Vehicles
Delphine, Calinda, and Cass
The Place
Mama, Tilly, and Noah
The War
100

The engine of the train…

What is a locomotive?

100
The relationship between Delphine and Calinda...

What are sisters?

100

A toilet located in a small shed outside a house or building; an outhouse...

What is a privy?

100

The family business (both Bill and Mr. Hutchings)…

What is a doctor?

100

President Lincoln signed an act that  or means of sealed off/close off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.  

What is a blockade?

200

The vehicle taken on the summer trip...

What is the Model T Ford?

200

Calinda and Cass were alike because they both shared this talent...

What is a prophet/conjurers?

What is seeing the future?

200

An embankment built to prevent flooding from overflowing waters...



What is a levee?

200

Most mothers would not, and could not, stand to lose their children.  However, Mama had one she could spare.

Who is Tilly?

200

The age at which someone could join the war legally...

What is eighteen years old?

300

Live entertainment during the Civil War era...

What is a showboat?

300

The "starch" that Delphine put in someone's spine.  

What is confidence?

300

The River Between Us is a story about the Civil War and takes place in a town called __________.

What is Grand Tower?

300

The age of Noah when he went to fight in the Civil War...

What is 15 years old?

300

The loyal Americans to the North were called...

Who are/were Yankees?

400

Traveling in the Model T Ford, the family could sit their drinks or on the side of the vehicle.  What was this part of the Model T Ford?

What is a running board?

400

The cause of Cass's demise... 

What is diphtheria?

400

A railroad or train terminal/station where trains load or unload passengers or goods.; train terminal...

What is a depot?

400

Where Mama kept her best clothes, perhaps for burial...

What is the death drawer?

400

The Secesh...

Who are southerners/Confederates?  

500

Not a vehicle, but these are piers or docks where ships load and unload merchandise...


What are wharves?

500

Delphine was accused of being something she was not...

What is a spy?

500

A long, deep track made by the repeated passage of the wheels of vehicles...

What is a rut?

500

The parents of Bill...

Who are Dr. Hutchings and Tilly?

500

The colors of both Civil War regiments (North and South)…

What are blue and gray?

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