The money was just gravy for this endeavor (money making scheme).
What is Stealth Economics and the dares?
100
This made Antsy think he would never eat meat again.
What is seeing Gunther's eczema fall onto the meat at Waldbaum's?
100
repeating beginning sounds
What is alliteration?
100
Pisher Plastic Products, please!
What is alliteration?
200
Crawley's "trauma therapy."
What is the helicopter ride over New York City?
200
True or false: The Schwa and Antsy do the dares just for attention.
What is false? Antsy says "the money was just gravy."
200
Antsy's descriptions of New York are for this character, surprisingly.
What is Crawley?
200
A figure of speech not meant to be taken literally
What is an idiom?
200
"I'm sure they would have blown a gasket if they knew what I was supposed to do" (167)
What is an idiom?
300
Antsy's mom goes to this kind of cooking school.
What is French?
300
Antsy thinks Crawley did this for spite; really, Crawley did it because he liked the cooking and appreciated Antsy teaching him how to live.
What is get Antsy's dad fired?
300
Schwa paid this amount for the billboard.
What is "it cost more than just my college fund" (page 190).
300
static characters
What is a character who doesn't change?
300
One example of static characters
What is Lexie?
(Howie and Ira could be, but they end up working for Crawley, which makes us think they may have changed)
400
The name of the restaurant that Crawley and Antsy's mom and dad open.
What is Paris, capische?
400
The reasons that Antsy and Schwa continue to walk Crawley's dogs.
What is they gave their word; Antsy wanted to prove Crawley wrong. NOT that Crawley would have their parents fired (that is a small part and not why they keep doing it after a sufficient amount of time). It also makes them known in the neighborhood.
400
This is where we see Crawley show fear.
What is the hospital?
400
round characters
What is a character who is complex and seems real?
400
Antsy is this kind of character.
What is round and dynamic?
500
Rumors about Schwa that were sorta true.
What is the 50 PO boxes (Schwa's mom's letters from the states) and the butcher at the supermarket (she ran off with him, and it was at Waldbaum's).
500
The reason that Schwa wants to be noticed.
What is he doesn't want to end up like his mother; he is afraid no one will notice if he disappears?
500
This is Schwa's trauma therapy.
What is going to see the Night Butcher (Gunther) to learn what happened to his mother?
500
A sudden insight into life; an "ah ha!" moment.
What is an epiphany?
500
Antsy's epiphany.
What is sometimes being unnoticed means you are trusted to do the right thing; he doesn't need to be noticed.