Cal
This is Cal’s full name.
Who is Calvin Blackbird?
Cal’s father was a veteran of this war.
What is the World War I?
This is the safest place to hide goods on campus.
What is Possum's hidey-hole?
The story takes place during this major economic downturn.
What is the Great Depression?
The individual that first said "East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet."
Who is Pop?
Cal finds out he belongs to this Native American nation.
What is the Creek nation?
Pop chooses to live this kind of life, moving often without a home.
What is a hobo lifestyle?
This is what can happen when you make a mistake at the boarding school.
What is a demerit and the loss of special privileges?
Cal and his father meet other travelers in these temporary communities.
What are Hoovervilles?
The individual that described the time at Challagi by saying that "it just gets worse."
Who is Possum?
This is the real name of the individual that gives Jaybird his nickname.
Who is Charles Aird (Possum)?
Pop was incredibly talented with this skillset while he was a student at Challagi.
What are agricultural skills?
This is the assignment Cal had been hoping for since he arrived at the boarding school.
What are the stables?
This 1930s U.S. President was blamed for the Depression.
Who is President Herbert Hoover?
Who is Corporal Dart?
Cal often reflects on this form of travel, which becomes a metaphor for his life.
What is riding the rails (train hopping)?
Pop's reason for not revealing Cal’s heritage earlier.
What is protecting him from discrimination or hardship?
This is what Superintendent Morrell takes great pride in on campus.
What are the livestock barns?
The Bonus Army protested in Washington, D.C., asking for this.
What are early payments of their WWI bonuses?
The individual that would say, "my bad luck."
Who is Cal's mother?
This is Cal's prized possession that he must hide from the boarding school staff for fear of it being stolen.
What is the France Victory Medal?
This group of veterans influenced Papa's beliefs and decisions.
What is the Bonus Army?
This is the person the gang gets blankets from to perform their ritual in the woods.
Who is Mr. Adams?
This was the individual who led the charge of the removal of veterans from the capital after orders from the President.
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
The individual that states "my word as a knight of the road."
Who is Jaybird?