Setting
Where does the story take place?
What is the Biltmore Estate?
What friend does Serafina make at the Biltmore?
Who is Braeden Vanderbilt?
What is a catamount?
What is another name for a mountain lion?
The person that fixes the machinary at the Biltmore Estate.
Who is Pa?
What does Pa warn Serafina never to do?
What is never wander into the woods?
Where are Braeden and Serafina attacked?
What is near a carriage in the woods?
Why is Braeden's aunt so intent of him meeting Clara Brahms?
What is Braeden's aunt wants Braeden to date Clara because she is so talented?
Why is the cemetary famous for graves with no bodies?
The Chief Rat Catcher
Who is Serafina?
Why didn't Serafina want anyone to play the pipe organ?
What is because she was hiding beside it and it would be too loud for her?
Why Serafina and her father live in the basement of the Biltmore rather than in town with the other servants.
What is they live in the basement because her pa is afraid that someone will take her away for being different?
When we meet Mr. Thorne, what is he doing?
What is playing th violin and Mr. Bendel was questioning when he aquired the ability to play so well?
What two Russian words does Mr. Thorne say to Mr. Rostonov that are suspicious to Serafina? (need the Russian words)
What are Otets and Batya?
The Vanderbilt's nephew who's family died in a fire and what is the only reason he survived?
Who is Braeden Vanderbilt and the reason he survived is that his dog, Gideon, pulled him out of the house in time?
In what ways are Serafina's "differences" positive instead of negative?
What is she is able to be stealthy, she can see well at night, etc. Answers will vary.
Serafina has been told her entire life to stay hidden and not to venture up the stairs during the day. What factors contributed to her decision to ignore what she has been told and finally risk going up there? Provide at least two or three pieces of evidence from chapter 3 to support your answer.
What is Clara's disappearance, the man in the black cloak, to tell the people upstairs what had happened and what she had seen?
Braeden has another friend that has gone missing, who is he/she?
What does the forest represent to Pa? To Serafina?
What it represents to Pa is fear of losing his little girl, he sees it as the unknown and a dangerous place. Serafina sees it as a safe place and it is a curiosity and represents home.
The maid and butler that find the secret passage by the piano.
Who are Mr. Pratt and Miss Whitney?
Why did Serafina disappear before the rescuers could arrive at the carriage?
What is she didn't want to be discovered and then she and her father would get into trouble with the Vanderbilts.
Where does Serafina meet the mountain lion for the first time and how does she get away?
Where is the ghost town's graveyard after playing with her cubs? She fights her off and runs for her life and gets lost.
Where did Mr. Crankshod disappear to, that we know of, the night they were all ambushed in the forest?
What is he took off for the house to get help?
When the Man in the Black Cloak attacked them in the forest, who was he really after?
Who was Braeden?
The names of the three children from Biltmore that The Man in the Black Cloak has taken, so far, in order.
Who are Anastasia, Clara, and Nolan.
Give at least two strategies that Serafina used to find her way home.