A Long Way from Chicago

Chapter Questions

Chapter 1

Define:
Chicago Typewriter      Reputation       Tykes      Privy        Pauper         Prohibition         Concrete overshoes

Questions:

1. Where does the story take place?

2. Describe Grandma Dowdel.

3. Describe Effie Wilcox.

4. Who is telling the story and when is the story being told?
 

Chapter 2

Matching

runt         consolation         versus     sneer     rein
shriek     strop                     hymn     jaunt     sanitary    torpedo

Match each definition with a word.

___________1. a line or strap fastened to a bit on each side for controlling an animal

___________2. to cry out in a high-pitched voice

___________3. the act or an instance of consoling, the state of being consoled

___________4. to smile or laugh with expressions of scorn

___________5. a religious song

___________6. an unusually small person or animal

___________7. a small firework that explodes when thrown against a hard object

___________8. free from filth, infection, or dangers to health

___________9. a short trip for pleasure

___________10. a usually leather band for sharpening a razor
 

Complete Sentences:

1. Who was in Grandma's kitchen watching her clean the shotgun?

2. How did Joe find the Cowgills?

3. Why was Mary Alice not yet over last year's summer visit?

4. Why did Grandma turn out all the lights in the house?

5. Where did she make Joe run to?

6. What did Grandma do once the Cowgill brothers were in her kitchen?

7. How did Grandma get Mr. Cowgill to strop his boys?

8. Why did Effie Wilcox come to use Grandma's privy?

9. What was the explosion that was heard in the night?

10. What lies did Grandma tell Ernie?
 

Chapter 3

1. Whose boat did Grandma steal?

2. Who came to threaten Grandma?

3. Where did Grandma take Joe and Mary Alice?

4. What had swept over the nation in 1931?

5. What did Grandma do that was illegal while they were fishing?

6. Who was the old woman Grandma went to cook for and feed?

7. What did Grandma use against the sheriff when he threatened to take her in?

8. What happened when the snake jumped into the boat?

9. Why did Grandma set up the card table with beer and cook more fish that night when they got home from fishing?

10. Who were the men that were walking through town hungry?
 

Chapter 4

1. What was Grandma famous for?

2. Why did Grandma ask for a ride in the plane?

3. Why did Mrs. Weidenbach come to visit Grandma?

4. What did Joe want to do more than anything at the fair?

5. Why did Grandma send Joe to the store?

6. Why couldn't Mrs. Weidenbach enter her own recipe in the fair?

7. What did she tell Mary Alice to do?

8. Who was Mrs. L.J. Weidenbach?

9. What did Grandma do when she discovered there was another gooseberry pie?

10. What ribbon did Grandma win?
 

Chapter 5

1. Who did Vandalia run away with?


2. What did the old woman with the bonnet and mule want from the waitress at the coffee house?


3. When Joe said "it was love at first sight" what was he looking at?


4. Why did Effie Wilcox leave town?

5. How old was the waitress (Vandalia)?

6. How did Joe get his two dollars to take the driving lesson in the Terraplane car?

7. Why was Mary Alice hiding Vandalia in her room?

8. What was the only thing that reminded Joe and Mary Alice of Chicago when they were at Grandma's?


9. What was the agreement with the banker and Grandma?


10. What prank did Grandma pull at the church sale?
 

Chapter 6

Chapter 7