Characters
Plot
Setting
Mrs. Dowdel
Vocabulary
100
Name Bob Barnhart's 2 sisters.
Who is Phyllis and Ruth Ann
100
The three Barnhart children walked by here on the evening before school started.
What is the Dairy Queen?
100
The year the story is set.
What is 1958?
100
The reason Newt Fluke was in Mrs. Dowdel's upstairs bedroom on Halloween night.
What is to find her hidden money from the road-side produce stand?
100
An institution for disciplining juvenile lawbreakers.
What is a reformatory?
200
The lady who was "all over Mrs. Dowdel like a rubber girdle in a heatwave"
Who is Mrs. Wilcox
200
Ruth Ann was missing this after their walk at the beginning of the book.
What is Grachel, her doll?
200
One detail from the story that helps identify the time period.
What is Elvis was alive? Still had privy's? Teacher judgement
200
The funding source for the new church windows. Tell who and where the money came from.
What is Mrs. Dowdel and the money came from her road-side stand during the Kickapoo Princess Funeral?
200
Two items of the same kind.
What is a brace?
300
Mrs. Dowdel's great-grandson who she bought the tree to "light the way for his coming"
Who is Brad Dowdel?
300
This item grabbed Barbara Jean Jeeter the night she attempted to steal a squash from Mrs. Dowdel's melon patch.
What is a rabbit trap?
300
City the Barnhart family lived before moving to a small town in Illinois.
What is Terre Haute?
300
The surprise that caused Mrs. Dowdel to tell Bob, "Run for your life!"
What is seeing the Dempsey's house while cutting down Christmas trees and greenery for wreaths?
300
Forced into a tight space.
What is shoehorned?
400
The big galoot that tied up Bob in Mrs. Dowdel's privy -- has one blue eye and one green eye.
Who is Roscoe Burdick?
400
The Federal Law Roscoe Burdick broke.
What is not entering the Army draft when he turned 18 years old?
400
According to ancient rumors, Mrs. Dowdel's property sits on top of this.
What is ancient Kickapoo buriel grounds?
400
The Christmas gift Ruth Ann decided to give Mrs. Dowdel.
What is telling her Santa brought her the doll buggy?
400
To smile or contort the face in a manner that shows scorn.
What is sneer?
500
The 6th grade student Mrs. Dowdel caught in her upstairs bedroom on Halloween night.
Who is Newt Fluke?
500
The placy Phyllis parents thought she was going on Homecoming night.
What is the sock hop dance?
500
The place in the Barnhart house where one could find "Day-Glo Pink"
What is Phyllis and Ruth Ann's bedroom?
500
Mrs. Dowdel advised, "You can't get a church up and goin' with out a ___________ first."
What is a funeral?
500
Reasoned with; protested; argued.
What is expostulated?
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