Sounder Questions Make Sure That You Restate Each Question and Back up at Least Half Of

Sounder Questions
Make sure that you restate each question and back up at least half of your questions with direct quotes.

Chapter 1
1. Explain where the boys’ father had gotten Sounder.
2. Describe when school began and ended.
3. How was getting to school a difficult task?
4. Why didn’t his father like hunting when it was windy?
5. Explain why the family collected walnuts.
6. Describe when his mother would hum.

Chapter 2
1. Describe the events that unfolded on the third day the boy woke to the smell of ham bone and pork sausage.
2. What happened when Sounder chased the wagon?
3. Explain why Sounder was under the porch.
4. What did the boy find on the road?
5. Describe the wish the boy made at night.
6. What did the boy do just before he ate his supper?

Chapter 3
1. On page 36, she mentions dinnertime and suppertime. Infer the difference between the two.
2. Why did the boy leave the children alone inside while his mother was gone?
3. Explain what the boy was trying to find.

Chapter 4
1. What did his mother suggest had happened to Sounder?
2. Explain what his mother said after the boy returned from searching the woods.
3. Describe why the boy traveled to town with his mother.
4. Why did the boy wish his mother would be given a book?
5. Explain what the red faced man did with what the boy brought and why.
6. Describe the conversation the boy had with his father.

Chapter 5
1. What was the important thing that the boy failed to ask his father?
2. Describe what the boy heard on the porch one morning.
3. What did the boy’s mother hear about his father?

Chapter 6
1. Where did the boy begin working?
2. Explain why the boy wanted to go on a journey.
3. In the boys wanderings, what were the words he found men used the most?
4. Describe the wonderful thing the boy accomplished during his search.

Chapter 7
1. Explain the compulsion the boy had.
2. Why did the boy always want the convicts to stand during his journeys?
3. Describe what occurred with a guard while the boy watched the men.
4. What did the boy find in a box of trash that a man had tossed into a barrel?
5. Explain how the school days ended.
6. Who did the boy meet and visit with on his journey?

Chapter 8
1. Describe why his mother agreed to let the boy leave.
2. Explain when the boy returned and why.
3. Why was Sounder barking?
4. Describe what had happened to the boys father.
5. Why did Sounder come scratching at the door alone?