Vocab
What is a dory?
What did Turner get hit in the face with while practicing baseball on the beach?
What is a rock?
What is the setting of the novel? (2 places)
Malaga Island and Phippsburg
Turner felt like he was good at what game and ended up being terrible?
Baseball
Lizzie enjoys digging up ______ for soup?
Clams
What is brawling?
fighting
Turner gets in trouble at the beginning of the book with Mrs. Cobb. What does he do and what is his punishment? (the first time he gets in trouble)
He was kicking/throwing rocks and now he has to read to her.
Who is Deacon Hurd's son?
Willis Hurd
Turner gets into trouble with his father for embarrassing him because of what happened after his fight with Willis. What did he do?
He stood in Mrs. Cobb's house in his underwear.
Why is Mrs. Cobb so shocked when Lizzie arrives in her home?
Lizzie is black
What is a calamity?
a disastrous event
Mrs. Hurd is taken out of the community by her son and sent to the Home of the Feeble Minded. Her grandson then paints her shutters back to the color they were. Who is her grandson and what color does he paint them?
Willis Hurd paints them back to yellow.
Which family on Malaga Island put their house on a raft and left?
The Tripp Family
Turner is forbidden from doing something several times, what is it?
Going to Malaga Island or talking to/hanging out with Lizzie
What can Lizzie do better than Turner?
What is reverence?
a deep respect for something
The town leaders of Phippsburg want to do what with Malaga Island?
Build hotels for tourists
What were Mrs. Cobb's last words?
"Oh hell, it's warm in here, go get me a ginger ale."
Mrs. Cobb leaves Turner something in her will, what is it?
Her house
Lizzie's grandfather tries to explain why they cannot move off of the island. What do they have there that is so important?
a cemetery
What are mudflats?
Wetlands that form when mud is left behind by tides
There are four people who died in this novel all of which were important to Turner. Name them in order of their deaths.
Mrs. Cobb, Lizzie's grandfather, Turner's father, and Lizzie
Turner is told you don't have to be a minister's son all the time. What does this mean?
You don't always have to listen to your father. Sometimes you have to make your own decisions.
Turner often felt like he did not belong and wanted to _______.
Light out for the territories.
Turner want's to give Lizzie an extravagant gift along with the Easons. What is it?
Mrs. Cobb's house