Graveyard+Book+Questions

__CHAPTER ONE __

Answer in Complete Sentences:

1. Why does the man Jack visit the tall house on the side of the hill? How does he track his prey? 2. How does the baby manage to escape the fate of his family? 3. Why does Mistress Owens feel an obligation to protect the baby? How does she and the mysterious stranger named Silas save him? 4. How does Nobody get his name? How will he exist in the graveyard ? 5. Who is the Lady on the Grey? How does she help settle the dispute in the graveyard? 6. Why does Silas pay a visit to the tall house on the side of the hill and what does he find?

__Digging Deeper__ Silas is described as a solitary stranger who belongs neither to the world of the living nor to the world of the dead. What peculiar habits and attributes does he possess? What predictions can you make about him at this point in the story? Use specific details from the book.

__CHAPTER TWO __

Answer in Complete Sentences: 1. Why is Bod restricted to the graveyard? 2. How does Bod learn his ABCs, even though he doesn't attend school? 3. How does Scarlett and Bod become friends? Why are Scarlett’s parents convinced that Bod must be an imaginary playmate? 4. Why does Bod visit Caius Pompeius? What does he learn about the oldest bodies in the graveyard? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">5. What discoveries does Bod and Scarlett make? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">6. Who is the Sleer? How and what does it guard and protect? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">7. Why is Silas doubtful that Bod would ever see Scarlett again? What parting thoughts does Scarlett leave with Bod?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">__Digging Deeper__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Silas told Bod that “some skills can be attained by education, some by practice andsome by time.” Give several examples of skills that belong in each category that Bod needs to learn. Then describe how he might acquire these skills.

__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">CHAPTER THREE __

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Answer in Complete Sentences: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1. Why does Silas ask Miss Lupescu to serve as Bod’s temporary guardian? How does Bod feel about this arrangement? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">2. What is a ghoul-gate and how could you spot one in a graveyard? Why is Bod will ing to pass through the gate? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">3. How does the ghouls' behavior towards Bod change once he enters their kingdom? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">4. Why does Bod feel that he is “between the devil and the deep blue sea” as he is being carried in Victor Hugo’s sack? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">5. How does Miss Lupescu’s lessons prove useful to Bod? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">6. What surprising discovery does Bod make about Miss Lupescu? How does she fulfill her job?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">__Digging Deeper__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Do you think that Miss Lupescu is being truthful when she claims that the big gray dog in the graveyard is not her dog? What makes you say this?

__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">CHAPTER FOUR __

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1. Why is Bod warned to stay away from the far corner of the graveyard? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">2. Why is Mr. Pennyworth disappointed in Bod’s progress? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">3. Why is Liza Hempstock’s neighbors determined that she is a witch? How does Liza get her revenge? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">4. Why does Bod return to the barrow? How does he plan to use one of the treasures guarded by the Sleer? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">5. How does Bod display courage in the face of the Sleer? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">6. Why does Abanazer Bolger believe that Bod presented him with two kinds of treasure? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">7. Why does Abanazer Bolger invite Bod into the back room for tea and a chat? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">8. Why does Liza thank Bod for doing the first nice thing in five hundred years? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">9. How does Liza help Bod escape from the locked room? How does Bod help himself? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">10. How does Silas, the Sleer and Mr. Owens each react when Bod returns to the graveyard?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">__Digging Deeper__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">“Sometimes. Mostly, no. It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but you learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.” <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Who is saying this in Chapter Four and what is he talking about? Incorporate your own thoughts in your answer.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">__ CHAPTER FIVE __

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1. Why did Mistress Owen push Bod out into the cold? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">2. How did the living prepare to dance the Macabray? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">3. Why did Bod suddenly feel a sense of panic in the graveyard? What helped him over- <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">come his fears? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">4. What surprising event happened at the stroke of midnight? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">5. How did Bod feel as he danced? How did these feelings change after the dance with the lady in the cobweb dress? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">6. How did the inhabitants of the graveyard respond to Bod’s questions after the dance? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">7. Why did the silver-haired man at the dinner criticize the man Jack?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">__Digging Deeper – Write out__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">What do you think Mother Slaughter meant when she said, “Things blossom in their <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time”?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">__CHAPTER SEVEN__

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1. Why did Mrs. Owens fear for Bod? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">2. Why was Scarlett’s mother upset when she learned how her daughter met Mr. Frost? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">3. How did Scarlett become reacquainted with Bod? What unusual abilities did Scarlett seem to possess? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">4. At the age of fourteen, what bothered Bod most about life among the dead? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">5. Why did Scarlett visit the public library? What did she learn? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">6. What surprising discovery did Bod make about Mr. Frost? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">7. Why did the Jacks of All Trades want to kill Bod? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">8. How had Silas, Miss Lupescu, and other members of the Honour Guard protected Bod from the Jacks? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">9. How did Bod save himself from the remaining five Jacks? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">10. Why did Silas take away some of the memories of Scarlett and her mother? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">11. Why was the triumph over the Jacks a bittersweet experience for Bod?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">__Digging Deeper__

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Do you agree with Silas that people want to forget the impossible because it makes <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">their world safer? How might this chapter ending have changed if Silas had not taken <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Scarlett’smemories?

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