Characters
Events
Places/Events
Terms
Terms 2
100
The youngest Walls' child
Maureen
100
What does the foundation Jeannette digs for the Glass Castle get filled with?
Trash
100
What place do the kids consider their real home?
Grandma Smith's house in Phoenix
100
Which term means stability, comfortability, and the known?
Order
100
Which terms means potential, unknown, and possibility?
Chaos
200
This character has to sleep with a raft over his bed because of the leaky roof.
Brian
200
How does Rex fix the termite holes in the Phoenix house?
He nails empty beer cans over them
200
Where do Erma and Uncle Stanley live?
Welch
200
What is it called when the Walls decide to quickly leave a place, often in the middle of the night?
The Skedaddle
200
What are patterns that repeat across stories throughout time?
Archetypes
300
Which of the kids FIRST breaks the unspeakable rule of always pretending that life is adventurous and good?
Jeannette
300
What causes Jeannette to leave Welch early, before finishing high school?
Rex hits her with his belt because she refuses to apologize to her mother.
300
What place does Demon appear?
Battle Mountain
300
What invention does Rex create to supposedly find gold in the desert?
The Prospector
300
What kind of Archetype is Ursula?
The Devouring Mother
400
Why does Jeannette agree to be friends with Billy Deel?
He gives her his mother's ring
400
Why does Rex start drinking again after promising Jeannette he would stop?
Their car breaks down on the way to the Grand Canyon. The woman who picks them up calls them poor and offers them sandwiches and Coke.
400
What are Maureen's first words as an infant?
"Where Dad?"
400
What archetype is the subject of this painting staring at?
The Threshold
400
Batman: "I will never be afraid again" is which part of the Anatomy of a Wound?
The Vow
500
Why does Jeannette like Grandma Smith?
She is the symbol of order. Combs her hair, teaches her manners, makes her wash up before dinner
500
What does Brian realize at the end of the book during the Thanksgiving Scene?
It's NOT hard to put food on the table if you really tried.
500
Name a Billy Bixbee moment from anywhere in the Glass Castle
Brian - Rex
Jeannette - Rose
Jeannette - Rex
Lori - Rex
500
Who is the only REAL person that Norman Bowker talks to in the story, "Speaking of Courage"?
The fast food worker at the A&W
500
What two opposing forces are in the Epigraph that begins The Glass Castle?
Dark and light or way and place