Show:
People, Places, and Things
Landlady
Elements of Plot
Grammar
Vocabulary
100

What are the names in the Landlady's guestbook?

Christopher Mulholland and Gregory W. Temple.

100
This is the way Billy believes successful businessmen walk and act.
What is brisk?
100
This is the point in a story with the greatest suspense, a turning point.
What is the climax?
100
"And now a queer thing happened to him." The complete predicate of the sentence is this.
What is "happened to him"?
100
These are the fronts of buildings.
What are facades?
200

Bath

The town Billy arrives in at the beginning of the story.

200
This is the only thing the Landlady asks Billy to do before going to bed.
What is sign the guestbook?
200
When Billy arrives in Bath and begins searching for a place to stay, The Landlady is in this plot stage.
What is the exposition?
200
In the sentence, "The big shots up at the head office were absolutely fantastically brisk all the time" the word BRISK is this kind of complement.
What is a predicate adjective?
200
Someone who is respectful or agreeable.
What is a congenial?
300

Billy Weaver stays at the Bed and Breakfast , Whats the name?

The Bell and Dragon

300
The Landlady's perfect guest is like this.
What is handsome?
300
When the Sneetches learn to live together whether they have stars on their bellies or not, Dr. Seuss's The Sneetches is in which stage of the plot?
What is the resolution?
300
In the sentence, "He found the guest book lying open on the piano" this word is the direct object.
What is book?
300
A peculiar smell seemed to ______ from her person.
What is emanate?
400

What are the two household pets at first?

 Dog and Bird

400
The Landlady is described as being like this common childhood toy because of the way she answers the door when Billy rings the bell.
What is a jack-in-the-box?
400
This stage of plot occurs in The Landlady between the times when Billy signs the guestbook and when he realizes the dog and bird are stuffed.
What is the falling action?
400
The predicate noun in the following sentence is this word. "They were both famous for the same sort of thing."
What is famous?
400
Ebenezer Scrooge of A Christmas Carol is an example of this kind of person.
What is rapacious?
500

The tea Billy drinks has this taste , Which is it?

Almonds

500
These two WWII world leaders are described as being linked like the two men in the Landlady's guestbook. (Hint: One is a U.S. President, the other a British Prime Minister.)
Who are Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill? (FDR, Roosevelt, Churchill ok)
500
When Billy decides to stay at the Bed and Breakfast the story is in this plot stage.
What is the rising action?
500
"I’ll give you a nice cup of tea and a ginger biscuit before you go to bed." In this sentence, YOU is this kind of complement.
What is an indirect object?
500
This word originates in Greek mythology with a king who was condemned to eternally stand in water he could never drink under a tree with fruit just out of his reach.
What is tantalizing?