They discovered a half drowned Greek sailor on the beach in the middle of the night and they were tired.
What happened to make Gramp and Taffy oversleep and miss church?
100
gibberish
What is meaningless or unintelligible talk?
100
Frustration
What is the overall mood on page 108?
200
What is the irregular coastline has cause many ships to wreck and sink there?
Why is the water off Cape Hatteras called the Graveyard of the Atlantic?
200
What is they were lost at sea?
What happened to Taffy's parents?
200
Taffy can't ride on the back road by the Snyder house.
What does Gramp forbid Taffy to do?
200
Conscience
What is your inner sense of right and wrong?
200
Personification
On page 22, the author writes, " the northeaster grasped and tugged at them, nearly upending them into the rough, deep sand ruts." This is an example of what literary technique?
300
What is the weather can be stormy one moment and beautiful the next?
Gramps describes the weather in Buxton as, "Stormalong one day and a paradoise the next," what does this mean?
300
What is she pulls the dog out of the sea?
How does Taffy rescue Brandy?
300
By using a trip wire to cause Sailor to stumble.
How do the Snyder's capture Taffy?
300
cantankerous
What is difficult or irritating to deal with; having a habitually bad temper?
300
World War II
The book took place during which war?
400
What is she loves and respects the ocean, but is not afraid of it?
How does Taffy feel about the sea?
400
Who is Taffy's teacher?
Who is Miss White?
400
What is he knows that enemy agents are on land and at sea working together and more harm might come to the island?
Why is Big Jens more scared than ever in Chapter 7?
400
rampant
What is widespread or unrestrained?
400
The dog is the color of a brandywine camphor bottle.
Why does Taffy name her dog Brandy?
500
What words or phrases does the author use to describe the setting? You may use your book.
Answers will vary.
500
What is he is in charge of the DF station on Cape Hatteras.
Who is Big Jens?
500
She changes the subject so she doesn't call anymore attention to the fact that her father's ship may have been hit by the bombs.
Why does Taffy change the subject after her friend Lorrie says her father is on a destroyer.
500
guttural
What is a harsh sound coming from the throat or back of the mouth?
500
One of her students and her husbandThe author, Nell Wise Wechter, based several of the characters on people she knew. In the story Taffy and Big Jens are based on which two people?