Characters
This character is the protagonist in the novel.
Who is Dana?
"I'm from New York." (67)
Who is Kevin?
Tom offers Kevin a job.
What is tutoring Rufus?
Tom Weylin hates his first wife because of this.
What is she loved to read?
In present day California it's this year.
What is 1976?
This character is in charge of the Cookhouse.
Who is Sarah?
"Why you go around looking like a zombie all the time?" (53)
Who is Kevin?
Dana experiences this before she time travels.
What is dizzy, nauseous, and everything gets blurry?
Kevin and Dana describe the place they met.
What is a "slave market"?
Tom has this interest in Dana.
What is wanting to purchase Dana and keep her to teach Rufus how to read?
This character is married to Tom and spoils her son Rufus.
Who is Margaret?
"I started thinking that if I burned the house, he would lose all of his money." (26)
Who is Rufus?
Dana gets caught doing this in the Cookhouse that results in her getting severely punished by Tom.
What is teaching Nigel to read?
The significance of the confrontation between Rufus and his mother.
What is the first time we see Rufus get angry and resembles his father?
Tom Weylin reacts this way when Rufus falls out of the tree.
What is getting angry and only concerned about how much it's going to cost him?
This character is the son of Luke and a friend of Rufus.
Who is Nigel?
"I guess you'll do as well as your sister... I came back for her, but you're just like her." (42)
Who is the patroller?
Tom Weylin's first wife.
Who is Hannah?
This upsets Dana about the children's game.
Young black children are playing a game mimicking a slave sale. She believes that it's setting them up to accept slavery as adults.
Each time Dana gets pulled back into the antebellum south she goes to this state.
What is Maryland?
This character is the daughter of Sarah and does not speak (mute).
Who is Carrie?
"I won't have you in my house.. You stop looking at me this way!" (93)
Who is Margaret Weylin?
Dana's actions prompts Margaret Weylin to slap Dana across the face.
What is Dana admits to sleeping in Kevin Franklin's room?
Describe the differences between Sarah's children.
What is with the exception of Carrie, all of Sarah's children were sold by Tom Weylin?
This happens to Alice and her family after Dana left the last time.
What is Tom was afraid Alice's father would run away, so he sold him to a trader heading south to Georgia?