Vocabulary
What does 'nicked' mean in the context of the chapter?
Stole
Name the bullies.
Nick Farthing and Maureen Quilling
True or False - Bod broke windows in Mo's neighborhood.
False
What is an idiom?
An expression that does mean what the words say.
True or False
Silas forbade Bod from every leaving the graveyard again.
False: He told him that they could find places for him to go with him and Miss Lepescu to be among the living.
What is blackmailing?
Make someone give you something or do something you want in exchange for them not revealing something about you.
Who is Mo's Uncle and what is his job?
Uncle Tam and he is a police officer.
Why does Bod argue with Thackery Porringer?
What is Silas' face compared to in this metaphor?
At the best of times his [Silas’s] face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in an alphabet unimagined.
a book
What activities does Bod discuss doing with Silas and Miss Lepescue at the end of the chapter?
Going to the library, the theater, and football games.
Complete this analogy.
BOOK is to LIBRARY as ____________________ is to SCIENCE LAB
Any lab equipment is correct
beaker
test tube
bunser burner
etc
Who says, "...they are are,for the most part done with world. You are not. You're alive Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.
Silas
Why does Bod get involved with other kids at school?
He doesn't like seeing the younger kids getting bullied.
What are the idioms in these sentences?
“I think I’ve got Fear down, but how do I take it up all the way to Terror?
down
up all the way
How does Bod go unnoticed at school?
He is a model student, who is quiet and spends his free time in the library or back of the classroom reading.
A document issued by the court for the arrest of a person is a ____.
warrant
Who says, "I am precisely what I am, and nothing more. ... My kind are, or we are not."
Silas
Why did Bod lure Mo and Nick to the graveyard?
To tell them they need to stop hurting people and behaving like other people don't matter.
What is an allusion?
A reference designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly.
In what ways does Bod behve differently from the other kids at school?
He handwrites his work in beautiful script, he doesn't have phone or computer, he doesn't know odd things, and he add unknown things to history that are not in books.
Define imperturbable.
unable to be upset or excite, calm
What two things did Liza convince Bod o so that he would not to run away?
That the danger outside of the graveyard is real and that the graveyard folk want him to stay alive so that he can have a full, normal life someday.
How did Silas rescue Bod from the police.
By getting hit by the car, playing dead, and flying away with him.
What does the allusion to Robinson Crusoe have to do with the way Bod lives?
RC is a man alone on an island trying to survie and Bod is the only living person in the graveyard.
What question does Bod turn on Silas that convinces Silas to let him go to school?
"If I go outside in the world, the question isn't 'who will keep me safe from him? It's who will keep him safe from me?"