Whereabouts
The State in which the story takes place.
What is Alabama?
Red Chief's real name.
What is Johnny?
The money the two men have at the beginning of the story.
What is about six hundred dollars?
The name of the first game Red Chief plays with Bill.
What is "playing Indian"?
"It looked like a good thing; but wait till I tell you."
What is foreshadowing?
The name of the town in which the kidnapping takes place.
What is Summit?
Bill's nickname.
What is Old Hank?
The money the two kidnappers demand for ransom initially.
What is two thousand dollars?
The dream Sam has on the first night with Red Chief.
What is kidnapped and chained to a tree by a ferocious pirate with red hair?
"as tight as a leech"
What is a simile?
The place where the hideout of the kidnappers is.
What is a cave?
Sam's nickname.
What is Snake-eye?
The extra sum of money Bill adds to the ransom when Red Chief hits him in the eye with a brick.
What is five hundred dollars?
The sentence Red Chief pronounces on Bill on the first morning.
What is scalped at daybreak?
"that two-legged skyrocket of a kid"
What is a metaphor?
The place where the ransom money is to be delivered.
What is a field?
Red Chief's father's full name.
What is Ebenezer Dorset?
The final amount of money the two kidnappers demand for ransom.
What is fifteen hundred dollars?
The items the two kidnappers promise Red Chief to make him finally go home.
What is a rifle and a pair of moccasins?
"and shook him until his freckles rattled"
What is hyperbole?
The name of the neighbouring village.
What is Poplar Grove?
Bill's favourite biblical character.
What is King Herod?
The amount of money the two kidnappers pay Ebenezer Dorset to get his son back.
What is two hundred fifty dollars?
How long the whole story lasts.
What is two days?
"Heaven help the wolves!"
What is irony?