Characters
Name the 13-year old narrator of the story Walk Two Moons?
What is Salamanca "Sal" Tree Hiddle?
What is the first message/idiom that Phoebe received?
What is "Don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins."
Bonus question: What does it mean?
What point of view is the story told from?
What is Sal/first-person point of view.
The fireplace hidden behind the plaster wall was like who's story?
What is Sal's story hidden beneath Phoebe's story.
Which characters experienced the loss of a parent?
Who is Sal, Gypsy, and Woodrow.
Bonus Question: How did the lose their parents?
Who was it that Sal first saw looking out the window when she arrived in Euclid, Ohio?
Who is Phoebe Winterbottom?
What is the second message/idiom Phoebe received?
What is "Everyone has his own agenda."
Bonus Question: What does it mean?
What example of personification in nature that symbolized Sal's mom was not returning?
What is the Singing tree?
Why did Phoebe's mom leave her family?
What is She felt like she lived a tiny life; she needed to figure out how to tell her family about Mike; she needed to figure out who she was.
Which two characters blamed themselves and their parents for leaving them?
Who is Sal and Gypsy.
Who was it that thought they could could never be a true Hiddle?
Who is Chanhassen "Sugar" Pickford Hiddle(Sal's Mother)
What is the third message/idiom that Phoebe received?
What is "In the course of a lifetime what does it matter."
Bonus Question: What does it mean?
What journey helped Sal walk in her mother's moccasins/understand her mother better?
What is the roadtrip from Euclid, Ohio to Lewiston, Idaho?
What is one memory that Sal regrets with her mom?
What is when she yelled at her mom the day before she left.
What two characters had extraordinary imaginations?
Who is Woodrow and Phoebe.
Who's favorite phrase is, "This ain't our marriage bed, but it will do."?
Who is Gramps.
Bonus Question: Who's favorite phrase is, "Huzza, Huzza"?
What is the fourth message/idiom that Phoebe received?
What is "You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair."
Bonus Question: What does it mean?
What is one reason Sal's mom felt like she had to leave for a while?
What is the death of her baby/was not able to have any more children/had to figure out who she was BEFORE a wife and mother.
What did Sal's dad not want her to think was her fault?
What is when her mom carried her which led to her losing the baby.
Why did Gypsy's father kill himself?
What is he cared too much about his appearance.
Who was described as "slashing and slogging" at the bushes outside her house?
What is Margaret Cadaver?
What is the fifth idiom/message Phoebe receives?
What is, "We don't know the worth of water until the well is dry."
Bonus Question: What does it mean?
What is the theme of the book?
What is "Don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins."
What did Sal learn about how to deal with her mom's absence by telling Phoebe's story?
What is She learned her mom was sad and needed to figure out who she was; She learned to accept and not judge her for her decisions.
Which two characters learned that their parents leaving had nothing to do with them?
What is Sal and Gyspy?
Bonus Question: What message/idiom relates to the change Sal and Gypsy went through?