What conclusion can you draw about Jean Louis?
Page # / Paragraph # / Answer (In a complete sentence)5. What was Marven’s job at the camp? Describe Marven’s job at the camp.
Page # / Paragraph # / Answer (In a complete sentence)6. What did Marven have to do on his first morning?
Page # / Paragraph # / Answer (In a complete sentence)7. What do you think “Leve-toi” means?
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8. What does the saying “good with numbers” mean? Who was good with numbers?
Page # / Paragraph # / Answer (In a complete sentence)9. Why did Marven cry as he was skiing across the lake?
Page # / Paragraph # / Answer (In a complete sentence)10. What was Marven probably thinking when he didn’t see his family at the train depot?
Page # / Paragraph # / Answer (In a complete sentence)11. How did Marven change?
Page # / Paragraph # / Answer (In a complete sentence)