Q 01/05

What does Peter throw into the woods as a trick, so Pax will chase it and be left behind?

A) A tennis ball

B) A toy soldier

C) A chewed slipper

D) A rubber bone

Answer · why

B) A toy soldier

A toy soldier was Pax's favourite plaything, so he bounds after it believing it is a game, and comes back to the road in time to see the car driving a...

Q 02/05

What does the Latin word pax, the name Peter gives his pet fox, mean in English?

A) Hope

B) Friend

C) Light

D) Peace

Answer · why

D) Peace

Peace is the meaning, and Peter comes to find the name bitterly ironic: his pet was abandoned, and may die, because of a war.

Q 03/05

Which relative is Peter sent to live with, hundreds of miles from Pax, at the start of the novel?

A) His grandfather

B) His uncle

C) His aunt

D) His older cousin

Answer · why

A) His grandfather

His grandfather has no room for a fox, tame or otherwise, and Peter lasts less than a night there before remorse sends him hiking back.

Q 04/05

How did Peter's mother die, five years before the events of the novel Pax begin?

A) A long illness

B) A house fire

C) A car accident

D) A bombing raid

Answer · why

C) A car accident

A car accident killed her on a grocery run, and Peter blames himself: he had been kept behind that day as a punishment for an angry outburst.

Q 05/05

Which predators is Pax fighting off when Peter finally catches up with him at the novel's climax?

A) Wolves

B) Coyotes

C) Bobcats

D) Black bears

Answer · why

B) Coyotes

Coyotes close in because they sense an injured fox in Pax's group, and Peter's arrival helps to drive them away.