2nd Chapter of "A Year Down Yonder"

Which area celebrated Halloween louder and longer?

• Chicago

• Grandma Dowdel's town

Which buildings were a target of vandalism during Halloween?

• The school

• Graveyards

• People's privies

• Old Man Nyquist's shed

What happened to Bootsie, Mary Alice's cat?

• Somebody locked her in a box.

• Somebody tied a rusty old can to her stomach.

• Somebody mailed her back to Chicago.

• Somebody stole her from Mary Alice.

What did Grandma Dowdel cook on her stove that hurt Mary Alice's eyes and made it hard for Grandma to breathe?

• Homemade glue

• Pumpkin Pie

• Cherry Pie

• Biscuits and Gravy

What did the boys drop as they tried to escape the hot glue and trip wire Grandma Dowdel had set up to catch them?

• Fireworks and Toilet Paper

• A pocket knife and a hand saw

• A screwdriver and a hammer

• Nails and a hammer

What literary term do you recognize in the following sentence: "She was like a big, bushy-tailed squirrel in an apron, gathering against the long winter."

• Hyperbole

• A metaphor

• Personification

• A simile

What did Grandma Dowdel use to knock the pecans out of the tree?

• Old Man Nyquist's fancy car with a spare tire stuck to the front.

• Old Man Nyquist's tractor with a spare tire stuck to the front.

• Old Man Nyquist's RV.

• Old Man Nyquist's little red wagon.

Grandma Dowdel didn't know how to drive.

• True

• False

Where did Grandma Dowdel get the pumpkins from?

• The store.

• The Pensinger's pumpkin patch.

• Old Man Nyquist's pumpkin patch.

• The principal's pumpkin patch.

What did Grandma make with the pecans and the pumpkins?

• Homemade Tarts

• Homemade Cake

• Homemade Pie

• Homemade Muffins