The Scooperinos
Inquiries
Deep Thoughts
Thinkers
Prep for Test
100
What does Gramps sometimes call Gram?
Gooseberry
100
What was the name of the police officer Sal and Phoebe talked to?
Sergeant Bickle
100
Why does Sal not get mad at Phoebe even when she's being a stinkerpoopoo?
Sal knows that when your mother leaves, you want to be alone with the birds of sadness.
100
Why did Gramps cray when he walked in the new house?
His brothers and father brought the marriage bed.
100
What did Gram and Gramps do with the senator's tires?
They "borrowed" them.
200
What happened when Sal tried to kiss Ben?
She kissed Ben's locker instead.
200
How did Sal get her name?
Her parents thought it was her great great grandma's Indian name.
200
What is Sal's mother's real name?
Chanhassen
200
How did Mrs. Partridge become blind?
A carcrash.
200
Why did Sal's mother cry after her husband gave her and Sal flowers?
The flowers made her feel that her husband was perfect and she was not.
300
Why did Sal's mom leave?
She wanted to clear her head.
300
How did Mr. Cadaver die?
A drunk driver rammed into his car.
300
What was the dream that Sal had after she saw Mr. and Mrs. Finney on the roof of their house?
Her mother was climbing a ladder and never stopped climbing it.
300
What was the 3rd message Phoebe received?
In the course of a lifetime, does does it matter?
300
How does Mrs. Partridge tell people's ages?
By feeling their faces with her hands.
400
When did Sal want to get to Idaho in time for?
Her mom's birthday.
400
Who was born in the "marriage bed"?
Gramps, all of his siblings, and his children.
400
After Sal's mom left, Sal realized she had been like a mirror. What other characteristics mirrored one another?
When Sal's mom kisses the tree, Sal starts to kiss trees.
400
What age did the man at the fair guess Phoebe's father was?
52
400
What does Sal do with her mother's hair?
She puts them under the floorboards in her room.
500
Who drew the same soul as Sal?
Ben
500
What may have caused Sal's mother's miscarriage?
She carried Sal after she fell out of the tree.
500
Ben sent Sal a valentine. What did it say?
Roses are red, dirt is brown. Please be my valentine, or else I'll frown.
500
Why wouldn't Phoebe eat butter?
Cholesterol
500
Why does Sal lie to Phoebe and Ben about her mother?
She feels she cannot explain, and part of her believes that her mother is still alive.
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