Vocabulary
Setting
Characters
Plot
Miscellaneous
100
To move down to a lower level.
What is descend?
100
At the beginning of the story, Alec was aboard this ship.
What is the Drake?
100
The name of the captain of the Drake.
Who is Captain Watson?
100
Alec and his uncle were working as these in India.
What are missionaries?
100
The name of Napoleon's owner.
Who is Tony?
200
A city in India.
What is Bombay?
200
Alec's home state.
What is New York?
200
The horse who lives beside the Black.
Who is Napoleon?
200
Uncle Ralph gave this gift to Alec on the trip.
What is a knife?
200
The names of the two horses the Black races.
Who is Cyclone and Sun Raider?
300
To become less.
What is diminish?
300
The place where Alec keeps the Black.
What is Henry Dailey's barn?
300
The name of the man who owns the barn where the Black stays; Alec's trainer.
Who is Henry Dailey?
300
The Black killed this to save Alec.
What is a poisonous snake?
300
The place where Pat had once raised horses.
What is Ireland?
400
To climb, usually on all fours, with difficulty.
What is clambered?
400
The place Pat's ship was headed; the place where Pat contacted Alec's parents.
What is Rio de Janeiro (South America)?
400
The reporter who invests time into Alec's story.
What is Joe Russo?
400
What Alec lacked to enter the Black into a true horse race.
What are registration/documentation papers?
400
The item the dark-skinnned man tried to steal from Alec.
What is a life-jacket?
500
Repetitious and boring.
What is monotonous?
500
The place where Alec practiced racing the Black.
What is Belmont?
500
The name of the columnist who gets Cyclone and Sun Raider to race the Black.
Who is Jim Neville?
500
The reason Alec was rescued.
What is a fire in Alec's shelter that spread?
500
The place where Alec raced the Black against Cyclone and Sun Raider.
What is Chicago?
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