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400

Describe Jack's personality.

1. Confident

2. Introverted

3. Determined and tenacious

4. Kind and caring friend

What is 3? Determined and tenacious 

400

What is a psychosomatic?

1. a brain disorder

2. a type of dream

3. a type of hallucination

4. a physical disorder caused by emotional factors

What is a physical disorder influenced by emotional factors?

400

Why does Jack want to find his father?

To see if he can help him with his problem?

400

What country does the story take place in?

What is England?

400

What is the name of the boy who chases Jack and Beth off his roof?

What is Kai?

800

Jack met Beth at school.  True or False.


What is false?

800

Sinister

1. exhausting

2. comical

3. evil

4. whimsical

What is evil?

800

Why does Beth carry her rucksack with her everywhere?

Her parents ashes are inside.

800

Where do Jack and Beth find the info on Bioscience?

What is the library?

800

When does Beth stop wearing the black and white make-up?

What is the end of the book when they go to Witcombe beach?

1200

Who was Mrs. Roberts?

What is next-door neighbor?

           

1200

to become "ballistic"

1. to round yourself into a ball

2. to become irrational

3. to become giddy

4. to become angry

What is to become irrational?

1200

Why do Jack and Beth go to Auntie Lil's?

She is Jack's Dad's sister, and may know where he is.

1200

Where did Beth lose half of the ashes in the urns?

What Auntie Lil's?

1200

Why does Beth scatter rose petals instead of ashes?

The urns broke and all the ashes fell onto the ground after they escaped from Kai in the rain.

1600

Where was Jack's Dad?

No one knew?

1600

vestibule

1. Article of clothing worn over a shirt

2. steps leading out of a building

3. passage or hall between the entry of a building and the next room.

What is a passage or hall between the entryway and next room?

1600

How do Jack and Beth first get in to Bioscience Discoveries?

They lie and say they're doing a school project.

1600

Where does Jack's dad now live and work?

1. Gloucestershire

2. Aberdeen

3. London

4. Colford

What is Aberdeen?

1600

What is the skin condition Jack has?

What is Photosensitivity?

2000

Who was Dr. Blackstone?

Who is a scientist and his father's old boss at Bioscience Discoveries?

2000

grappled

What is struggle with?

2000

What is the true story about Jack's dad's research? Was he testing his anti-aging research out on children?

No.  He was a renowned scientist, but he was plagued by all the false media coverage about him.

2000

Where does Jack's mum work?

What is a Super Market?

2000

Does Jack find a cure for his skin condition?


No, but it improves with less stress and worry?