Our impulsive protoganist, this visitor to the Connecticut country side misses her home, but sees it fit to go to America to live with her aunt, uncle, and two cousins.
Who is Kit Tyler?
100
Kit Tyler's home, and her main source of inspiration.
What is Barbados?
100
Fanciness, and frilliness; Mathew Wood's word for Kit's dresses.
What is frippery?
100
They accompany Hannah when Nat is away.
What are the stray cats?
200
The little girl who lost her doll in the water.
Who is Prudence?
200
The seafairing, freckled faced kid who knows a good soul when he sees one. Time after time, he appears in the strangest places.
Who is Nat Eaton?
200
The way Kit talks about Barbados; has to do with talking about something or someone as if of higher being
What is reverence?
200
Sweet syrup.
What is molasses?
200
Hannah lives alone on cheap land there and finds no reason to move.
Why does Hannah stay at Blackbird pond?
300
The act of being sunk in water to make sure someone is mortal.
What is the water trial?
300
Easily defined as "annoying," she believes anything out of the ordinary is wicked.
Who is Goodwife Cruff?
300
Kit used to have them while she was in Barbados, and were very plentiful in Barbados and in America, used as labor.
What are slaves?
300
A talk on a religious or moral subject, usually in church and on the Bible.
What is as sermon?
300
The area is flooded every year, but Hannah is dry by the end of it all.
What makes Hannah a "witch?"
400
Hannah Tupper lives there with her cats. It is her home, and has been since she came to Connecticut.
What is Blackbird Pond?
400
Tempermental and very strict, basically exactly like her father.
Who is Judith Wood?
400
Her grandfather and the beautiful scenery of the island.
What is Kit's favorite thing about Barbados?
400
To twist into an uncomfortable position.
What is writhing?
400
Nat is tied to Hannah by bringing her goods and is tied to Kit from the Dolphin.
What brings Nat into the story?/What is Nat's role in the plot?
500
Because she is so different from the rest of the citzens there.
What makes Kit a "witch?"
500
The witch of Blackbird Pond.
Who is Hannah Tupper?
500
Kit commemorates him by speaking up for his beliefs.
Who was Kit's grandfather?
500
Very stylish; Very "in"
What is modish?
500
Kit and Judith do work and Kit finds herself curious about the area.