People, Places, and Things
Landlady
Plot Structure
Hodge Podge
Vocabulary
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

Billy realizes that the animals are stuffed

What is the climax?

100

What seems inviting to Billy when he looks through the window of the old house?

What is he sees a dachshund (dog) lying in front of the fireplace.

100

A feeling or thought that something is possible, likely,or true.

What is suspicion?

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

What prevents Billy from going on to the Bell and Dragon pub?

What is "He is transfixed by the sign that says “Bed and Breakfast?"

200

Quick, lively, bracing, and refreshing.

What is briskness?

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

This part of the plot was never reached, keeps the audience wondering.

What is the resolution?

300

How does the landlady distract Billy when he has almost figured out who Christopher Mulholland is

What is by serving him tea

300
A peculiar smell seemed to ______ from her person.
What is emanate?
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 after Billy realizes the dog and bird are stuffed.

What is the falling action?

400

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

What is she stuffed her pets

400

These are the fronts of buildings.

What are facades?

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

Why does the author include the line, "There were no other hats or coats in the hall. There were no umbrellas, no walking sticks-nothing."?

What is there were no current guests at the bed and breakfast.

500

An irresistible urge to behave in a certain way

What is compulsion?

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