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Zachary
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100
Small Town with small population in Antler, Texas.
What is the setting?
100
Opalina enters a contest in Nashville.
What is Opalina going to enter in the Country Singing Contest at the Grand Ole Opry?
100
Extremely Clean
What is the inside of Zachary's trailer?
100
The sheriff's passenger is a dog.
Who rides around town with the sheriff?
100
Postman and raises worms to sell.
What are Mr. Wilson's two jobs?
200
The figurative language that uses as or like to compare two things.
What is simile?
200
Toby wishes he would have put more of this on before dancing with Scarlett at Glossimer Lake.
What is deodorant?
200
Cal and Toby leave this on Zachary's front step.
What is a snow cone?
200
The skinny guy taking money and handing out green tickets.
Who is Paulie Rankin?
200
To be inducted into military service at the age of 18.
What is the draft?
300
The author looks back to events in the past to help the reader understand the present.
What is Flashback?
300
The last high school junior in Antler to pass her driver's test.
What test did Kate finally pass?
300
Vietnam
Where is Wayne serving in the Army?
300
Kate socked Cal in the face for scratching her Carole King album.
What is Cal's black tooth?
300
Writes to his close friend's brother.
Who is Toby?
400
Looking back to make something clear in the story.
What is Flashback?
400
Even people small in size, can mean a lot to other.
What is the way the townspeople feel in Antler about Opalina?
400
Sun Bleached Cotton
What is the crop that the McKnights grow?
400
Toby and Cal broke a window at Zachary's trailer.
Why Toby thought Sheriff Levi came to his house?
400
Both of these characters love The Carpenter's Song - Close to You!
Who are Scarlett and Toby?
500
When I try to imagine dad and I going to Nashville, Dad comes out like a blur in an overexposed photo.
What is Foreshadowing?
500
The townspeople support Opalina going to Nashville to win the Grand Ole Opry Singing contest.
What is Inferring about Opalina how the townspeople feel?
500
Pruning - To Cut Back
What Mrs. McKnight does to her roses?
500
Zachary is taken to Child Protective Services.
What will happen to Zachary if Paulie does not come back?
500
This character loves to take pictures around town as the town historian and takes care of her older brother.
Who is Miss Myrtie Mae?
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