Touching Spirit Bear

Question 1

Cole Matthews in the bow of the aluminum skiff as he faced forward into a cold September wind. Worn steel handcuffs bit at his wrists each time the small craft slapped into another wave.

Answer 1

Defiantly

Question 2

Cole strained at the cuffs even though he had agreed to wear to waer them until he was freed on the island to begin his banishment.

Answer 2

Banishment

Question 3

Cole feigned surprise as if he had made a horrible mistake, then twisted at the handcuffs again.

Answer 3

Feigned

Question 4

Several weeks earlier, Edwin, the Tlingit elder from Drake, had built a sparse one- room wood shelter for Cole on the island

Answer 4

Sparse

Question 5

This island is covered with Devil’s club. Don’t grab it or hundreds of tiny Thistles will infect your hands and make them swell up like sausages.

Answer 5

Devil’s Club

Question 6

Spewing a barrage of venomous curses, he took the blanket Garvey had given him and flung it to the ground.

Answer 6

Barrage

Question 7

Cole walked sullenly around the room. cursing he swept his arm across the table and sent the baking ingredients

Answer 7

Sullenly

Question 8

Wrapping broke open. Plastic containers ricocheted off the wall.

Answer 8

Ricocheted

Question 9

My parents- that’s a joke,” Cole scoffed. “they don’t care if i’m dead or alive”

Answer 9

Scoffed

Question 10

Peter walked awkwardly, shuffling his feet and glancing timidly around around the room.

Answer 10

Timidly

Question 11

This circle carries only two Obligations-honesty and respect

Answer 11

Obligations

Question 12

He shook his head to clear the Illusion, but it was no Illusion this was the same spot he had been at a thousand strokes.

Answer 12

Illusion

Question 13

All he could Conjure up were fleeting nations; he couldn’t stand up, He needed warmth

Answer 13

Conjure

Question 14

“Cole has will and Courage, but he also has ugly anger

Answer 14

Will and Courage

Question 15

Cole swatted at the Persistent mosquitoes and studied the bay. His only mistake in trying to escape had been forgetting about the incoming tide

Answer 15

Persistent

Question 16

Steady blowing soon coaxed a weak flame to life. This time he would leave with his body warm and his belly full of food.

Answer 16

Coaxed

Question 17

Cole turned his head and stared into the the black nothingness of the shrouded woods

Answer 17

Shrouded

Question 18

For two hours his mind roiled with turbulent thoughts before he fell into a restless tortured sleep

Answer 18

Turbulent

Question 19

A blur of white motion deflected the shaft down into the grass as the bear lunged

Answer 19

Deflected

Question 20

What would happen when the last bit of warmth seeped from his body

Answer 20

Seeped

Question 21

Desperate tears welled up inside and squeezed past his eyelids.

Answer 21

Welled

Question 22

Watching the bird made Cole curse every second of his miserable and haphazard life.

Answer 22

Haphazard

Question 23

he felt himself slipping into darkness and blinked hard, doggedly clinging to life, willing himself to not let go.

Answer 23

Doggedly

Question 24

All his life he had squandered his choices, wallowing in revenge and self-pity, keeping himself down

Answer 24

Squandered

Question 25

This mouse was his quarry, like a gull catching a herring or an owl catching a rabbit

Answer 25

Quarry

Question 26

He dropped them into his mouth, and chewed. the animals weren’t the only one who could forage to survive

Answer 26

Forage

Question 27

The wretched insects sucked life from him faster than he could replenish it. He closed his eyes to the bloodletting, but that did not stop the torment,

Answer 27

Wretched

Question 28

A second time it dipped its head then stepped back away. with one fluid motion, it swug around and ambled silently down toward the waterline

Answer 28

Ambled

Question 29

The screaming of the engine grew muted, replaced by anxious voices shouting to them.

Answer 29

Muted