People, Places, and Things
Landlady
The Boardinghouse
Billy
Vocabulary
100
Christopher Mulholland and Gregory W. Temple.
What are the names in the Landlady's guestbook?
100
This is the way Billy believes successful businessmen walk and act.
What is brisk?
100

This is the type of "hotel" Billy chooses to stay in.

What is a bed and breakfast?

100

Weaver.

What is Billy's last name?

100
These are the fronts of buildings.
What are facades?
200
The town Billy arrives in at the beginning of the story.
What is Bath?
200
This is the only thing the Landlady asks Billy to do before going to bed.
What is sign the guestbook?
200

The boardinghouse has this yellow flower in a vase.

What is a chysanthemum?

200

This is the city that Billy is from.

What is London?

200
Someone who is respectful or agreeable.
What is a congenial?
300

Billy Weaver stays at the Bed and Breakfast rather than this place.

What is The Bell and Dragon?

300
The Landlady's perfect guest is like this.
What is handsome?
300
These two common household pets at first comfort Billy, then point to the fate he will share with them.
What are the dachshund and parrot? (Dog and Bird)
300
This is the name of Billy's boss who sent him to Bath for work.

Who is Mr. Gleenslade?

300
A peculiar smell seemed to ______ from her person.
What is emanate?
400
The tea Billy drinks has this taste, which avid mystery readers will recognize as a characteristic smell and flavor of cyanide.
What is bitter almonds?
400
The Landlady is described as being like this common childhood toy because of the way she answers the door when Billy rings the bell.
What is a jack-in-the-box?
400

The price of one night in the boarding house (with breakfast, of course).

What is five and sixpence?

400

Billy desired to be "absolutely fantastically brisk all the time" like these people.

Who are the big shots at the head office? (Successful businessmen)

400
Ebenezer Scrooge of A Christmas Carol is an example of this kind of person.
What is rapacious?
500

This is the town that Gregory W. Temple was from.

What is Bristol.

500
These two WWII world leaders are described as being linked like the two men in the Landlady's guestbook. (Hint: One is a U.S. President, the other a British Prime Minister.)
Who are Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill? (FDR, Roosevelt, Churchill ok)
500

This is the name of the "sleeping" dog.

Who is Basil?

500

The ironic statement that Billy made after he unpacked and trotted back downstairs.

What is, "I'm a lucky fellow"?

500

Exciting ones senses or desires.

What is tantalizing?

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