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Walk Two Moons 2
6th Grade ELA: Walk Two Moons Novel Study - Chapters 31-end
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In the end of the story, who is coming to visit Sal soon? | Ben, Mrs. Cadaver, Phoebe, Mrs. Partridge |
| In the end of the story, what does Sal regularly practice? | She practices walking in other people's moccasins. She routinely tries to imagine how she would feel if she was one of her friends or family members. |
| In the end of the story, what has Sal finally come to terms with? | Sal ends being content with what she has, accepting of what has been and knowing her mother loved her, and she anticipates what is to come. |
| Where do Sal and her dad live now? | They moved back to Bybanks to live on the farm. |
| What was the gift Gram and Gramps planned for Sal? Why did they choose that gift? | The road trip was their gift to her. They wanted her to be able to walk in her mother's moccasins to see what she had seen and felt on her last trip. |
| What was beneath Sal's closet floorboards that she told her dad they had to go back for in the beginning of the story? | her mom's hair and post cards |
| What was Sal jealous of? | She is jealous her mom wanted more children. She is jealous of the girl Ben wrote about in his journal. She is jealous Phoebe's mom came back and hers didn’t. |
| What did Sal receive from Ben after she moved? | Letters |
| Who continued to teach Sal driving lessons? | Gramps |
| Why did Sal's dad think Sal would dislike Mrs. Margaret Cadaver? | Because she survived, and her mom did not. |
| What did Mrs. Cadaver say when Sal asked if she was going to marry her dad? | Mrs. Cadaver said it's too early for that. She said Sal's dad wasn't ready to love someone else. |
| Sal returned to the hospital with the sheriff. What did she find out? | Gram died |
| Gramps finally wrote Gram a _________. | love letter |
| Who was the lone survivor on the bus crash? | Mrs. Cadaver |
| Who did the lone survivor sit by on the bus? | Sal's mom |
| How did Sal find out the lone survivor was the only survivor? | Mrs. Cadaver told her when Sal visited her after Phoebe's mom's return. |
| Who did Sal's mom became friends with while they were on the bus? | Mrs. Cadaver |
| What did Sal's mom tell Mrs. Cadaver? | Sal, Sal's dad, and the farm |
| What did Sal realize when she heard what Mrs. Cadaver and her mom talked about? | She realized her mom was missing her and her dad. |
| What did Sal realize at the singing tree? | She knows in a way her mother is alive in this place |
| What happened to Sal's mom? | She died in the bus accident |
| Why did Sal think she was going to jail? | She was not old enough to drive her Gramps car and the sheriff questioned her. |
| Did Sal find what she was looking for while searching the bus? | No, she did not find what she was looking for on the bus. |
| Where did the sheriff take Sal first? | He took her to her mother's grave. |
| What did Sal arrive in time for at the grave? | her mother's birthday |
| What happened at the graveyard that made Sal feel better? | She heard a bird song and believed it was her mother singing in the trees. |
| What did the man tell Sal at the overlook that she already knew? | A bus went off the road there a year ago |
| What did Sal keep telling herself as she drove up the treacherous road? | "I can do this.” |
| What did Sal do the night Gram and Gramps stayed in the hospital? | She took Gramps' car and headed to Lewiston. |
| What did Sal begin to wonder about Gram and Gramps? | If they took her on this road trip so Sal could go out and do things. |
| Gramps refused to leave Gram's side. What does he tell the intern he will have to do for Gramps to leave her side? | The intern will have to chop his arm off. |
| What happened to Gram? | She had a stroke. |
| What did Sal and Gramps notice about Gram? | She was looking a little gray. |
| What gift did Ben bring Sal? | a chicken named Blackberry |
| What did Sal understand after she spent time with Mrs. Cadaver? | She understood why her dad liked to be with her. |
| Why did Mrs. Partridge think that she met Phoebe's brother? | Their faces felt similar. |
| Why did Mrs. Partridge say she has been leaving the messages? | She wanted them to be "grandiful" surprises like fortune cookies. |
| Who has been leaving the mysterious messages on the Winterbottom's porch? | Mrs. Partridge |
| Who was placing a white envelope on her porch when Phoebe and Sal left Phoebe's house? | Mrs. Partridge |
| How did Mr. Winterbottom respond to Mrs. Winterbottom's announcement? | He was happy and could not stop jumping up and down. |
| Who is Mike the lunatic? | Mrs. Winterbottom's son |
| How was Mrs. Winterbottom different when she returned? | She cut her hair short. She was wearing stylish clothes. She was wearing makeup. |
| What did Mr. Winterbottom and Prudence do to prepare for Mrs. Winterbottom's homecoming? | They spent all night and morning cleaning the house. |
| How long is one moon cycle? | About 29.5 days |
| How does Gram pass away? | A stroke |
| How did Sal's dad meet Margaret Cadaver? | He met her at the car crash where Sugar died. |
| Who does "the lunatic" turn out to be? | Phoebe's biological brother, Mike Bickle |
| Why was Ben Finney living with his cousin Mary Lou's family? | because Ben's mom was in the mental hospital |
| Why do Sal & Phoebe visit the university/college? | to find "the lunatic" |
| At the end of the novel, why does Sal say she's jealous of Phoebe? | Because Phoebe's mom came back and she has a mom again but Sal's did not so her mom is gone forever |
| Who was the person leaving behind the cryptic messages at the Winterbottoms' home? | Mrs. Partridge |
| How does the book come full circle in the end? | Sal moves back to Bybanks, Kentucky. |
| What game did Gramps and Sal play toward the end of the novel? | Pretended to be other people to see life from their perspective. |
| What does this saying mean: "We never know the worth of water until the well runs dry."? | the phrase "We never know the worth of water until the well runs dry" means that people often don't fully appreciate something valuable until it is gone or becomes scarce; essentially, we only realize how important something is once we no longer have easy access to it. |