Characters
Setting
Key Events
Plot Structure
100

This fifth grader is the novel's protagonist who gets lost in the woods with Marshall.

Tamaya Dhilwaddi

100

The private school where Tamaya and Marshall attend.

Woodridge Academy

100

What event in Chapter Three causes Marshall to take a shortcut through the woods?

To avoid a fight with Chad

100

The section where readers meet characters, setting and find out what is happening in the story is called what?

Exposition

200

Name the bully who forces Marshall to take a shortcut and later ends up injured in the woods.  

Chad Hilligas

200

The off-limits place the children enter that becomes central to the story.  

Woods
200

What object did Tamaya lower into the fuzzy mud that showed the mud’s strange effect?

A leaf

200

What do we call the event that sets off the rising action in the story?

Exciting force

300

This inventor created Biolene and testified before the senators. Who is he?

Jonathan Fitzman

300

The farm where Biolene was produced

SunRay Farm
300

Jonathan Fitzman said there were more than a trillion of these in a gallon of Biolene. What word did he use?

Ergonyms or ergie

300

What part of the plot structure is the part when we meet Tamaya and her friends call her a "goody two-shoes"?

Exposition

400

Tamaya has a best friend and a pretty friend mentioned early in the novel. Name one of them.

Monica or Summer

400

What action did the president order for the Heath Cliff area when the rash spread?

Quarantine

400

One reason fuzzy mud was dangerous is that it doubles how often? 

36 minutes

400

What part of the plot structure is when Tamaya leaves school to take her lunch to Chad?

Rising Action

500

Which character is a scientist who worries Biolene is creating life that shouldn’t exist and expresses concerns (Dr. _____)?

Dr. Marc Humbard

500
The month that the children go into the forbidden woods.

November

500

What phrase does Principal Thaxton remember Chad's mom saying as she handed her his tuition cheque?

He's your problem now.

500

After the climax or turning point, what is the next part of the plot structure called?

Falling action