Lanesha
Mama ya-ya
Vocabulary
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her age
What is 12?
100
her age
What is 82
100
highly destructive or damaging.
What is devastating?
100
the place ninth ward is located
What is Louisiana?
200
her caretaker
Who is Mama ya-ya?
200
she believes they can tell you the future
What are "signs"?
200
an amount of something
What is quantity?
200
the parts leading to the climax
What is the rising action?
200
the category hurricane Katrina was
What is a category three hurricane?
300
her dream job
What is an engineer?
300
the main problem with Mama Ya-ya
What is her health?
300
a synonym for incomprehensible
What is unfathomable?
300
when and where the story takes place
What is the setting?
300
the place with the most deaths caused by hurricane Katrina
What is New Orleans?
400
a woman who died in childbirth
Who is her mom?
400
her old job
What is a midwife?
400
anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future
What is an omen?
400
the introduction
What is the exposition?
400
the hurricane at it's strongest point
What is a category five hurricane?
500
the things she can see
What are ghosts?
500
a talent she posseses
What is telling the future?
500
a space entirely devoid of matter.
What is vacuum?
500
a character that changes in the book
What is a dynamic character?
500
the amount of damage it caused
What is 108 billion dollars?
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