Vocabulary
Dowdel
Whoppers
People
Bullies
100
What is a Privy?
Outhouse
100
What are the two children's name?
Joey and Mary Alice
100
What grade did Grandma say that 16-year old Ernie Cowgill was in?
Fourth Grade
100
When Gradma's mailbox blew up, whom she immediately blame?
The Cowgills
100
The next morning when Joey came into the kitchen, what did he find on the table?
The Shotgun
200
What is a whopper?
Big Lie
200
Who is the narrator of the book?
Joey
200
What caused the gauze to move over Shotgun's Casket?
The tomcat
200
How were the Cowgill boys punished for their misdeeds and by Whom?
Whipped and by their dad
200
Grandma told Ernie Cowgill that she wasn't going to be home that night. Why did she tell him that?
To lead him and his brothers to her house? Bonus Question: Where did Grandma tell them where they were going?
300
What is a Chicago Typewriter?
A Submachine Gun
300
How does Grandma feel about Effie Wilcox?
She is her enemy
300
What did Grandma say was in yesterday's milk?
a mouse
300
When Effie Wilcox came to grandma's door, what did she need?
To use the Privy
300
Where did Shotgun Cheatam really get his name?
He shot a cow on accident while hunting for quail. Bonus Question: What did grandma tell the reporter?
400
What is a sneer?
Smirk
400
What did Grandma do to scare the Cowgills when they broke into the kitchen?
She lit a Cherry Bomb and pointed the gun at them.
400
What did grandma tell the Cowgill boys about Joey?
That he was in a gang.
400
Grandma stages a fine visitation for Shotgun Cheatam. Who was she trying to fool?
The reporter
400
What does Grandma make in her Caldron outside?
Apple Butter
500
When someone lamented what did she/he do?
cried
500
What county does Grandma Dowdel live in?
Piatt County
500
Where did Grandma say Effie Wilcox was just released from?
Insane Asylum
500
Who was the first dead body the two kids ever saw?
Shotgun Cheatam
500
Who was the gangster that lived in Chicago?
Al Capone
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