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1. What happened when Rob heard, “the crack of a gun?”
his dad shot the tiger
2. What did Rob do when he found out that the tiger had been shot?
He started screaming at his father. Then he attacked his father.
3. Rob was so hurt and angry that he finally 'opened his suitcase'. What does that mean?
He let all of his anger and his feelings out.
4. How did the words come out of Rob's 'suitcase'?
"coiled and explosive"
5. Rob says, "I wish it had been you that died! I hate you!" Who was he talking to?
his father
6. What did Rob's father tell him when he was crying about his mother?
"What we got, all we got, is each other. And we got to learn to make do with that."
7. What happened when Rob started to cry?
He couldn't stop.
8. Why did Willie May get Rob's father the the tiger was loose?
So he could save Rob.
9. What happened when Rob reached down and put his hand on the tiger's head?
He felt the tears rise up in him again.
10. Why did Sistine say the tiger needed to have a funeral?
because he was "a fallen warrior"
11. What did Willie May put on top of the tiger's grave to keep him company?
the bird that Rob had carved for her
12. What happened at the tiger's funeral that also happened at Rob's mother's funeral?
the sun came out
13. How did Rob feel inside at the end of chapter 29?
lighter
14. What did Rob's father do that night as he put the medicine on Rob's legs?
he sang the song about mining for gold
15. In chapter 30, what does Rob's father tell Rob that he must do?
tell Mr. Beauchamp that he is the one that let the tiger go
16. Rob's father also tells Rob that he has to ___________ on Monday.
go back to school
17. Rob's father told him that the reason he didn't talk about his wife, Rob's mother, was that _____________.
"I wouldn't never have believed that I could miss somebody the way I miss her."
18. Rob dreamed that the wooden bird ___________.
came to life and flew around
19. It rained almost every day throughout this book. What was the weather like at the end of chapter 30?
there wasn't a cloud in the sky
20. What was Rob doing in the very last sentence of the book?
he was considering his future