Characters
Who Joe left behind for the summer in hopes of finding work.
Who is Joyce?
Person who steers the shell and is the on-the-water coach for the crew.
What is the Coxswain?
True or false: Joe wanted on the rowing team so he didn't have to get a job on campus
False.
The place where Joe had to travel to find a job.
What is Grand Coulee?
The cost of a snickers bar in the 1930s
What is a nickel?
Johnny White was number 2 seat in this boat.
What is the freshman boat?
The forward section of the boat. The first part of the boat to cross the finish line.
What is The Bow?
The job Joe did at the school house.
What is splitting wood?
What is the summer?
The cost of a dozen eggs in 1920.
What is 47 cents?
The first new character introduced in chapter 17
Who is Johnny White?
A wide collar on the oar that keeps it from slipping through the oarlock.
What is the Button?
The illeagl jobs Joe did when he was on his own.
What is stealing an reselling larger fish, wine, and beer?
Who Joe felt he had to prove himself too.
Who is Thula, his father, or Joyce?
The cost of a loaf of bread in 1930.
What is 9 cents?
The character that seems to influence many aspects of Joe's life and Joe always feels the need to prove himself to.
Who is Thula?
Left side of the boat, while facing forward, in the direction of the movement.
What is the Port?
Who long it took Joe to get a job at Grand Coulee.
What is 30 minutes?
The hardest and highest paying job at Grand Coulee.
What is jackhammerer?
The cost of a gallon of milk in the 1920s.
What is 26 cents?
The character whose eyes were described as cheerful one moment, and flashing with rage the next.
Who is Chuck Day?
When was rowing first put into the Olympic games
What is the original Olympics (1896)?
The jobs Joe did out of highschool to pay for his first year of college.
What is bailling hay and paving driveways?
The people Joe hungout with his first couple weeks at Grand Coulee.
What is no one?
How much the men who jackhammered made each hour.
What are 75 cents an hour?