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NO SPOILERSWhen American test pilot and Sioux Indian Major Joe Makatozi is shot down and taken prisoner by Soviet forces, he escapes from a holding facility deep in Siberia and must use every wilderness survival skill he possesses to cross thousands of miles of brutal Arctic terrain and reach Alaska before elite trackers can recapture him. Drawing on his Native American heritage, he fashions weapons from the land, outwits experienced pursuers at every turn, and refuses to give up no matter the cost, transforming a desperate flight for survival into a testament to human endurance and the warrior spirit.
Free Battle of the Books questions for Last of the Breed
SPOILERSEvery one of these has the same answer, and that is the point. In a real battle the question is read aloud with a dozen other books in play, and students have a few seconds to place it. Here is what a battle might ask about Last of the Breed. Use them as a quiz, a trivia round, or BOTB practice.
Where in the book they come from
- Early in the book
In what book does an escaped prisoner cling to a drift log to float downstream past a passing motorboat?
✓ Answer
Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amour
Crossing a river in his early flight from the camp, Joe Mack hides beneath the water clinging to a stub of branch as a small outboard motor passes within feet of him. The encounter is one of his closest early calls.
- First half
In what book does a beautiful Soviet investigator deliberately dress plainly because attractive women advance more slowly?
✓ Answer
Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amour
Kyra Lebedev once worked in Shepilov's office and has hitched her ambitions to Zamatev. Her sharp eye on a bale of furs is what spots the difference in handling that points to a skilled new trapper in the taiga.
- First half
In what book does a Yakut tracker pull two arrowheads from sifted ashes that investigators dismissed as ancient?
✓ Answer
Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amour
Alekhin stays three days at the crashed copter site after others leave. He finds two arrowheads of a kind never made in Siberia, proving the fugitive Indian shot down a Soviet helicopter with a primitive bow.
- Second half
In what book does a drifter snap a loafer's knee for grabbing a young woman's pack?
✓ Answer
Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amour
When a loafer in the Plastun Bay store tries to take Natalya's pack and threatens her, Yakov calmly kicks the side of his knee and breaks it. He then escorts her home and warns the others not to trouble her again.
- Second half
In what book does a fugitive rig a young aspen as a deadly whip across a narrow cliff trail?
✓ Answer
Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amour
Above his hideout, Joe Mack bends an aspen back like a bow and ties it to a trip string across the goat path. A pursuing man would release the spring and be lashed off the cliff into the canyon, while a low-bodied goat would pass under it unharmed.
- Near the end
In what book does a Sioux flyer push a balanced boulder down a slick granite slope at three hunters?
✓ Answer
Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amour
Spotting three armed trappers below him on a steep dome of granite, Joe Mack braces his back and legs against the mountainside to topple a rounded boulder. It thunders down and lands inches from where the hunters had been standing, sending them scrambling for the trees.
