Soft Rain Ch 6: To the Stockade

What does the word "din" mean?

• Darkness

• A loud noise

• Quiet

• A crowded area

What does the word "seize" mean?

• take hold of suddenly

• let go of suddenly

• walk away from

• shut down

What does translate mean?

• to move

• to complicate things

• to put into a different language or interpret

• to take away

Who is Old Roving Man?

• Grandmother's brother

• An old man who lives in the woods

• Soft Rain's Grandfather

• Green Fern's father

What did Old Roving Man and Grandmother used to do together?

• Bake bread

• Grow Selu

• Tell stories to each other

• Make dolls for their grandchildren

Why wouldn't Old Roving Man eat or drink?

• because the white men were telling him to

• because he wasn't hungry

• because he didn't like the food that he was offered

• because he was tired

Where are the soldiers taking Soft Rain and her mother?

• to search for food and water

• to find Father and Hawk Boy

• to the stockade and then west

• to a new school

What is a stockade?

• a field of corn

• a line of tall posts that are stuck in the ground

• a line of barrels filled with water

• a bedroom

What could Soft Rain hear coming from inside the stockade?

• fun and games

• children playing

• arguing

• low, sad cries

Where did we last see Hawk Boy and Father?

• Back at home working in the field

• In the stockade

• In one of the wagons being pulled by the oxen

• At home preparing dinner