Vocabulary
Setting
Characters
Events
Grab Bag
100

Another name for an outhouse/where there is a toilet.

What is a privy

100

The city Joey and Mary Alice are from.

What is Chicago
100

The narrator of the story

Who is Joey

100

What streaked out of the coffin

The tomcat

100

This is what Joey and Mary Alice found in the picnic basket on the train ride home

What is a kitten

200

The forbidding by law of the sale and manufacture of alcohol.

What is Prohibition

200

Place where people gathered to talk and exchange gossip/located uptown

Coffee Pot Cafe

200

Her idol was Shirley Temple

Who is Mary Alice
200

Type of competition that Grandma entered

A baking competition

200

This was Grandma's worst enemy

Who is Effie Wilcox

300

A tumbledown shed full of stuff.

What is a cobhouse

300

A tumble-down shed/where the Tomcat lived

What is the cobhouse

300

Owner of the rowboat

Who is O.B. Dickerson

300
What the Cowgill brothers came to steal from Grandma's house

What is Grandpa Dowdel's shotgun

300

This is what Grandma put in the milk jar

What is a mouse

400

A person who goes from place to place

What is a drifter

400

Where Grandma would pick up Joey and Mary Alice at when they would arrive at her town

What is the depot

400

The bankers wife

Who is Mrs. Weidenbach

400

This had swept the nation in 1931

What is the Great Depression

400

This is how old Joey was on his last summer visit with Grandma

What is 15

500

A room used for conversation/living room

What is a parlor

500

Where Joey saw the Terraplane 8 and feel in love

What is Veech's garage

500

Ran the garage

Who is Ray Veech

500

Joey had to send this to Grandma to let her know he would be passing through since she did not have a phone.

What is a telegram

500
This war broke out in 1941

What is World War II

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