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Plot
Characters
Setting
Literary Elements
Quotes and Vocabulary
100
This is what Grandma Dowdel threatened the Cowgill boys with.
What is a shotgun?
100
"I won't pay for it. I'm taking my grandkids on a visit to my cousin Leota Shrewsbury."
What is Grandma Dowdel?
100
This is the year this story took place.
What is 1930?
100
This is a literary term that uses "like" or "as" to compare to unlike things.
What is a simile?
100
"And this was no small charge, not a baby-waker or even a torpedo."
What are fireworks?
200
This event caused Grandma Dowdel to bait the Cowgill boys into stealing her gun.
What is the tipping over of Effie Wilcox's privy?
200
"Grandma blew up all four of their boys with a cherry bomb. Now she's got them pinned down with the shotgun."
Who is Joey Dowdel?
200
This is the historical figure on Joey's puzzle.
Who is Charles A. Lindbergh?
200
This is a literary term that DOES NOT use like or as to compare two like things.
What is a metaphor?
200
"She nodded down the back path to the cobhouse and the privy, and she didn't mean the cobhouse."
What is the outhouse?
300
This is what Grandma Dowdel does to make sure Mr. Cowgill disciplines his sons.
What is blackmailing him with a mouse in the milk?
300
"Jump said Coolidge, Jump said Hoover, Jump said the driver of the furniture mover."
Who is Mary Alice?
300
This is where Grandma Dowdel wants to send the Cowgill boys.
What is the penitentiary?
300
"...made my puzzle jump."
What is personification?
300
"I could picture them hanging me from my eaves by my belt and taking turns slapping me to sleep."
What is getting beat up?
400
This is the number of sons Mr. Cowgill has.
What are four sons?
400
"I'm dead. Oh yes, I'm dead."
Who is Ernie Cowgill?
400
These are the two presidential figures Mary Alice sings in her jump rope song.
Who are Coolidge and Hoover?
400
"I raced like the wind through the nighttime town."
What is a simile?
400
"Skin to the church and get their maw and paw,"
What is go?
500
This is what Mr. Cowgill uses to punish his sons.
What is Grandpa Dowdel's leather shaving strap?
500
"My boys aren't broke out with brains you know. I have an idea they just wandered into the wrong house."
Who is Mr. Cowgill?
500
This is the name of the church Joey has to retrieve the Cowgills from.
What is Holy Rollers?
500
"Mrs. Dowdel, whoeee"
What is onomatopoeia?
500
"The Cowgill boys looked like they were on the chain gang already."
What is prison?