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CHAPTER QUESTIONS
Chapter 2 1. What is a chickabiddy?
2. Find some examples of colloquial speech and expression. List the examples and what they mean in your journal. (Ex: hill of beans means I don’t care one way or the other)
3. List all the reasons for Sal accompanying her grandparents on their car trip?
Chapter 3 1. What is Sal’s opinion of her new home?
2. How does Sal fit into her new school?
3. How does bravery enter the story?
Chapter 4 1. What is distinctive about Margaret’s Mother?
2. How does the friendship between Phoebe and Sal develop? Why do they become friends?
Chapter 5 1. Who is the damsel in distress?
2. What do you think of Sal’s grandparents?
Chapter 9
1. What does the message delivered mean? (Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins)
Chapter 11
1. What is the second porch message? What does it mean?
Chapter 12
1. What is the author’s view on the terms Native American, Indian, and other politically correct labels?
Chapter 13 1. Mr. Birkway was described as “one of those energetic teachers who loved his subject half to death.” Have you had a teacher like that? How did that teacher make you feel?
2. PREDICTION: What do you predict to be the trouble caused by the journals?
Chapter 14
1. What does it mean to SEE, specifically in what Sal and Phoeby could each see about Phoebe’s Mother?
2. What is a tiny life? (see pg. 88)
Chapter 15
1. Describe, using adjectives, Gram and Gramps thus far.
Chapter 16
1. Why do the sounds that Sal hears change on page 101?
Chapter 17 1. What similarities to Sal’s mother’s last day in Kentucky do you see in this chapter? Compare & Contrast Sal’s mother to Phoebe’s mother.
2. What does it mean to have your own agenda? (see pg. 104-105 Compare this answer to your previous guess in chapter 11)
3. Explain the quote on page 105, “In the course of a lifetime, what does it matter?”
Chapter 18 1. Why do you think Sal’s mother says she had to get better on her own? What does that mean?
2. What does Sal’s father mean when he says they are “making this move to learn about bravery and courage.”
Chapter 19 1. What does “trying to catch fish in the air” mean? (see page 115)
Chapter 20 1. Prediction: What do you think has happened to Mrs. Winterbottom?
2. Why is Phoebe especially frightened when she returns home to an empty house and three envelopes addressed to Phoebe?
Chapter 21 1. What do you think is the purpose of Mr. Birkway’s draw your soul exercise? 2. Prediction: Why did the author include this chapter? Does it provide any clues for the rest of the book?
Chapter 22 1. Explain John Hiddle’s statement that you can’t cage a person; a person isn’t a bird. Connect this statement to events in the novel. Use specific evidence.
2. How does the Winterbottom family react to Mrs. Winterbottom being gone?
Chapter 24 1. What is the third message delivered & what does it mean? (pg. 154)
2. CRITICAL THINKING: How has the author organized the storytelling in this book? How has she used hints, clues, and foreshadowing?
Chapter 25 1. What character from the novel is Phoebe acting like in this chapter?
2. Phoebe states at the end of the chapter that her father never cries. Is she accurate? How are actions out-of-the-ordinary for characters significant?
Chapter 26 1. What insights does Sal have about herself as she tells about Phoebe’s weekend visit?
2. How would you interpret Sal’s dream at the end of the chapter.
Chapter 27 1. How might the mythological story of Pandora’s box be relevant to Sal and Phoebe?
2. What is the meaningful glance between Gram and Gramps at the end of the chapter?
Chapter 28 1. Why doesn’t Sal want to get out of the car to view Mt. Rushmore?
Chapter 29 1. Compare Phoebe and Sal thus far. Create a web for each of the two girls: list adjectives to describe their emotions. Then, make a column for Phoebe & a column for Sal. Under the column headings list events in their story. Underneath the column headings write down the similarities with the two stories.
Chapter 30 1. How do Sal and Phoebe try to preserve their memories of their mothers?
Chapter 31 1. Is Mr. Birkway justified in reading the journal entries aloud? What might be some benefit from reading the journals aloud to the class? 2. What do you suppose lunch or recess would be like after the Chapter 31 English class.
Chapter 32 1. What does Sal learn about Mr. Birkway in this chapter?
2. What is the point of Mr. Birway’s “vase” picture illustration?
Chapter 33 1. What is the story of Margaret Cadaver? What is the meaning of the reference to the birds of sadness?
2. Prediction: What is the girl’s plan? Why is Gram lying awake thinking about things?
Chapter 34 1. How can a day be “one of the best, and surely the worst” at the same time? (222)
Chapter 35 1. Have you ever been in a place that would make you feel as if you were “torn in two pieces,” as Sal feels in Montana Why did you feel that way?
2. Prediction: The next chapter is entitled The Visit.” What will the girls find out about the lunatic? Will Phoebe locate her mother?
3. On page 228, Sal says she’s “ready to take some action.” What conditions and situations make a person ready to take action
Chapter 36
1. What have the girls discovered? What assumptions do you make about Mrs. Winterbottom and Mike Bickle?
Chapter 37 1. What is the story of Ben’s mother?
2. Why does Ben’s mother remind Sal of her own mother?
Chapter 38 1. Why is Phoebe in such a black mood and disgusted with her mother?
2. Why doesn’t Phoebe blur out the news to her family?
3. Why do you think the author entitled this chapter “spit”?
Chapter 39 1. Why does Phoebe faint dead away on the carpet when she sees her mother?
2. How does the family react to Mrs. Winterbottom’s revelation? 3. Prediction: What is the deal with Mrs. Partridge and the white envelope on the Winterbottom steps?
Chapter 40 1. What is the explanation for the white envelopes and cryptic messages on the Winterbottom porch?
2. What are you feelings at the end of the chapter? What matters are getting resolved, and what issues are still open?
Chapter 41 1. What does Sal hear about when she stops at the second overlook?
2. Prediction: What does the last sentence of the chapter mean?
Chapter 42 1. Was Gramps justified in letting Sal drive his car?
2. Why does Sal make her way to the wrecked bus?
Chapter 43 1. How did Sal learn of her mother’s death?
2. Why did Sal want to go to Lewiston and follow her mother’s last trip?
Chapter 44 1. What is the author’s purpose in including this chapter in the book?
2. What does Sal decide bravery is?
3. What is your feeling at the end of the book?