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Homecoming

Characters

Question: Who is the novel's protagonist?
Answer: Dicey is a thirteen-year-old girl with a haircut
that makes her look like a boy and a fierce determination to survive and keep her family
together.

Question: Who Dicey’s six-year-old brother?
Answer: Sammy Tillerman

Question: Name the two pair of characters that helped the Tillermans' when Mr. Rudyard.
Answer: Claire and Will

Question: Name the two characters that helped the Tillermans' get across the bay.
Answer: Tom and Jerry

Question: Name the two characters that they first met at the park and were teenagers.
Answer: Edie and Lou

Vocabulary

Question: What does tentative mean?
Answer: Please use this word in an acceptable sentence.

Question: Define raucous
Answer: rough-sounding The crows made some raucous calls this morning.

Question: Define sullenly
Answer: glumly Shannon felt sullenly after she knew SFA was over for the day.

Question: Define hostile
Answer: unfriendly MM apologized for his hostile comment

Question: Define grueling
Answer: Physically or mentally exhausting Mr. Hamel's students were put through a grueling session of SFA

Themes, Motifs, and Symbols

Question: Give us one theme in the book
Answer: family as home

Question: Give us one symbol from the book.
Answer: Sailboats; honeysuckle; song

Question: Give another theme from the story.
Answer: The connection between freedom and abandonment

Question: Please give one symbol from the book.
Answer: Money; theft; fighting

Question: What would be our theme from SFA?
Answer: Persistence respect caring

Chapter Questions

Question: Why does Dicey lie to the policeman in the parking lot in Peewauket?
Answer: She is afraid he will want to search for and institutionalize Momma

Question: Why does the inscription on the gravestone near the Connecticut River affect
Dicey so deeply?
Answer: It resonates with her understanding of the transience of life

Question: Why did Momma and Francis Verricker not marry?
Answer: Momma saw that her own parents� marriage was deeply unhappy and did not want
to replicate their unhappiness

Question: Why does Gram finally agree to take the children in?
Answer: Dicey challenges her to face the fact that taking them is the right thing to do

Question: How does Dicey react to her grandmother's attitude?
Answer: Dicey stands up to her grandmother.

Random Thoughts

Question: What does Dicey find in the barn and what do you think it foreshadows?
Answer: A sailboat. Dicey will find a home with grandmother.

Question: Explain this passage:
"Dicey noticed from above what could not be seen from below. There were strong twisted
wires running around the tree. �Why is it wired?� she asked. �Because paper mulberries
are fragile,� her grandmother answered. �It�s the way they spread out at the top, it�s the way
they grow. If you didn�t brace it, the
Answer: Accept appropriate answers.

Question: What is so interesting about the AMOUNT of characters and how does this play out in the story as the Tillermans' travel from place to place.
Answer: Pairs of characters...

Question: Explain this passage:

"What good did it do, worrying and making plans, and more plans, if the first plans
failed. It was like money. If you had it, good. I you didn�t, then you had to find a way to
earn it. There was nothing to be gained by fretting over maybes."
Answer: Accept appropriate answers.

Question: Who would say is known as "The Resilient Child"? Explain...
Answer: Accept appropriate answers.