Major Characters
Setting
Plot
Literary Terms
Vocabulary Words
100
This is the 12-year-old who saved Esther.
Who is Leanora Sutter?
100
This is the state where this novel takes place.
What is Vermont?
100
This is the group that moved into town and caused trouble.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
100
Examples of this in the novel are the impacts of death, the power of knowledge, and the divisiveness of violence.
What is a theme?
100
Reynard Alexander claims that his newspaper is this.
What is neutral?
200
This is the preacher best known for using the term, "neighbor."
Who is Johnny Reeves?
200
This is the year in which the novel took place.
What is 1924?
200
This is the event that caused Merlin to run out of town.
What is Merlin not putting the poison in the Sutters' well?
200
"the massive stone hall,/the solid stone church,/the imposing brick schoolhouse" (Hesse 154).
What is imagery?
200
Johnny Reeves believes the behavior of the flappers is this.
What is inordinate?
300
This character was accused of shooting Ira Hirsh.
Who is Merlin Van Tornhout?
300
This is where Bobby Franks was kidnapped and killed.
What is Chicago?
300
This is the event that reveals Esther's hidden knowledge about the person who shot her father.
What is Esther going into Johnny Reeves's church?
300
"she ran like a deer" (Hesse 76).
What is a simile?
300
Sara Chickering feels this way when considering losing Esther.
What is distraught?
400
This is the character who knows who actually shot Ira Hirsh.
Who is Esther Hirsh?
400
This is where Iris Weaver sees Merlin.
What is Plattsburg, NY?
400
This event causes Johnny Reeves to dramatically change towards the end of the novel.
What is the KKK branding his back?
400
This is the detailed descriptions of characters that reveals their personality traits.
What is characterization?
400
Leanora is this to hatred simply because of her race.
What is susceptible?
500
This is the character who made Leanora feel like he did not care about her race.
Who is Mr. Field?
500
This is the river where Johnny Reeves ended his life.
What is the Connecticut River?
500
This is the event that proves Mr. Field can actually see.
What is Mr. Field chasing the KKK off of the courthouse lawn?
500
"i am being buried, too,/in all this whiteness" (Hesse 27).
What is a metaphor?
500
Mr. Field looks old and this even though his mind is not in bad condition.
What is decrepit?
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