S.O.T.M Lesson 8

"And Lechauzes? You want those evil owls climbing all over you while you are sleeping your eyes out?' Velia teased Delia in the back seat"(90).

What words in this sentence best help in understanding the meaning of lechuzas?

Part A "She turned away and disappeared into the darkness, leaving me alone with her cryptic words."(85)

Use a print or online dictionary. Below, copy the meaning of cryptic as they are used in this sentence.

But I didn't have the time to decipher their meaning."(85) Use a print or online dictionary.

Below, copy the meaning of the word decipher as they are used in this sentence.

Part B Using the definition rewrite cryptic from Part A in your own words.

Part B Using the definition rewrite decipher from Part A in your own words.

"I passed the house and inconspicuously parked next door, just in the front of the neighbor's fence away from the lights strung on the trees all around the dead man's yard."(86)

What phrase in this sentence best helps in understanding the meaning if inconspicuously?

• Parked next door

• just in front of the neighbor's

• away from the lights

• around the dead man's yard

"They had all vacated the car long before I was free from the dog and able to open my door and crawl out."(81)

What does vacated most likely mean in this sentence

• left

• cleaned

• forgotten

• opened