'Hunter's Moon' - Garry Kilworth Quiz

Answer: O-ha

The book is based on O-ha's life, in which she has a mate called A-ho who later dies, leaving her to care for the cubs alone (they die as well). Later on in the book, she has another mate, and cubs.

Answer: Melloon

The foxes have names for Winter winds (Ransheen), March winds (Scresheen), Spring breezes (Switter), Summer winds (Frashoon), and Autumn winds (Melloon).

Answer: Gumans

O-ha stays with Gar the badger after her mate is killed and her earth filled in. O-ha and Gar enjoy long conversations.

Answer: Breaker

Breaker, the lead hound of the hunt, dreams of the fox-bones he will snap.

Answer: Camio

Camio refuses to change his name to A-camio when he becomes O-ha's mate.

Answer: Gar

O-ha slept in a chamber up on the second level, which had dry bedding on the floor for her to sleep on.

Answer: Ridgeback

Sabre dies close to the end of this book while he is chasing after O-ha, trying to kill her.

Answer: O-tasso

O-tasso thinks Camio is strange because he doesn't know where he came from, and his name is Camio instead of A-camio.

Answer: Lying on the tracks while a train goes over you

Camio thinks A-lobo must be mad when he tells him about it, until Camio tries it himself.

Answer: The place where foxes go when they die

O-ha goes to 'The Perfect Here' when she dies (at the end of the book) and is reunited with A-ho.

Answer: A-O

A-O formed the rivers and ponds, etc.

Answer: Sent Camio to his death

O-ha, Camio and A-lon are talking about Sabre. O-ha says "And I'm sorry there's not a fox around with enough courage to put an end to him". Camio leaves after that, and A-lon thinks that he has gone to confront Sabre, therefore telling O-ha that she has just sent Camio to his death.

Answer: Reynard

O-ha and Camio let Breaker stay with them when they are in the marshes. Breaker is too weak to hurt them. He later repays the favour when Sabre is chasing O-ha.

Answer: A-sac

O-ha had four cubs, one of them died. The others were called A-sac, O-mitz, and A-cam.

Answer: Because she sees everything as a threat to her unborn cubs

O-ha is feeling very protective of her unborn cubs, and won't even let her mate into the earth.

Answer: A dog

Camio tells O-ha that he thinks the 'dog-shaped cloud' was put there by A-sac's mind, but O-ha thinks that the idea is silly.

Answer: O-toltol

A-sac travels a long way to find O-toltol, hoping to become her apprentice. He later discovers that she is evil.

Answer: The zoo

Camio notices that the other animals in the zoo are starting to go mad, and he knows that he has to escape. He manages to get out of his cage when the door is not fastened securely.

Answer: Mitz

Mitz thinks that it's so old fashioned to have an O or an A in front of a name, and announces to O-ha that she is dropping the O in her name.

Answer: In a mound

A-sac travels to her mound, and ends up killing her after he finds out that she kills other foxes.

Answer: His tail

A-cam and Mitz don't believe that there is such a dog as Sabre, so they go to the manor house and A-cam ends up getting his tail bitten off by Sabre.

Answer: Betsy

The man is kind to Mitz, although he puts a tracking collar on her, and, soon after, releases her.

Answer: O-sollo

A-cam rescues O-sollo and O-fall from a hut where humans keep foxes. After they escape, O-sollo becomes A-cam's mate.

Answer: A-salla

It is traditional for the dog fox to take his name from the vixen so that it reflects it.

Answer: He kills himself

A-konkon committed ranz-san (ritual suicide) in the main square in front of many people, who then thought he had rabies.