Liza Hempstock
What a character!
Deep Thoughts
Just the facts Jack
Literary Devices
100

Why was Liza killed by her village?

They believed she was a witch.

100

What is Mr. Pennyworth's role?

He is one of Bod's tutors who tries to teach him supernatural abilities like Fading.

100

Why did Bod write "we don't forget" on Liza's stone?

Because he understood how important it was to her.

100

What item did Bod take from the master's treasure in the mound?

The brooch

100

Formal, dignified language used in literature is called __ langauge.

elevated 

200

How did Liza help Bod escape from the locked room?

She cast a spell to help him Fade.

200

Who is Abanazer Bolger?

The owner of the antiques shop.

200

Bod says, "So the people buried on the other side of the fence are bad people?" Silas says, "Not at all." How does Silas describe a bad person?

As someone who is "particularly evil."

200

What did Abanazer Bolger think might be more valuable than the brooch?

Bod

200

When an author uses an object, person, or event that represents and idea or a set of ideas in writing it is called __.

symbolism

300

How did Liza get revenge?

She cursed the villagers and the plague arrived in their village.

300

Liza healed Bod and helped him escape. What do these actions tell you about her character?

That she can be kind.

300

How does Silas explain suicide?

He says that people find their lives in one plane so "unsupportable" that they want to move to the next plane faster.

300

What does 'unconsecrated' mean?

Not sacred; not blessed.

300

A comparison that does not use the words like or as is a __.

metaphor

400

How did the villagers test Liza to determine her guilt?

They drowned her and burned her.

400

What is the main character flaw of Abanazer Bolger?

Greed

400

What does Silas mean when he says, "Wherever you go, you take yourself with you?"

That you cannot run away from yourself. Changing your location does not change who you are.

400

What skill did Bod have difficulty learning?

Fading

400

What is being compared in this metaphor: A flash of pain woke him, sharp as ice, the color of slow thunder, down in the weeds that summer's night.

Pain is compared to ice and thunder.

500

What three things did the villagers accuse Liza of doing?

Making milk go sour, a horse go lame, and a young man fall in love with her.

500

Fill in the blank- In the twilight of the graveyard there was a silent implosion, a flutter of velvet darkness, and __ was gone.

Silas

500

What is Silas' response when Bod asks if suicide makes the dead any happier?

He tells him that changing your location doesn't change how happy you are. 

500

How did Bod hurt his leg?

By falling after a branch broke when he was climbing an apple tree to get an apple.

500

What does the red apple symbolize in this chapter?

The temptation for forbidden knowledge.

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