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The Wild Children: Chapters 1-3 Questions

Chapter 1

1.Why hadn’t Alex heard his family being taken away?

2. Why did an overturned chair alert him that something was wrong?

3. What had been happening to people in Alex’s city? Why?

4. How had the civil war affected ordinary people?

5. What did Alex find ironic about the “people’s government”?

6. What advice did his father give him when Alex asked questions about the government?

7. Why did Alex decided to gather his possessions and leave the house?

8. Why couldn’t he go to the church?

9. What did Alex mean when he said that words, once spoken, have wings?

10. What excuse did he give Grisha for staying after school?

11. Why didn’t Alex think that Katriana’s house matched her?

12. How did Katrina get bread?

13. What was Katriana’s view of how communism would succeed?

14. What would happen to Alex if he were caught?

15. What did Alex decide to do?

16. Where did Katriana want to go? 17. How would she manage to get away?

Chapter 2

1. Why did Katriana walk by the building instead of coming up right away?

2. How did Alex feel about going to Moscow? Why?

3. How was Alex’s walk to Vladimir different today from any other time?

4. What did he find when he arrived at the station?

5. What was the problem with buying the ticket to Moscow?

6. What happened when Alex climbed on the pile of sacks?

7. Why did Alex panic when he awoke from his nap?

8. What were the boys doing?

9. Why did the train stop suddenly?

10. What choices did Alex have?

11. What did Alex realize the next morning?

12. How did chewing on his handkerchief help him?

13. What was surprising about the boy’s answer to Alex?

14. Why did a woman wake Alex when he dozed off?

Chapter 3

1.What did Alex do to try to stop thinking of soup?

2. What did Alex see along the sides of the road? What did he do?

3. Who did the solider think Alex was?

4. What news did he receive at his uncle’s house?

5. Why did Alex squint when he looked at the buildings?

6. What happened in the square?

7. Why do you think Alex pointed the solider in the wrong direction?

8. Why did the tall boy question Alex?

9. Where do you think Peter is taking Alex?