Ch. 1-10
This is the relationship that Lou and Oz have to both of their parents as the novel opens.
What is that Oz feels closer to his mother because of her nurturing nature, but Lou feels closer to her father because of their shared characteristics?
This coal companies controlled the Clinch Number Two mine.
What is Southern Valley?
This character paid for the full damages of George Davis's still.
Who is Diamond?
This character discovers this building fully ablaze.
Who is Lou and what is the barn?
“Yankee once is a Yankee for life. Coming here ain’t changing that.”
This was the stuffed animal which Oz held “crushed to his chest” during his father’s funeral service.
What is his teddy bear?
Cotton informed Diamond that this had been placed in the seat of the "mine superintendent's brand-new Chrysler".
What is cow manure?
This was the fate of Diamond's father.
What is that he died when a mountainside came down on him when the company was blasting a mine?
This character suffers this medical situation that causes paralysis on the left side.
Who is Louisa Mae and what is a stroke?
“Thought I’d let you and Oz sleep in.”
Who is Louisa Mae Cardinal
Lou informs the executors of her father’s estate that this family member would take them in.
Who is Louisa May?
Cotton is originally from this New England city.
What is Boston?
The Cardinal children along with Diamond and Eugene played this sport “in a field of bluegrass they had scythed”.
What is baseball?
Cotton Longfellow sells these items to help pay for Louisa Mae's delinquent property taxes.
What is his book collection?
"Sometimes the law and what's right aren't the same thing. That's when you have to fight the hardest."
Who is Cotton Longfellow?
This is the name for which 'Oz' is a short nickname.
What is Oscar?
Lou wishes to travel to this town on their day off.
What is Dickens?
Louisa teaches Oz and Lou how to ride this animal.
What is the Mare?
Jack's story from chapter 33 recounts a conversation between a farm and this type of person.
What is a preacher?
“You are hereby instructed to take no notice whatsoever of Dr. Ross saying that Miss Cardinal would not recover, for he is most assuredly not competent to testify to that.”
Who is Judge Atkins?
'Old Mo' was the nickname of this animal that threatened the sheep, hogs, and cows.
What is the mountain lion?
Lou suspected that this character was responsible for the fresh bruises on one of her classmates.
This is the name of the Davis child Louisa and Lou helped to deliver.
What is Lou?
Judd Wheeler acknowledged that Southern Valley had discovered this in Louisa Mae's mine.
What is natural gas?