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SAL'S MOTHER
PLACES
THE DEPARTURE OF MRS. WINTERBOTTOM
SAL
IDENTIFY
100
What is the importance of Lewiston, Idaho?
It is the place to which Sal's mother ran away.
100
What is Bybank?
Sal's hometown in Kentucky.
100
How does Phoebe react to her mother's leaving?
She believes her mother was kidnapped, and she searches for clues.
100
Why does Sal kiss trees?
She once saw her mother do this.
100
Gooseberry

What gramps sometimes calls gram.

200
What does Sal's father work obsessively upon, after Sal's mother leaves?
He works at chipping away plaster to reveal a fireplace in the old house.
200
What is Euclid?
The town in Ohio that Sal and her father move to.
200
How does Mr. Winterbottom react to his wife's leaving?
He is quiet and sad, and tries to do the work his wife did in the house.
200
Why is Sal afraid of pregnant women?
Because of the death of her sister and her mother's hospitalization.
200
Huzza, Huzza!
What gram says when she is excited.
300
What does Sal's mother lose, maybe as a result of carrying an injured Sal back to the house?
Her second child.
300
How does Sal describe the Badlands?
Jagged peaks with deep valleys and brilliant colors.
300
What does Phoebe tell her classmates about her mother?
That she has traveled to London on business.
300
Why does Ben ask Sal to let him read her palm, even though he knows nothing about palm reading?
He wants to hold her hand for a long time.
300
Chickabiddy.
What gram and gramps call Sal.
400
Describe one way the word "tulip" is important in the book.
It is the name Sal gives to the dead child, and Sal's mother says she will return "before the tulips bloom" (she doesn't).
400
Why is gramps disgusted at Wall Drug?
It is full of cheaply made souvenirs.
400
What do Phoebe and Sal find in the freezer at the Winterbottom home?
Many, many meals that Mrs. Winterbottom prepared for her family.
400
In the past, what experience did Sal have with the family dog Moody Blue and a rabbit?
Moody Blue caught the rabbit and carried it around. Sal rescued it unhurt, but the rabbit died in her hands.
400
Peeby.
What gram and gramps call Phoebe.
500
What is Sal's mother's favorite kind of story?
Stories from the Native Americans (Indians).
500
What is the Native American story that concerns the Badlands and the sky?
The sky was too low in this area, and some people were disappearing into it, so people pushed the sky up very high with their poles. 
500
Late at night Phoebe goes downstairs from her bedroom and finds her father. What is her father doing?
Sitting in front of a turned-off TV and apparently crying.
500
Sal's father says to Sal more than once that she is trying to catch fish in the air. What does he mean?
That she is thinking things that cannot be true or hoping for things that will never happen.
500
A maple leaf inside a circle.
What Sal and Ben both drew when they were asked by their teacher to draw their souls.