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Whale Rider Comprehension Questions

\Whale Rider, Ch. 8 1. What problem was the village facing? 2. Why was Koro Apirana bearing less of a grudge against Kahu? 3. What did he hold against her? 4. Who was Koro Apriana considering as a successor? 5. What kind of attention did Kahu get from her great-grandfather? 6. What did she feel for the old Paka? 7. How did Kahu become Rawiri’s mascot? 8. Why did Nanny Flowers call the group at the school sessions the Ku Klux Klan? 9. What was the lesson that Kahu could not overhear? 10. Who is Tangaroa? What has been the tradition regarding Tangaroa? 11. How have the people of the land not kept their pact with Tangaroa? 12. What was the story that Koro was telling the school attendees? 13. why did Kahu get so upset with Paka? What was his reaction? 14. Where did Rawiri find Kahu the next morning? What was she doing?

Autumn Season of the sound Whale Chapter 9 1. where is the herd of whales? What are waiting for? 2. Why is their leader grieving? What happened? 3. What did the leader notice on the ocean floor? What danger does this pose to the herd? 4. How had the golden master trained the whale to respond to him? 5. What was the herd forced to do?

Chapter 10 1. What did Rawiri do when Kahu was 4? 2. Why did he stay so long in Australia? 3. What was his life like in Sydney? What did he keep thinking of in the early morning hours? 4. What did Rawiri tell his new roommate Kingi about Kahu? 5. What was the phone call that changed Rawiri’s life?

Chapter 11 1. What kind of reception did Rawiri get at Jeff’s home? 2. What are the forces in Papua New Guinea that make life difficult? 3. What was the government trying to do in Papua New Guinea? What were they fighting against? 4. How was the struggle in New Zealand different? 5. How does Rawiri look at his stay in Papua New Guinea? What did this experience serve? 6. What did Porourangi report to Rawiri about Koro’s search for a successor? 7. Who came to live with Nanny flowers and Porourangi? What kind of reception did she get? 8. What did Porourangi write to Rawiri about the challenges facing the Maori? 9. How is Koro like an old whale stranded in an alien present? 10. How was the relationship between Rawiri and Jeff? What about between Rawiri and Jeff’s parents? What rule had Rawiri broken that led to the family’s rejection of him? 11. What finally convinced Rawiri to return home?

Chapter 12 1. How was Rawiri’s homecoming? 2. How had people changed? 3. How was Kahu a ‘sucker for punishment’? 4. How is Kahu like Mihi? 5. When Koro rejected Kahu what was her reaction? 6. What amazed Rawiri about Kahu? 7. What does Nanny Flowers wear to Kahu’s end of the school year ceremony? 8. What moved Nanny Flowers to tears? 9. How did Kahu react to Koro’s absence?

Chapter 13 1. What happened when Koro took the boys out in the boat to retrieve the stone? 2. How does Kahu get out to the water? 3. who helps her find the stone? 4. Why did Nanny Flowers not want to tell Koro about the experience?

Winter, Whale Song Whale Rider Chapter 14 1. Who is the golden master in this story? 2. Where is the herd of whales now? 3. Why is the first part of this chapter in regular type and the second part in italics? 4. Why has the leader brought his herd here? Why are the females in despair?

Chapter 15 1. What happened on the beach of Wainui that caused sorrow and anger among the people? 2. What did Rawiri and his friends do? 3. Who arrived to help take the stranded whales back out to sea? 4. What did the rescued whale then do? 5. What finally happened to all the whales? 6. When Rawiri returned home where does he find Kahu?

Chapter 16 1. Why is Koro so upset when he arrives back home? 2. On the way home, as they pass the beach where the dead whales lay, what does Koro do? 3. As they arrive at Whangara what suddenly happens? 4. Where does the ancient whale place itself? 5. In his meeting with the village men what does Koro try to explain? 6. What test awaits the men? 7. What happens in the struggle to lead the whale out to sea? 8. What is Koro’s explanation of the whale’s choice?

Chapter 17 1. How does Kahu save the whale?

Chapter 18 2. How does Kahu manage to save the people?

Chapter 19 3. Out at sea who notices Kahu first? 4. What does the old one think? 5. How does the queen mother whale convince him to return the whale rider? 6. What happens to Nanny Flowers when she realizes that Kahu has disappeared? Chapter 20 1. Days later when Nanny flowers wakes up what does she discover about Kahu? 2. How does Kahu wake up? 3. What do the whales rejoice about? Chapter 21 1. When Kahu awakes, what is Koro’s reaction? 2. What does Kahu hear? 3. What is the message?