Places
People
Things
Story Themes
Comprehension
100

The final destination for Sal and her grandparent?

 What is Lewiston, Idaho?

100

This person leaves her family and disappears.  However she does leave the family cooked food in the freezer.

Who is Mrs Winterbottom

100

Why did Phoebe not eat at Mary Ellen's house when she and Sal went there for dinner

They served meat and everything had butter on it.  She was concerned about Cholesterol!

100

What theme would you identify with girls coping with being abandoned by their mothers? 

Loss and Grief

100

Phoebe thinks this was under the rhododendron bush in Mrs. Cadaver's yard.

What is Mr. Cadaver's body?

200

Sal and her father moved from what state to live in this state.

What is Bybanks, Kentucky and Euclid, Ohio?

200

Tommy and Dougie's sister.

Who is Mary Lou?

200

Gramps says this every night when they get into bed and go to sleep on their trip.

This ain't our wedding bed

200

Sal has a deep connection to Bybanks, Kentucky.  This would connect to what theme?

Nature

200

What does the term 'Don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins' mean?

Don't judge someone until you've walked in their shoes and understood what they are going through or who they are.

300

In our final reading before vacation, what landmark did Sal and her grandparents visit?

What is Old Faithful

300

The person Sal and Phoebe see in the drug store.

Who is the lunatic?

300

This person catches Phoebe and Sal breaking into her house

Who is Mrs. 

300

Growing up and maturing would be considered what theme?

Coming of age

300

What does Phoebe think happened to her mother?

What is she was kidnapped by the lunatic

400

Who's journey are Sal and her grandparents following?

Who is Sal's mother

400

Why does Sal's mother go to Lewiston, Ideeho

What is to find out who she was before being a wife and mother.

400

While driving from Ohio to Ideeho, Sal tells her grandparents the story of what person

Phoebe

400

 A bond between two people, such as Sal and Phoebe would be considered what theme?

Friendship

400

Who sends a postcard saying that she misses Sal and Sal is all she can think about.


Sal's Mother

500

This happens to Gram at the beginning their trip causing her to be hospitalized?

What is being bit by a poisonous snake

500


Who is the crazy teacher and who is he related to?

Who is Mr. Birkway and he is related to Mrs. Cadaver (sister) and Mrs. Partridge (mother)


500

How did Mrs. Partridge lose her ability to see and who was she with when this happened

She was in a car accident with Mrs. Cadaver's husband who died

500

Sal trying to get to see her mother by her birthday and Phoebe refusing to sit back and do nothing to find her mother would be considered what type of theme?

What is persistence

500


While telling Phoebe's story to her grandparents, Sal reveals to the reader another story about who?

Who is herself

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