Vocab #1
Which vocab word means "a cup or goblet"?
chalice
Which vocab word means "to bounce off a surface"?
ricochet
Why did Mrs. Weaver and her family go on a picnic?
So Lizbet could come out of her room
So Lizbet could another group of fugitive slaves
What was the name of Lizbet's husband?
Matthew Luke Charles
What did Lizbet tell James would get rid of freckles?
cow manure
harebrained
Which vocab word means "to give a new name to"?
rechristen
What job did James realize he could be when he grows up?
architect
2 cows
How did the husband of Lizbet Charles die?
Which vocab word means "something with a bad smell or taste"?
acrid
Which vocab word means "in a depressed mood"?
sullen
What was Dana thinking about while she was waiting out the tornado?
What it would have been like for the Weavers and Lizbet during a tornado
Why did Millicent record stories of fugitive slaves?
So she could one day share them with Caleb
Why was Solomon allowed to take the Weaver's horse when Marshall Fain took him away?
So he didn't have to walk the whole trip
Which vocab means "to express with motions and without words"?
pantomimed
Which vocab word means "lacking quality or quantity"?
meager
What was one main issues that the slave owner's wife had with Lizbet's husband?
He was the son of her husband and a slave woman
What was James thinking about after Bethany's father shot the sick bull?
If he had the courage to shoot it
Why did Solomon not fightback when Marshall Fain came to arrest him?
He had lived too long around the Quakers
Caleb and Dr. Olney told him not to
incorrigible
Which word means "having a liver condition causing yellow skin or eyes" or "having a yellowish color"?
jaundiced
What James' dad and the other men mean when they said Stephen Douglas was "stirring up a nest of vipers?
He was causing problems/issues/troubles for the people in Kansas and Nebraska
He was making a tough situation worse
He was causing more problems than he was helping
When on the auction block, several Free Soldiers on horseback came started a fight and gave him a riderless horse to ride off on
When Jeep says that he thinks Lizbet was killed by "this Caleb guy", Dana replies that it would be like "Martin Luther King aiming a gun at a guy". What does Jeep mean by his reply of "I don't think I'd have been a Martin Luther King" if he had lived at that time?
He would not have been nonviolent