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Jack and Annie are sent to the Ice Age as they look for the third special thing they need to help Morgan. They run into a sabertooth tiger and receive help from a woolly mammoth and a sorcerer.
Read one section at a time, then discuss the questions to review understanding. These questions are a starting place for conversation, not a complete test of the chapter.
Chapter 1
Comprehension questions
What letter do the four special things start with?
Page 7 — M
7
Why didn’t Jack want to go to the place with the rocks and snow?
Page 8 — They weren’t prepared, they had on their bathing suits, didn’t have coats
8
Chapter 2
Comprehension questions
Why couldn’t Jack and Annie go back to get warmer clothes?
Page 11 — They won’t be able find the Pennsylvania book until their mission is complete
11
Where did the tree house take Jack and Annie?
Page 11 — Ice age
11
Who were the people that Jack and Annie standing on the cliff?
Page 14 — Cro-Magnons
14
Where did Jack and Annie go to get warm?
Page 19 — A cave
19
Chapter 3
Comprehension questions
Who did Jack and Annie hear snoring in the cave?
Page 21 — A great cave bear
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Did the bear wake up?
Page 22 — No
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Annie noticed another cave. What was different about it from the bear cave?
Page 23 — It had a golden glow, looked cozy, safe and warm
23
Chapter 4
Comprehension questions
Why did the cave glow?
Page 24 — There was a fire in it
24
What else was in the cave?
Page 26 — Knives, axes, hollowed out stones, animal skins
26
What did Jack and Annie put on?
Page 26 — coats
26
What did Annie find down the tunnel of the cave?
Page 32 — Animals painted on the wall
32
Chapter 5
Comprehension questions
Why did the Cro-Magnons paint pictures on the wall?
Page 33 — They believed the paintings would give them power over the animals
33
Who is the “Master of the Animals”?
Page 35 — A sorcerer who leads the cavemen
35
Who was missing when Jack and Annie came back through the tunnel?
Page 35 — Peanut
35
Chapter 6
Comprehension questions
What did Annie and Jack see in the snow?
Page 38 — Peanut’s tracks
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What made them disappear?
Page 39 — The wind
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What does a sabertooth look like?
Page 39 — A giant tiger with two long sharp fangs
39
What did the children fall into?
Page 41 — A trap the Cro-Magnons made
41
Who looked down at the children when they were in the pit?
Page 43 — Sorcerer and Peanut
43
Chapter 7
Comprehension questions
Who saved Jack and Annie?
Page 46 — The sorcerer and the woolly mammoth, Lulu
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What did the sorcerer give Jack?
Page 50 — Mammoth bone flute
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Where was the mammoth taking Jack and Annie?
Page 51 — To the tree house
51
Chapter 8
Comprehension questions
What animals joined Lulu and the children as they traveled to the tree house?
Page 54 — Reindeer, bison, rhino, elk
54
What began chasing the mammoth and the children?
Page 55 — Sabertooth
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Chapter 9
Comprehension questions
What made the sabertooth leave them alone?
Page 59 — Jack played the mammoth bone flute
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What did Jack and Annie need to give back to the Cro-Magnons before they left?
Page 63 — Coats
63
Chapter 10
Comprehension questions
What things have Jack and Annie found so far?
Page 67 — Moonstone, mango, mammoth bone
67
How many more things do Jack and Annie need to find to help Morgan?
Page 67 — One
67
How did Jack and Annie feel about being home?
Page 68 — Happy, glad
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