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| Who are Gikuyu, Makena, Wanjiro, Kebiro, and Mathani? | Mogo's brothers and sisters |
| What is a group of warthogs called? | a sounder |
| What are the warthogs eating before the rainy season? | roots |
| What is Mogo's favorite food? | rhizomes |
| What are rhizomes? | The big fleshy part of the plant that is underground, just above the roots. |
| Why does Mogo believe he has grown bigger and stronger than most runts? | Because he has been eating rhizomes. |
| How do warthogs mark their territory? | By drooling and urinating. |
| Why did Mogo's mother back into their den when they were escaping the lionesses? | She wanted to show by her fierce face that she was ready to fight. |
| Why are nursery chambers high off the ground? | In case of flooding. |
| What is mother's rule for escaping from predators? | run and dodge |
| How did Wanjiro escape the talons of the eagle? | By twisting and kicking. |
| How was mother able to charge an attacking hyena without getting killed? | The hyena had no pack to back him up. |
| What made Mogo and his brothers turn red? | Rolling in red mud. |
| What event marks the time that Mogo and his brothers must be on their own? | When the rains come and their mother has a new litter. |
| Which gender of warthog is social and which lives alone? | Sows are social, boars live alone. |
| Under what animal do Mogo and his siblings seek refuge when the rains come and their mother is gone? | Under a rhino |
| What advice does the rhino give the warthogs when a cheetah spots them? | Look big. |
| Why doesn't the cheetah attack the warthogs? | She saw a kudu and chased it instead. |
| Why was it smart for the warthogs to surround themselves with an impala herd? | Impalas are taller and would give off and alarm, and warthogs are bigger and less attractive prey. |
| What are the lion cubs playing catch with? | an ostrich egg |
| Why were Mogo's sisters allowed to stay at the burrow? | Females stay with the sounder and males must make it on their own. |
| What advice does mother give to her sons? | Find an abandoned aardvark burrow and dig it out wide enough to be comfortable. |
| What group do the sounders in an area form? | a clan |
| Who convices the brother warthogs to stick together? | Mogo |
| Why is it a bad idea to graze with gazelles? | They are the favorite prey of wild dogs. |
| Why is it important for the warthogs to do things the way they have always been done? | The system improves their chances for survival. |
| What did the aardvark mother do at the termite mound? | Ate the termites. |
| In the fight between the wild dog and the ratel, who was the winner? | the ratel |
| What killed the ratel and how? | Bees stung the ratel repeatedly on the wound on his hind leg. |
| Why is the ratel's burrow unsuitable for a warthog? | It is too shallow and there is no back door. |
| Which brother decides to make his home in the ratel's burrow? | Kebiro |
| Name some things warthogs eat besides roots and rhizomes. | ostrich eggs, insects, frogs, toads, lizards, rodents, snakes |
| Why does Mogo love being surrounded by mongooses? | They eat the ticks off his back and groom him. Plus, he likes being surrounded by warm bodies. |
| Where do Mathani and Mogo take refuge when the wild dogs approach the mongooses? | In a termite mound with the mongooses. |
| What is the first food the baboon throws to Mogo? | a mushroom |
| How does Mathani die? | When he returns to the termite mound, he finds that wild dogs have mvoed in. He is unable to outrun them. |
| Why does Mogo search for a giraffe herd? | They see danger from a distance, they don't run faster than warthogs, adn wild dogs don't go after them. |
| What is the second food the baboon | a mudfish |
| How does the baboon greet the warthogs? | By saying "Wahoo". |
| Why is "a lone baboon a dead baboon"? | He doesn't have the protection of his kind. |
| How did Kebiro die? | The wild dogs were able to dig into his shallow burrow. |
| After Kebiro's death where does Mogo decide to go? | Back to the ardvaark burrow to make it into a home. |
| After Kebiro's death where does Mathani go? | Back tos tay with the mongooses. |
| What change did Mogo have to make to the aardvark burrow so that he could use it as his home? | He had to make it bigger. |
| When does Mogo find a small sounder? | While looking for giraffes. |
| What is Mogo's opinion of the small sounder he finds? | One of the females is beautiful, but the sounder is not as good at survival as the one he grew up in. |
| Why does Mogo abandon the second burrow he has widened? | It is so big inside, he wants to leave it for multiple litters. |
| What food does Mogo give to the baboon? | berries |
| What new food does the baboon leave outside Mogo's burrow? | water lilies |
| Toward the end of the story, how does Mogo scare away the lone wild dog? | By threatening him with his tusks. |
| What are the strategies that the giraffes rehearse? | run, kick |
| Why is Mogo afraid for the baby giraffe? | His mother has left him alonewhile she drinks at the river bank. |
| Why doesn't the babon join the baboon tribe that Mogo found? | He is in exile, like Mogo. |
| What did the baboon give to the female baboon and her mother? | flowers |
| Why did the baboon give the female baboons flowers? | He was courting the young female baboon. |
| What animals attack when the baboon is courting the female? | a wild dog pack |
| Where do the baboons go when the dogs attack? | To the big aardvark burrow that Mogo widened. |
| Where does Mogo go after the baboons enter the burrow? | He backs in after them and scares the dogs away with his tusks. |
| Baboons are cast out of their tribes when they mature, but how are their lives different than the lives of boars? | Baboons can find another tribe to join, but boars live out the rest of their lives alone. |
| Why does the last male baboon to leave the aardvark burrow appear miserable? | It was his mate and baby the wild dogs killed? |
| What does Mogo's mother tell him when she sees him at the end of the story? | That he looks different, but good and to live well. |
| Why was it important to Mogo to see his old sounder? | He was reassured that his family loved him even though they could no longer be together. |
| Who finally kills the dog Mogo calls Monster? | Mogo's friend, the baboon. |
| How did Mogo save the sow and her piglets? | By telling htem where to find a burrow and getting Mosnter to chase him instead. |
| Wht does Mogo decide he will do for the rest of his life? | Guard his new sounder and provide for them. |
