Pay It Forward:

All of your answers MUST be written in COMPLETE sentences! Also remember that you must FLIPthe question first.

  1. What is the student’s first impression of Mr. St. Clair the social studies teacher?
  2. What is Trevor McKinney’s first impression of Mr. St. Clair?
  3. What is Mr. St. Clair’s first impression of Trevor McKinney?
  4. Why is Mr. St. Clair so scared?
  5. Describe in detail what you think Mr. St. Clair looks like.
  6. What is Arlene so upset about?
  7. What does Trevor think is not true?
  8. Who do you think Arlene is?
  9. Why is Jerry waiting in line?
  10. Why does Jerry think he deserves Trevor’s Money?
  11. Where is Trevor getting the money he plans to give away?
  12. What are the first two things Trevor offers Jerry?
  13. What is Trevor’s Mom’s response to finding Jerry in her house?
  14. What is Jerry doing at Trevor’s house at 3 am?
  15. What reason does he give Trevor’s mom for what he is doing?
  16. Why does Arlene go to see Mr. St. Clair?
  17. Does Mr. St. Clair know what pay it forward is?
  18. What is Arlene’s reaction to Mr. St. Clair’s class assignment?
  19. What is Trevor’s opinion of what is going on? (Diary entry)
  20. Why does Arlene take Jerry to the garage?
  21. Once again Arlene asked Jerry what “paying forward” means, what response does he give her?
  22. So what does “paying forward” mean?
  23. What does Trevor ask Mr. St. Clair at the start of class?
  24. What does Trevor do at the end of class that shocks Mr. St. Clair?
  25. Why is Arlene mad at Mr. St. Clair?
  26. What was Mr. St. Clair’s reaction to her anger?
  27. So what is Trevor’s big plan? How does paying it forward really work?
  28. What is Trevor’s opinion of how the dinner went with Mr. St. Clair?
  29. What is Mrs. Greenberg’s problem?
  30. How had Trevor helped Mrs. Greenberg?
  31. Is paying it forward anything like random acts of kindness?
  32. What type of pay it forward plan does Mrs. Greenberg come up with?
  33. Why does Arlene slap Trevor?
  34. Why do you think Trevor ask his mom to take him to see Jerry? Where is Jerry and why is he there?
  35. What happened to Mrs. Greenberg? Was she able to pay it forward?
  36. How is Trevor’s project going so far? Do you think it is a success or Failure at this point?
  37. Why does Trevor call Mr. St. Clair?
  38. Why is Trevor so upset about his project?
  39. What do you think is the significance of Mr. St. Clair apologizing to Arlene? Why do you think he does it?
  40. What is Matt’s problem?
  41. How is Ida Greenberg able to help Matt even after her death? Is she truly able to pay it forward?
  42. How did Matt decide to use the money that Mrs. Greenberg left him? Do you think he will pay it forward?
  43. Do you think at this point that Trevor realizes he has touched so many people with his project?
  44. How many kids in Trevor’s class did the extra credit assignment? What were their projects about?
  45. What did the class think about Trevor’s project idea?
  46. Why does Arlene go to visit Mr. St. Clair?
  47. Why does Mr. St. Clair show up at Arlene’s house?
  48. What does it mean to make an honest woman out of her? Do you think Reuben will?
  49. What happens the first time Matt tries to pay it forward? What does he decide about the person he tried to help?
  50. What is Trevor’s opinion of what is going on between Reuben and Arlene?
  51. What does Arlene tell Loretta about the guy she was seeing? What is her plan for seeing him again?
  52. Why does Arlene take Trevor to see Reuben?
  53. How does Reuben and Arlene’s next date go? What does Reuben ask her?
  54. What was Trevor’s reaction to Reuben and Arlene’s news?
  55. What is Reuben concerned about doing now that he and Arlene are happy?
  56. So has Trevor’s project been a success for him personally so far?
  57. What happens on October 19, 1992?
  58. Who is Chris?
  59. What does the person on the phone tell Chris?
  60. Who does Chris interview? What does he learn from the interview?
  61. Who is Chris’s next interview with and what does he learn from it?
  62. After both of his interviews what does Chris decide to do?
  63. What happened between Reuben and Arlene to break them up?
  64. Why did Arlene stay with her husband?
  65. After her confession what does Reuben do?
  66. Who calls Chris in the middle of the night? What does the caller tell him about paying it forward?
  67. Does Mrs. Greenburg’s son understand why his Mother paid it forward instead of leaving everything she owned to him?
  68. What is Chris’s reaction to meeting Trevor? What is Trevor doing when he meets him?
  69. To this point what does Trevor think about his project and its success?
  70. Why does Trevor go to visit Reuben?
  71. What is Reuben’s reaction to Trevor’s questions about what only can he do?
  72. Why does Arlene go to see Reuben? Why has she waited so long?
  73. What is the outcome of her visit?
  74. Who calls Chris? Why does she call?
  75. Who is Chris trying to hunt down after his phone call?
  76. When he looks at the board in Mr. St. Clair’s class, what does it say?
  77. What does Trevor think about Chris finding him?
  78. What is everyone waiting to watch at Trevor’s house?
  79. Does Reuben ever show up?
  80. What is so important that Chris fly’s back to California to tell Arlene?
  81. What is Trevor and Arlene’s reaction to the news?
  82. Why is Trevor so excited?
  83. Who is Frank?
  84. What do Ruben and Arlene talk about?
  85. What does Trevor tell the President his favorite thing about Washington is so far?
  86. On the way to the hotel what does Trevor tell them he needs to do?
  87. How did Trevor help Harry?
  88. What happens to Trevor because of is random act of kindness?
  89. Why do all the people show up at City Hall?
  90. How does the book end?