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What is a Narrator?
A person who tells a story.
What is the Genre of this Story?
The Genre of "Rocks in His Head" is a Biography.
What is a Biography?
The story of a real person's life written by another person.
What is a hobby?
Something that we do because we enjoy or like it.
What did the family do with the rocks when they moved from the store?
They packed them up in boxes and moved them to the attic in the new house.
What did the narrator's father collect?
He collected rocks.
What kind of business did he decide to open when he grew up?
He decided to open a gas Station.
What game did they like to play in the store?
Chess
What did he build in the back of the store?
He built shelves for his rocks.
Where did the narrator's father like to visit on rainy days?
The Science Museum because they had a whole room full of glass cases containing many rocks.
What was the name of the Filling Station(gas station)?
The name was the Antler Filling Station.
What is a collection?
A group of things that are alike.
What were the shelves used for?
He place the rocks and minerals on the shelves.
What did people say about him?
He has rocks in his head.
How many rocks did he find at the museum that were better than his.
He said 10 maybe 11.
What did he put with each rock?
He carefully labeled each rock to show what kind it was and where it was from.
What happened that made the narrator think that bad times were coming?
The Stock market fell.
Why did he buy spare parts for the Model T?
He thought that anyone who had spare parts and could repair it would do good business.
Where did the narrator's father's rocks come from?
They came from all over the world.
What kind of job does he get at the museum?
He has the job of the night janitor at the museum.
Who helped him build the filling station?
His grandfather.
What kind of car could many people afford?
The Model T by Henry Ford.
Why couldn't Mrs. Johnson hire him as a Mineralogist?
He did not have a collage education .
What job does he finally get at the museum after he is seen correcting a label for a rock?
Curator of Mineralogy
What does it mean when they say he has "Rocks in his head"?
It means that he loves rocks so much that that is all he thinks about.