People, Places, and Things
Landlady
Elements of Plot
Vocabulary
Misc.
100
Christopher Mulholland and Gregory W. Temple.
What are the names in the Landlady's guestbook?
100
This is the way Billy believes successful businessmen walk and act.
What is brisk?
100
This is the point in a story with the greatest suspense, a turning point.
What is the climax?
100
These are the fronts of buildings.
What are facades?
100

We tipped the man carrying our luggage.

Porter

200
The town Billy arrives in at the beginning of the story.
What is Bath?
200
This is the only thing the Landlady asks Billy to do before going to bed.
What is sign the guestbook?
200
When Billy arrives in Bath and begins searching for a place to stay, The Landlady is in this plot stage.
What is the exposition?
200
Someone who is respectful or agreeable.
What is a congenial?
200

The point at which the reader can predict what will happen to Billy is when the landlady says

that she stuffed her pets.

300
Billy Weaver stays at the Bed and Breakfast rather than this hotel.
What is The Bell and Dragon?
300
The Landlady's perfect guest is like this.
What is handsome?
300
When the Sneetches learn to live together whether they have stars on their bellies or not, Dr. Seuss's The Sneetches is in which stage of the plot?
What is the resolution?
300
A peculiar smell seemed to ______ from her person.
What is emanate?
300

What is most likely to have happened if Billy had had more time to remember what he knew about the two names in the guestbook at the bed and breakfast?


He would not have drunk the tea.

400
These two common household pets at first comfort Billy, then point to the fate he will share with them.
What are the dachshund and parrot? (Dog and Bird)
400
The Landlady is described as being like this common childhood toy because of the way she answers the door when Billy rings the bell.
What is a jack-in-the-box?
400
This stage of plot occurs in The Landlady between the times when Billy signs the guestbook and when he realizes the dog and bird are stuffed.
What is the falling action?
400
Ebenezer Scrooge of A Christmas Carol is an example of this kind of person.
What is rapacious?
400

Which of the following examples is not an example of foreshadowing?

a. "There were no shops on this wide street that he was walking along . . ."

b. "The air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice . . ."

c. "each word (of the sign) was like a large black eye staring at him through the glass . . ."

d. There wasn't a blemish on his (Mulholland's) body . . . His skin was just like a baby's.

"There were no shops on this wide street that he was walking along . . ."

500
The tea Billy drinks has this taste, which avid mystery readers will recognize as a characteristic smell and flavor of cyanide.
What is bitter almonds?
500
These two WWII world leaders are described as being linked like the two men in the Landlady's guestbook. (Hint: One is a U.S. President, the other a British Prime Minister.)
Who are Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill? (FDR, Roosevelt, Churchill ok)
500
When Billy decides to stay at the Bed and Breakfast the story is in this plot stage.
What is the rising action?
500
This word originates in Greek mythology with a king who was condemned to eternally stand in water he could never drink under a tree with fruit just out of his reach.
What is tantalizing?
500

Clues that hints at what will happen later in the story is called

Foreshadowing

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