Wolves of the Beyond
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50 free Wolves of the Beyond trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Wolves of the Beyond is Kathryn Lasky's six-book fantasy about Faolan, a wolf pup left to die because of a twisted paw. He survives against the odds, grows up far from his own kind and then has to win a place among the clans that cast him out. The story begins as a tale of survival and ends as an epic journey. This quiz follows Faolan from Lone Wolf to Star Wolf. Many of the questions are about characters: his family, his friends among the lowest-ranked wolves, the owl and the bears who help him, and the rivals who want him gone. Others cover the clans and their strict laws, the wolves' own vocabulary, the Watch, and the famine and upheaval of the later books. The early questions suit anyone who has read the first book. Later ones are for readers who finished the series. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so the quiz also works as a refresher before a book report or a reread.
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Q 01In Lone Wolf, what name does the wolf pup Faolan give the grizzly bear who rescues and raises him?
Thunderheart
Thunderheart earned the name from her booming heartbeat, which the pup could hear while he nursed. She had just lost her own cub when she pulled him from the water.
Q 02Kathryn Lasky's Wolves of the Beyond is a spin-off of which of her earlier series?
Guardians of Ga'Hoole
Guardians of Ga'Hoole ran to sixteen books, and the wolves' country borders its owl kingdoms, so heroes and legends from the older series keep turning up.
Q 03In Wolves of the Beyond, what odd marking on Faolan's twisted paw unsettles the wolves who see it?
A spiral
A spiral on his paw pad makes even the wolf who carries him off uneasy. Late in the series he learns it stands for the many lives his soul has lived.
Q 04The wolves in Kathryn Lasky's Wolves of the Beyond belong to which species?
Dire wolf
Dire wolf packs roamed the Americas until about 10,000 years ago. The books imagine them thriving in a harsh wilderness of clans and strict laws.
Q 05In Wolves of the Beyond, which one-eyed she-wolf becomes Faolan's closest companion and eventually his mate?
Edme
Edme wins a place on the Watch alongside him in the second book, and by the last one the two friends have taken vows as mates.
Q 06In Wolves of the Beyond, which tailless yellow wolf frames Faolan for a crime and becomes his sworn enemy?
Heep
Heep hides his envy behind showy humility. Once he is exposed he flees past the border, and he returns later leading a band of outlaws.
Q 07In Lone Wolf, how does Faolan escape when the clans corner him?
He leaps a wall of fire
He leaps a wall of fire the clans built to trap him. The jump is so high that the frightened wolves accuse him of defying the natural order.
Q 08In Lone Wolf, which owl blacksmith comforts the grieving Faolan and urges him to rejoin his own kind?
Gwynneth
Gwynneth is a Masked Owl who works a forge in wolf country. She lost her own parents too, and she stays his ally through all six books.
Q 09In Lone Wolf, what disaster strikes while Faolan is away from the winter den, killing the bear who raised him?
An earthquake
An earthquake struck as she left the den to search for him. He hunted for her for months before finding her skull and howling his grief.
Q 10In Wolves of the Beyond, what is the lowest rank in a clan, the one Faolan must accept on joining?
Gnaw wolf
Gnaw wolf is the rank of outcast pups who survive and return: they eat last, sleep apart and carve the clan's records into bone.
Q 11Which clan of the Beyond, the one Faolan was born into, takes him back at the end of Lone Wolf?
MacDuncan
MacDuncan was the clan that had cast him out a year earlier. Its old leader recognised the pup by his odd paw and let him stay at the bottom of the pack.
Q 12Which publisher released Kathryn Lasky's Wolves of the Beyond series?
Scholastic
Scholastic also published the owl saga that the wolf books grew out of, and it issued all six volumes of Faolan's story.
Q 13In Lone Wolf, which bearlike skill does Faolan's foster mother teach him by tempting him with his favourite berries?
Walking on his hind legs
Q 21In Lone Wolf, which predators killed the last cub of the grizzly who goes on to adopt Faolan?
Cougars
Cougars had robbed her of what was probably her last cub. After losing her too, Faolan tracks one up a tree and kills it.
Q 22In Wolves of the Beyond, what do the clans call a pup born with a deformity, a word meaning cursed one?
Malcadh
Malcadh pups are carried off and left to the weather. One that survives and finds its way back may rejoin the clan, but only at the very bottom.
Q 23In Wolves of the Beyond, what title belongs to the barren she-wolf who carries deformed pups away?
Obea
Obea is a role given only to she-wolves who cannot have pups, and it carries no rank. The one who carried Faolan away was called Shibaan.
Walking on his hind legs began with berries she held just out of reach above his head. On his first clan hunt he rears up in front of a moose and wrecks the chase.
Q 14According to the bear who names him in Lone Wolf, what does the name Faolan mean?
Gift from the river
Gift from the river fits how she found him: a half-drowned pup that snagged on her leg as meltwater swept him downstream.
Q 15In the second Wolves of the Beyond book, what crime is Faolan falsely accused of before all the clans?
Murdering a wolf pup
Murdering a wolf pup was a charge built on planted evidence, and the sentence was death until the real killer was unmasked at the trial.
Q 16In Wolves of the Beyond, what does Faolan call the western land he leads the survivors toward?
The Distant Blue
The Distant Blue turns out to be a green land in full spring, and the place his kind had come from in the first place.
Q 17In Lone Wolf, what colour is the newborn Faolan's coat, unlike those of his two tawny sisters?
Silver
Silver was his mother's colour too. She bore her three pups in a den she had seized from a pregnant fox.
Q 18In Wolves of the Beyond, which lone healer, feared as a witch, whispers what she learns into memory jugs?
The Sark
The Sark lives apart from every clan with her potions and herbs. Grieving mothers visit her to forget the pups that were taken from them.
Q 19In Frost Wolf, what does the mysterious wolf who calls himself the Prophet wear to hide his face?
An owl's battle mask
An owl's battle mask, stolen from a fallen smith's resting place, hides him while he draws starving wolves into a deadly cult.
Q 20In Star Wolf, what do Faolan and the other survivors cross to leave the ruined Beyond behind?
A bridge of ice
A bridge of ice spans the frozen sea to the west. It is melting as they cross, and it crumbles into the water just as they leave it behind.
Q 24In Wolves of the Beyond, what is the long, flowing formation in which a pack runs down big game called?
Byrrgis
Byrrgis hunting gives every wolf a set place, with fast females out on the flanks. Faolan wrecks his first one by breaking formation.
Q 25In Wolves of the Beyond, which contest lets the lowest-ranked wolves compete for a place on the elite Watch?
Gaddergnaw
Gaddergnaw contests are held only when the Watch needs new members, and they test both carving and hunting. For once the competitors are treated with respect.
Q 26In Wolves of the Beyond, what is the name for the lonely spot where a deformed pup is left to die?
Tummfraw
Tummfraw sites are chosen to leave no chance of survival; Faolan's was the ice of a thawing stream. Watch candidates must go back and find theirs.
Q 27In Wolves of the Beyond, what are the pack howlers who read stories in the lightning called?
Skreeleens
Skreeleens also howl news of approaching herds. Faolan's hoarse-voiced friend becomes one on the border guard thanks to his fine howl.
Q 28In Wolves of the Beyond, what is the ritual of respect a hunter shows its dying prey called?
Lochinvyrr
Lochinvyrr means meeting the dying animal's eyes and acknowledging that its life will sustain the hunter. Even the owls hold a contest in it.
Q 29In Wolves of the Beyond, what do the wolves call their heaven at the top of the star ladder?
Cave of Souls
Cave of Souls is the wolves' heaven, set among the stars. Bears hope for Ursulana instead, and owls for Glaumora.
Q 30In Wolves of the Beyond, which lawless territory is home to savage wolves that belong to no clan?
The Outermost
The Outermost is where Faolan goes looking for his lost foster mother, and where he watches one clanless wolf start to eat another.