Walk Two Moons

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Study Guide chapters 39-44

Chapter 39

1.  How does Mrs. Winterbottom look now?

2.  What is Mr. Winterbottom’s initial reaction to Mrs. Winterbottom and Mike?

3.  Who is Mike?

4.  What is Mr. Winterbottom’s reaction once he knows the whole story of Mrs. Winterbottom and Mike?

5.  Has your opinion of Mr. and Mrs. Winterbottom changed? Explain.

Chapter 40

1.  Why did Mrs. Partridge leave the messages?

2.  What does spitting give Sal the courage to do? What does she learn?

Chapter 41

1.  In thinking about Gram and her mother and “what might have been,” Sal decides “a person couldn’t stay locked up in the house like Phoebe and her mother had tried to do at first. A person had to go out and do things and see things.” Do you agree or disagree with Sal? Why?

2.  Why does Gramps encourage Sal to drive to Coeur D’Alene? What does Sal have to do it?

Chapter 42

1.  What do you think Sal hoped to find in the bus?

2.  Sal finally tells us on page 267 that her mother is dead. What took so long? What did it take for her to admit this?

3.  Why doesn’t Sal look too closely into the willow tree?

Chapter 43

1.  Why does the sheriff take Sal to Coeur D’Alene? What does this say about the kind of person he is?

2.  Explain Mrs. Cadaver’s story in relation to Sal’s mother.

3.  Why was Sal’s father afraid to tell Sal about how he met Margaret?

Chapter 44

1.  Why do you think Sal and her father moved back to Bybanks?

2.  Explain Sal and Gramps’ “moccasin game.”

3.  How was the trip to Lewiston a gift for Sal from Gram and Gramps?

4.  How did Phoebe’s family help Sal?

5.  What three things is Sal jealous of? Why?