Charecters
Scene
Flashbacks
Secrets and lies
Jack
100

What is the full name of the character who is dead?

Who is Lydia Lee

100

Where are the first three chapters taking place, and in what year?

What is a small town in Ohio in the late 1970’s

100

Where did the parents meet?

What is Radcliff/Harvard

100

What is Lydia's FIrst Secret?

What is having no friends

100

What is Jack’s relationship with Lydia?

What is a friendship

200

What are the names of Lydia’s two siblings?

Who is Nath and Hannah

200

Where is Lydias body found?

What is the lake

200

What classes does Marilyn want to take instead of the standard ones?

What are shop and physics

200

What does James hide from the rest of the family?  

What is having an affair.

200

What is Jack's family picture looking like this far in the book? (What we know)

What is his father is not in the picture, and his mother works nights at the hospital six nights a week

300

What is one main pair has conflict in the beginning of the book?

Who are Nath and Jack (etc)

300

What was the first thing noticed differently than usual on the day of Lydia’s disappearance?

What is the untouched breakfast

300

What does James struggle with growing up?

What is racism and discrimination

300

What do we find out about Lydia in the third chapter?

What is always being upset about everything

300

What barrier lies between Lydia and Jacks relationship?

What is tension between families

400

Why does James want to marry Marilyn?

What is being able to fit in

400

Where does James have the autopsy shipped to, and why?

What is shipped to his school to protect Marilyn.

400

Why does Marilyn give up her dreams of being a doctor?

What is being pregnant with Nath

400

What does Lydia’s mother find in her room?

What is empty journals/diaries

400

Why does Jack have a bad reputation?

What is moving on from girl to girl

500

What is Marilyns goal for Lydia?

What is becoming a doctor and being a better version of herself

500

What is neat about Lydia's room, and what isn't? (one example of each)

What is the bed is neat, but her bag is not

500

Why is James job of note to some people in the beginning of the story?

What is being Chinese American teaching a US history class

500

What does Hannah know about Lydia that she isn’t telling her family?

What is seeing her on the night she disappeared

500

Why is Jack and Lydia's relationship affected by Jack's mother?

What is her disapproval of Lydias Chinese heritage