Show:
Chapters 9 - 11
Chapters 12 - 14
Chapters 15 - 17
Chapters 18 & 19
Figurative Language
100
The reason Bud likes Civil War books
What is because he likes the gory pictures
100

the name of the place where Bud meets Herman and the band

The Log Cabin

100
the reason Mr. Calloway's house is called "Grand Calloway Station"
What is it's called Grand Calloway Station after New York City's Grand Central Station because both have people coming and going at all times
100

Bud' mom's name

Angela Janet Caldwell

100

"The Thug kept everything moving by making drums and the giant fiddle pound out a steady beat, like someone's heart turned way up loud."

simile

200
The idea that started growing in Bud's mind when Billie Burns told Bud that he didn't know who his daddy was
What is Bud began claiming and believing that Herman E. Calloway was his father
200

Bud's FIRST impression of Herman E. Calloway

He is old

200
The word Miss Thomas uses when talking about the bedroom that makes Bud think it may be haunted
What is she tells him that the girl whose clothes and toys are in the room is "gone" and Bud believes "gone" means dead
200
the collection and connection Bud and Mr. Calloway share
What is Mr. Calloway collects rocks from each of his engagements and writes the date and place on each rock to give to his daughter; Bud's mother also had a collection of rocks. Mr. Calloway realizes that the rocks that Bud has are part of his daughter's collection and that Bud is his grandson
200

"I clump-clump-clumped down the steps, stopping a couple times to yawn real loud."

onomatopoeia 

300

Bud thought that Lefty Lewis was originally a what

a vampire 

300
The reason the police stop Mr. Lewis
What is the police say they are looking for "those stinking labor organizers" that "might be sneaking up here from Detroit"
300
the 3 reasons the band gives Bud the stage name Sleepy LaBone
What is he is called Sleepy LaBone because he is able to sleep until after noon, the prefix La is French and sounds classy, and Bone because he's as skinny as a bone
300
the reason Momma ran away from home
What is Bud's mother ran away from home because her father was very strict with her and he wanted her to go to college and become a school teacher, which was not part of her dreams for herself; She ran away with a drummer and he never heard from her again
300

"The car only walked thirty steps before it commenced to bucking and finally cut right off."

personification 

400
Bud's destination and reason for traveling from Flint, Michigan
What is Grand Rapids, Michigan to try to find his father
400

The climax of the novel

Bud begins to cry; Miss Thomas says go ahead and cry, you're home

400
the way Bud turns his cleaning experience into pleasure
What is Bud imagines himself as a character in a book his mother used to read to him
400

the final gift the band gives Bud

What is an alto saxophone

400

"While the rest of the band was being a storm, she was the sun bursting through think, gray clouds."

metaphor

500

The meal Bud had at the Sleet's home

breakfast

500

The reason Bud is convinced Mr. Calloway must be his father after he overhears Mr. Calloway in a conversation at the Log Cabin

Talking just like him: "make any sense to keep on doing it'; This reminded him of himself and his experience with Todd Amos when he thought that it just made no sense to keep fighting. He believes he and Mr. Calloway think alike because they are father and son.

500
the reason Bud describes Miss Thomas' singing and Steady Eddie's response with the saxophone a "conversation"
What is they seem to be talking to one another through their singing and music playing
500
the 2 reasons Mr. Calloway always keeps 1 white musician in his band
What is (1) because in his area, it's illegal for blacks to own property, so the property is listed in the white player's name, and (2) because the white player is sent to set up playing engagements with the white community so that the band gets hired before the contacts know it is a black band
500

"It was the softest thing I'd ever felt in my life!"

hyperbole