The Boys in the Boat
Blood on the River
House of the Scorpion
Soar
Chasing Secrets
100
What single event most greatly shaped Joe's childhood?
The death of his mother
100
Why was Samuel captured and taken to the magistrate?
He stole a locket that belonged to his mother
100
What injury did Matt receive when he smashed out a window and leaped outside to see the other children?
A slice on his foot
100
What two things from school "follow" Jeremiah?
Three paragraph essay and the recorder
100
Where and when does the story begin?
San Francisco


January 1, 1900

200
According to chapter 4, Harry taught his son Joe what lesson?
There is a solution to every problem
200
After Samuel and Richard fought, Captain Smith ordered Samuel to do what?
Stand on one foot
200
Where is the story set?
In the country of Opium, a strip of land between Mexico and the U.S.
200
What organ did Jeremiah want to keep in a jar?
Heart
200
What does Lizzie say "To be a man of stature" means?
He has money
300
To help him reach his potential and gain a place in the boat, George Pocock nudged Joe to unlearn something from his childhood. What was it?
Total self-reliance, extreme independence and isolationism
300
How did James die?
He was killed during an Indian raid
300
What happens at El Patron's annual birthday party?
Matt demands a kiss from Maria
300
Who is the star player for the Hillcrest Hornets?
Hargie
300
What happened to Lizzie's mother?
She died of cancer 5 years ago
400
What did Henry Burke make the Washington boys do, that hadn't been required for any other Olympic team before?
Pay their own travel expenses to and from Berlin
400
What event angered Chief Powhatan so much that he stopped trading with Captain Smith?
The colonist forcing a crown on his head
400
Who first plants the idea in Matt's mind that he can choose between good and evil?
Tam Lin
400
What does Jeremiah not know, but needs to know, and it bothers him?
His birthday
400
What does Lizzie like to write?
Poems
500
What was upstairs in the second story of the Shell House?
George Pocock's shell-building workshop
500
Why was Samuel arrested and put in the brig (jail)?
Stealing Virginia and taking her to Point Comfort
500
What did Matt find behind the music room?
A secret passage
500
Jeremiah and Yaff love to watch what?
Eagle Cam
500
What does Billy decide to teach Lizzie?
To defend herself
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