Julie of the Wolves
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40 free Julie of the Wolves trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Julie of the Wolves has been a classroom staple for more than fifty years, and it still divides readers. A thirteen-year-old runs from an unhappy home onto the Arctic tundra, loses her way, and survives by learning to read a pack of wild wolves. It is a survival story, a coming-of-age story and an argument about what happens when an old way of life meets a new one. This quiz follows the book the way a good comprehension check should. It covers the three parts of the plot, the people in Julie's life, the wolves she names, the skills and traditions she relies on, and the choice she faces at the end. A few questions step outside the story to the writer's research trip, the awards, the sequels and the criticism the novel has drawn from Alaska Native readers. It suits students reading the novel in class, teachers who want a ready check on understanding, and adults revisiting a childhood favourite. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches something.
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Q 01What name does Julie give the big black leader of the wolf pack in Julie of the Wolves?
Amaroq
Amaroq follows an Iñupiaq word for wolf, though a teacher from Barrow later noted that the proper spelling is amaguq.
Q 02Which American nature writer won a 1973 children's book prize for Julie of the Wolves?
Jean Craighead George
Jean Craighead George wrote more than a hundred books for children and worked in the 1940s as a Washington Post reporter.
Q 03In Julie of the Wolves, which California city is home to the pen pal Julie sets out to reach?
San Francisco
San Francisco reaches Julie through letters about television and sports cars, and her plan is to walk to the coast and sail there.
Q 04How does the wolf pack's leader die as Julie nears the coast in Julie of the Wolves?
Shot from an airplane
Shot from an airplane by hunters, the leader is killed, and the black pup she loves is badly wounded by the same gunfire.
Q 05Which award, won a year earlier by Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, went to Julie of the Wolves in 1973?
Newbery Medal
The Newbery Medal honours the year's most distinguished American children's book, and the author said it meant more to her than a Nobel.
Q 06Researching Julie of the Wolves in Barrow, its author learned what term for a pack's dominant mated pair?
Alphas
Alphas, later DNA studies showed, are strangers who meet and mate, while their grown pups stay on to help raise the next litter.
Q 07In Julie of the Wolves, which traditional name does Julie reclaim when she walks out onto the tundra?
Miyax
Miyax is what the author calls her while she lives with the wolves, and the switch back to Julie in the last sentence is itself the ending.
Q 08In Julie of the Wolves, what posture must Julie keep before the wolf pack will accept her?
On her hands and knees
On her hands and knees is the only way in, a rule the author learned from scientists: wild wolves will not approach a standing human.
Q 09Barrow, the town Julie flees in Julie of the Wolves, holds which distinction among United States cities?
The northernmost
The northernmost city in the country, Barrow voted in 2016 to restore its Iñupiaq name, Utqiaġvik.
Q 10In Julie of the Wolves, what is the name of Julie's father, a great hunter she believes is dead?
Kapugen
Kapugen gives his name to the book's third part, and people in Mekoryuk know him by an English name, Charlie.
Q 11What is the name of the California pen pal whose letters tempt Julie south in Julie of the Wolves?
Amy
Amy gets a second life in the 1994 sequel, where Julie gives the name to a newborn wolf pup.
Q 12Which wolf turns on Julie and steals the backpack holding her supplies in Julie of the Wolves?
Jello
Jello pays for the theft: Julie later finds him dead, killed by the pack's leader for turning against her.
Q 13In Julie of the Wolves, what makes Julie run away from Barrow onto the open tundra?
Her husband attacks her
Her husband attacks her after other boys tease him about the marriage, and she packs her things and leaves at once.
Q 21Which coastal settlement is Julie trekking toward, hoping to board a ship, in Julie of the Wolves?
Point Hope
Point Hope puzzled one Barrow teacher who reviewed the book, since the ship Julie hopes to catch there also calls at Barrow.
Q 22Which stern aunt takes Julie away to Mekoryuk and disapproves of her friends in Julie of the Wolves?
Martha
Martha is drawn as distant and cold, and Julie never feels like more than an unwanted guest in her house.
Q 23After the pack's leader dies in Julie of the Wolves, what does Julie make to keep his spirit close?
A carved totem
A carved totem of the wolf is one of several comforts Julie makes for herself; she also decorates her shelters, dances and sings.
Q 14What is the name of the boy Julie marries at thirteen in an arranged match in Julie of the Wolves?
Daniel
Daniel is the son of Naka, her father's old friend, and the two men had agreed the match years before as her way out of Mekoryuk.
Q 15After her pet bird dies at the end of Julie of the Wolves, what does Julie do?
Heads back to her father
She heads back to her father, an open ending the author said means Julie accepts him and the changes reaching her people.
Q 16Why is nine-year-old Julie taken from her father to live in Mekoryuk in Julie of the Wolves?
To attend school
To attend school, as the law required: her aunt arrives with the paperwork, and Julie's years of learning from her father end overnight.
Q 17After her mother dies in Julie of the Wolves, where does Julie's father carry her to live?
A seal camp
A seal camp is where he teaches her the old ways of living off the land, years she remembers in vivid colour.
Q 18In Julie of the Wolves, which intruder does the pack's leader drive away when it comes too close to Julie?
A grizzly bear
A grizzly bear wanders too near her shelter and the lead wolf sees it off, a sign the pack now counts Julie as one of its own.
Q 19Why has Julie believed her father dead since her years in Mekoryuk in Julie of the Wolves?
He vanished at sea
He vanished at sea on a hunting trip in his kayak, and searchers found only pieces of the boat washed ashore.
Q 20Lost and starving in Julie of the Wolves, why does Julie expect a wolf pack to feed her?
They once fed her father
They once fed her father, a story that convinces her she can ask for food too if she learns their signals.
Q 24The middle part of Julie of the Wolves, covering Julie's life before the tundra, takes what form?
A flashback
A flashback fills the middle third, a device the author had already used in her earlier runaway story about Sam Gribley.
Q 25Which 1959 novel about runaway Sam Gribley did the Julie of the Wolves author write first?
My Side of the Mountain
My Side of the Mountain sends Sam to live inside a hollow tree in the Catskills with a falcon named Frightful.
Q 26The Barrow trip that inspired Julie of the Wolves began as wolf research for which magazine?
Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest was where her wolf article was headed, and the research put her and her son Luke among scientists at an Arctic laboratory.
Q 27Flying into Barrow, what did the Julie of the Wolves author's son spot that inspired the book?
A small girl out alone
A small girl out alone on the tundra looked awfully little to be there, her son remarked, and the image stayed with the author.
Q 28Julie of the Wolves mentions the ulo, a tool still sold as a souvenir across Alaska; what is it?
A woman's knife
A woman's knife, the ulo handles everything from skinning animals to cutting a child's hair and trimming blocks of snow.
Q 29Which part of a caribou kill does Julie prize as the richest food in Julie of the Wolves?
The liver
The liver holds the most nutrients, and Julie follows tradition by eating it and lifting her arms to the sun in thanks.
Q 30In Julie of the Wolves, what makes a hunter wealthy in the old sense Julie respects?
Intelligence, courage and love
Intelligence, courage and love are the riches the old ways counted, which is why Julie calls the pack's leader a wealthy wolf.