CHAPTERS 13-16
STUDENT WORKSHEET PACKET ANSWER KEY

 

VOCABULARY

1. delightful or delicious:  very pleasing, especially to the taste
2. souvenirs:  objects given or kept as a reminder of or in memory of somebody or something
3. cosmetic treatment of the feet, for example, the application of nail polish
4. impossible to attain:  impossible to reach or achieve
5. humiliate and degrade:  to reduce somebody to a much lower status in a humiliating way
6. enormous:  very large or very great
7. very unhappy:  feeling or showing sadness and lack of hope, especially because of disappointment
8. excessively eager to please or to obey all instructions
9. irritable:  bad-tempered, irritable, or tending to complain
10. slowing of disease:  a lessening of the symptoms of a disease, or their temporary reduction or disappearance
11. somebody telling the future:  somebody who attempts to predict the future
12. laugh loudly:  to laugh loudly and raucously
13.  question somebody thoroughly:  to question somebody thoroughly, often in an aggressive or threatening manner and especially as part of a formal investigation, for example, in a police station or courtroom
14. scented plant:  a tropical or subtropical climbing plant with fragrant white, yellow, or red flowers.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. Answers may vary
2. Answers may vary (i.e. the candle was set behind the MSG can in Hoo's kitchen)
3. Sydelle because she went into the kitchen to compliment the chef
4. He is a bookie
5. She wants attention on her own terms
6. Crow lost her clues
7. She put a note in Angela's bag saying "...the devil with the doctor"
8. Sam may be relaying the tragedy in which Violet killed herself because she wanted to marry George Theodorakis

9. Angela is attracted to Theo but is supposed to marry Denton. Violet was attracted to George but was engaged to someone else.

10. At her bridal shower. The gift box with fireworks exploded and burnt her hands

11. A person may appear to be good and innocent, but evil could lurk inside.

 

CHAPTERS 13-16

STUDENT QUIZ ANSWER KEY

 

VOCABULARY

1. scrumptious
8. obsequious
2. mementoes
9. peevishly
3. pedicure
10. remission
4. unattainable
11. soothsayer
5. demeaning
12. guffaw
6. elephantine
13. interrogate
7. dejectedly
14. jasmine

WRITTEN EXPRESSION

1. She wants attention on her own terms
2. Turtle confronts Angela and Sydelle overhears the conversation
3. She put a note in Angela's bag saying "...the devil with the doctor". Answers may vary for the second part of question
4. Angela is attracted to Theo but is supposed to marry Denton. Violet was attracted to George but was engaged to someone else.
5. A person may appear to be good and innocent, but evil could lurk inside.

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