Hard to Handle
Character Traits and Trends
Caroline, Caroline, Caroline
Overly Emotional
Can You Guess It?
100
The cause of Trudy's death
What is a massive stroke?
100
Louise's real first name
What is Sara?
100
Who Caroline yells "SHUT UP" at
Who is her grandmother?
100
Captain's house after the storm has cleared
What is destroyed?
100
Who Louise crabs with every day after school
Who is Call?
200
This person leaves for the war after hearing about the attack on Pearl Harbor
Who is Mr. Rice?
200
Who Louise is named after
What is her grandmother?
200
Caroline's main talent
What is singing/ her voice?
200
How Louise's grandmother feels about the water
What is hates it?
200
The name of the island Louise lives on
What is Rass Island?
300
The subject Captain taught Louise when she was home-schooled
What is math?
300
Louise goes here during the storm
What is Captain's house?
300
Louise hides this from Caroline
What is lotion/ manicure set?
300

Why Louise's grandmother acts out at times

Senile / experiencing mental decline due to old age.

300
The bay where Rass Island is located
What is Chesapeake Bay?
400
What the Hurricane of '42 did that Louise had failed to accomplish
What is kill Auntie Braxton's cats?
400
How Louise's grandmother thinks Auntie Braxton dies
What is poison?
400
Caroline refuses to do this when she is first born
What is breathe?
400
How the women on Rass are supposed to feel about the water
What is hate it?
400
Where Susan offers to send Louise to boarding school
What is Crisfield?
500
What Louise says she walks between as she walks down the streets of Rass
What is graves?
500
The four characters who pass away by the end of the novel
Who are Trudy, Captain, Louise's grandmother, and Truitt
500
The age difference between Louise and Caroline
What is two minutes?
500
What Louise says her grandmother's life has consisted of
What is waiting?
500
Where Louise's clinic is located in the village of Truitt
What is her home?
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