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Some Wildflower
Target Study for Microscope parts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who is the author of this book? | Jamie Langston Turner |
| What ironic name is given to the newspaper in Filbert? | The Nutshell |
| What is Margaret Tuttle ' s job? | She runs the cafeteria at Emma Weldy Elementary School. |
| Why did Margaret's grandfather tell her to "refrain her lips?" | He did not want her to tell anyone he was molesting her. |
| What is Birdie doing when Margaret first meets her? | Playing for Mayfield's funeral. |
| How long have the Tuttles been married? | 16 years |
| Margaret tends to hold on to the past. How do you see this as she prepares the lunchroom workers for the beginning of school? | She refers back to an accounting error that occurred three years before, and reminds the staff that she found grease on some equipment five years before. |
| How are Francine and Algeria opposites? | Francine is always cheerful and Algeria is surly. |
| How long had Vonnie Lee, Francine, and Algeria been a team? | 10 years. |
| What does Birdie do that makes Margaret feel she knew her job? | She scrubs the grout in the backsplash with bleach. |
| To what does Margaret attribute the changes in the work environment? | Birdie - her singing, her gentle attitude |
| To whom does Margaret compare Birdie ' s husband, Mickey? | Ross Perot |
| How did Margaret come to work at Emma Weldy Elementary School? | She came to Filbert to break all ties with her past life, and walked into the office just as the 3rd grade teacher went home sick, the librarian had a migraine, and a lunchroom worker walked out. She was offered the lunchroom position. |
| In chapter 3 Margaret finds a small child's shoe and remembers the feeling of a small foot in her palm. She recalls a poem in which an unborn fawn is sacrificed for human safety. What does this foreshadow? | Her pregnancy and the birth of a child she loved and lost. |
| How do Margaret and Birdie differ in their approach to shoe problems? | Margaret does the minimum required to neither help nor hurt, while Birdie actively helps the child. Margaret holds herself apart, while Birdie seeks relationship. |
| How does Birdie begin to affect Margaret? | She becomes less curt with others, and unable to hold herself aloof from them. |
| How did Margaret's mother die? | She was killed in a freak accident at work. |
| Why did Margaret refuse to open the door to her neighbor who came to take her to the hospital? | Her mother had told her never to open the door for anyone but her. |
| Would Margaret's mother have wanted her to live with her parents? | No. She spent her life running from, and hiding her daughter from her parents. This is most likely why Margaret was home schooled, to keep her hidden and safe. |
| Margaret's grandfather was an elder in his church. What was her response to this? | She hated her grandfather, and rejected his religion. |
| Who first gave Margaret the idea of writing the book? | Joan suggested that writing things down would help her deal with the past. |
| How old was Tyndall when he died, and what happened to him? | Tyndall was four, and he pulled a boiling pot of water over on himself. |
| When did Margaret reveal her past? | On the way to dinner and a show with Thomas, Birdie, and Mickey. |
| What caused her to tell her history? | Mickey asked why she wouldn't go to church. |
| What was Birdie ' s response to hearing of her pain? | Everyone suffers. Christians to not suffer alone. God uses our suffering for good. |
| When does Margaret finally begin attending Birdie ' s church? | She goes to Birdie's funeral. |
| How does Birdie die? | Mackey has a heart attack while driving, and she is killed instantly in the accident. |
| What is revealed at her funeral? | Birdie never had a mother to love her. She was raised in an orphanage and a series of foster homes. She was never able to have children, and experienced a failed adoption. |
| How does Margaret defend herself after telling of Birdie's death? | She reminds the reader that she always referred to Birdie in the past tense, commented at the beginning on the sadness of her story, and mentioned Birdie ' s proximity to the graveyard. |
| What does Margaret quote as her theme? | Now remain faith, hope, and love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. |
| To what would Margaret attribute the healing of her deepest wounds? | Love, revealed by her first and greatest friend, Birdie. |
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