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1 Walk Two Moons Reading Questions Chapters 1 & 2 1. How old was Sal? 2. Where had Sal spent most of her life? 3. When she and her father moved, what was Sal able to take with her? 4. Whose face did Sal see in an upstairs window? 5. Did Sal and Phoebe Winterbottom become friends? 6. Why had Sal's father begun to chip away at a plaster wall in the living room? 7. What was behind the plaster wall? 8. What state did Sal's grandparents come from to pick her up? 9. Did Sal want to see her mother? Explain. 10. Whose job was it to read the map on the trip to Idaho? 11. About how many miles was the trip from Ohio to Idaho? 12. One reason Sal was going on the trip was so her father could be alone with someone. Who was that person? 13. Sal believed that if she got to Idaho before a certain date, her mother would come home. What was this special date or occasion? 14. What was Sal's real name? 15. To which Indian tribe did her grandmother belong? 16. Where did Sal's name come from? 17. Did Sal tell her grandparents about Phoebe? Chapters 3 & 4 1. How did Margaret Cadaver treat Sal when they first met? 2. Were Phoebe and Sal in the same class at school? 3. Describe Sal's hair. 4. At school, did Phoebe talk to friends? Explain. 5. Describe Phoebe's eye and hair color. 6. What was Sal afraid of (if anything)? 7. What did Phoebe compliment Sal about? 8. Were Sal's Pickford grandparents and her Hiddle grandparents alike or different? Explain.

2 9. Did both Sal's grandmother Pickford and Sal's mother have Indian names? 10. Who was Margaret Cadaver's mother? 11. Did Phoebe seem to like Mrs. Partridge? Explain. 12. How long had Margaret Cadaver and Mrs. Partridge lived next door to Phoebe? 13. Who knew (if anyone) that Mrs. Partridge was blind? 14. What fruit made Sal think of her mother? 15. What did Margaret Cadaver's last name mean? 16. Did Phoebe think that something bad had happened to Mr. Cadaver? Explain. Chapters 5, 6 & 7 1. What happened when Sal's grandparents drove to Washington DC two years before? 2. Why were Gram and Gramps stopped by the police in Philadelphia? 3. How did Gramps help the damsel in distress at the rest stop? 4. Gramps called something "snakes" but they were really this. 5. How did Gram pronounce Phoebe's name? 6. Would you describe Phoebe's parents as loud, disagreeable, or polite? 7. What did Sal feel that Mrs. Winterbottom didn't like? 8. What did Sal think of Mr. Winterbottom? 9. Phoebe believed that Margaret Cadaver killed her husband, and then did what? 10. What did Sal remember about her mother? 11. Why did Sal and her mother go to the fields to find her father? 12. What did Sal expect her mother to do after they found her father? 13. What did Sal's mother love? 14. Why did Sal's mother cry? 15. What was Sugar Bindle's gift to her husband and daughter? 16. While she was listening to Sal's story, what did Gram miss? 17. From the beginning of the trip, what did Sal think she should do? 18. What did Sal realize several weeks after her mother left? 19. What happened after Sal and her grandparents left Chicago? 20. What was meaningful about the route that Sal and her grandparents took to Idaho?

3 Chapters 8 & 9 1. What or who was Mrs. Winterbottom worried about coming to her house one day? 2. Who was the girl Gram once knew who reminded her of Phoebe? 3. Who was upset when she found out a young man had come to the house asking to see her? 4. Who took a nap on top of the garage? 5. Who did Ben Finley kiss on the collarbone? 6. Who didn't Mrs. Winterbottom want to know about the young boy who had come to the door? 7. Who didn't think Mary Lou Finney's parents had much control over things? 8. Who was a potential lunatic to Phoebe? 9. Who was Mary Lou Finney's cousin? 10. Who had bright pink circles on his cheeks? 11. Who did Phoebe and Sal find lying on the couch dabbing her eyes with a tissue? 12. Who thought the way Mr. and Mrs. Finney acted was nice? 13. Who read a book while lying in the bathtub with all his clothes on? 14. Who had an older sister and three brothers? 15. What did Ben Finney call Sal when he showed her his drawing? 16. What was the message? 17. Who was about 16 or 17 years old? 18. Who pretended her mother was home when the stranger came to the door? 19. Where was the message found? 20. What did Sal's father say he once wanted to fill the house with? Chapters 10 & Did Gram say Mrs. Winterbottom sounded happy or unhappy? 2. What did Gram say as a reaction to the activity in Madison? 3. What did Sal's mother send all along her trip to Idaho? 4. Did Sal's mother like the term "Native American"? Explain. 5. What did Sal think before she saw Gram dancing with the Indians? 6. Were the girls sure who the messages were for? Explain. 7. Did Phoebe enjoy the company of Mary Lou's brothers? 8. Who did Sal see at the drugstore?

4 9. Why did Ben offer to walk home with Phoebe and Sal? 10. What did Sal feel after Ben stopped her from falling and when he rested his hand on her arm? 11. Did Phoebe's family hug each other a lot? 12. What color was Mrs. Cadaver's hair? What color and kind of car did she drive? 13. Did Sal flinch when her father hugged her? Chapters 12, 13 & According to Gram, what did the second message that Phoebe's family received mean? 2. When Sal told her grandparents about flinching and then hugging her dad, what did Gram do? 3. In South Dakota, where did Gramps take a detour? 4. What did Sal and her grandparents do in Pipestone, Minnesota? 5. What had the sign in the lobby at Injun Joe's Peace Palace Motel been changed to? 6. Why was the marriage bed precious to Gramps? 7. When did Gram agree to marry Gramps? 8. Why did Gramps cry after he carried Gram into their house? 9. What did Sal think about Mr. Birkway? 10. What did Mary Lou Finney not want Mr. Birkway to do? 11. Why didn't Sal have a journal for Mr. Birkway? 12. Why did Margaret Cadaver work odd hours? 13. Watching her work in the garden, what did Phoebe say about Margaret? 14. Who was the man who got out of the car and hugged Mrs. Cadaver? 15. Why did Mrs. Cadaver move the rhododendron bush according to Phoebe? 16. What was something that was NOT frightening that Margaret had in her house? 17. How did Sal's father act around Margaret? 18. What had Sal's father told her about Margaret? 19. How did Mrs. Winterbottom look when she came back from shopping?

5 20. What did Sal wonder about Mrs. Winterbottom? 21. What did Margaret send Sal? 22. What didn't Sal want to hear? Chapters 15 & What did Gram, Gramps, and Sal sleep under? 2. Who was carrying a large knife? 3. Where did Gram, Gramps, Sal, and the boy spend the night? 4. What bit Gram on the leg? 5. Where was it very hot? 6. What was the boy's name? 7. Why was Gram released from the hospital? 8. Who cut her hair a week before she left? 9. What did the boy say was private property? 10. What did the boy take out of Gramps' pants pocket? 11. What did Grams tell Sal to give the boy? 12. Whose hair did the boy like? 13. What did Gramps take off before he got in the water? 14. Who threw a rock and embedded it into a knothole on a willow tree? 15. What did the whispers that Sal heard begin to say? 16. Who went to Idaho the day after he learned Sugar Hiddle wasn't coming back? 17. Why didn't Gramps like the hospital bed? 18. Who sucked the poison from Gram's leg? 19. Gram said that finding one of these outside the hospital was a good sign.

6 Chapters 17 & Why was Phoebe upset with Sal? 2. Could Sal go live with her mother if something happened to her father? Explain. 3. Why did Phoebe become angry with her mother? 4. Could Prudence see her mother's sadness? Explain. 5. What was the third message? 6. Was Sal's father an only child? 7. Where did Sal's father prefer to work? 8. What did Sal's father have a natural gift for doing? 9. Why did Sal's mother leave? 10. What did Sal's father continue to bring home for Sugar after she left? 11. What did name did Sugar want to be called? 12. Why did Sal throw temper tantrums and refuse to leave the farm? 13. What did Sal's father agree to do with the farm in Bybanks instead of selling it? 14. Why did Sal's father feel he had to leave the farm? Chapters 19 & Who did Sal try to tell about Mrs. Cadaver killing and burying her husband? 2. What did Sal hope that Mr. Birkway would do to Margaret? 3. What kind of stories did Sal's mother like? 4. How did Mrs. Winterbottom look after she unlocked the door for the girls? 5. Were the police contacted about Phoebe's potential lunatic? Why or why not? 6. What did Sal think she saw on the tree? 7. Did Mr. Birkway read Sal's journal story right away? 8. How did Sal feel when Ben held her hand and traced her palm?

7 9. Could Ben read palms? 10. Where did Ben kiss Sal after he left her at Phoebe's door? 11. How did the notes that Mrs. Winterbottom left for her daughters make Phoebe feel? 12. What did Mrs. Winterbottom's note to her husband say? Chapters 21 & Sal's father says that a person wasn't one of these and couldn't be caged. 2. Where did Mrs. Winterbottom leave meals that she prepared for her family? 3. Who did Phoebe see in her garage with a flashlight? 4. What did Mr. Birkway have his class draw? 5. What did Phoebe wear to school that was wrinkled? 6. Who thought her mother had been kidnapped by a lunatic? 7. Where did Phoebe tell her friends at school that her mother had gone? 8. What did Sal think her mother might be suffering from? 9. What word did Mr. Winterbottom make Phoebe look up in the dictionary? 10. Who pretended to be sick so she could stay home from a school? 11. Who invited Sal to have dessert? 12. Who made the cheerleading team? 13. What was Phoebe sure that her mother wouldn't leave behind? 14. Who called some of Mr. Winterbottom's friends to see where she might have gone? 15. Who didn't believe that Mrs. Winterbottom had been kidnapped? 16. Whose drawing was identical to Sal's? 17. What did Sal's mother send from different places? 18. Who called Sal a goose? 19. Phoebe was sure that she was having one of these at school. 20. Who did Sal feel that she had won a little victory over? Chapters 23 & What about Gram worried Gramps? 2. What did the whispers say the closer Sal got to the badlands? 3. What was Sal's mother terrified of?

8 4. Why did Sal's mother go to Lewiston, Idaho? 5. Before which event did Sugar Hiddle want to know what she was like? 6. What couldn't Sal and her parents settle on concerning the baby? 7. What happened when Sal climbed the oak tree? 8. What happened to the baby that Sal's mother had? 9. Why did Sal think what happened to the baby was her fault? 10. Why did Sal's mother say the baby couldn't be dead? 11. Why did Sal's mother have to be taken to the hospital in the middle of the night? 12. What did Sal name the baby? 13. What happened to Sal's mother after she had the baby? 14. What happened to the stone that Sal threw across the gorge? 15. Why did Gram once leave Gramps? 16. Where did Gramps, Gram, and Sal sleep at the motel outside Wall, South Dakota? 17. What was the message that came while Phoebe's mother was away? 18. What did Phoebe think about the messages? 19. What did Phoebe look like when she had to answer questions about her mother? 20. Where was Sal's father when Phoebe and Sal were having dinner with Mary Lou? Chapters 25 & What did Phoebe caution the Finneys about eating too much of? 2. What kind of food was Phoebe accustomed to? 3. Sal realized that Phoebe was behaving badly after what happened? 4. What occurred to Sal that her mother might have wanted? 5. Did Phoebe's father call the police for help in finding his wife? 6. Did Phoebe expect Sal to make sacrifices for her while she was a guest? Explain or give examples. 7. Was Phoebe's visit a pleasant experience for Sal? Explain why or why not. 8. What did Sal wonder about her father when she threw temper tantrums? 9. Who did the Finneys remind Sal of when they were on the roof kissing? 10. What did Sal want to touch? 11. Where did Sal fall asleep, leaving the bed to Phoebe? 12. Did Sal try to comfort Phoebe when she cried? 13. What dream about her mother did Sal have?

9 Chapters 27 & What did Phoebe insist? 2. How did Sal feel sometimes? 3. Who did Sal's mother call on the phone? 4. Why did Phoebe want to call the police? 5. What didn't Phoebe want to wait for her father to do? 6. Why couldn't Phoebe sleep? 7. What did Phoebe argue with Ben about during her oral report? 8. What was the only good thing in Pandora's box? 9. What did Sal think that the one bad thing in the good box was? 10. In Sal's family, things seemed fine until what event? 11. How were things in Phoebe's family before the lunatic and the messages arrived? 12. What occurred to Sal regarding her mother's leaving? 13. What did the whispers command at the first sign of the Black Hills? 14. What did Gramps want to see in the Black Hills? 15. Why could Sal drive? 16. What did Sal's mother always want to see? 17. Who were the Black Hills sacred to? 18. How did Gram and Gramps seem at the end of their visit to Mt. Rushmore? 19. Where did Gramps want to stop in Wyoming? Chapters 29 & Who was upset by the poem that Mr. Birkway read? 2. What did Phoebe and Sal think the poem was about? 3. Who came to Phoebe's defense when the woman at the police station did not believe her? 4. Who did Sergeant Bickle return with after he left the room? 5. How did Phoebe's father look, and who did he apologize to? 6. What did Mr. Winterbottom do when Phoebe said her mother wouldn't leave without an explanation? 7. Was Mrs. Cadaver's door locked or unlocked? 8. What was in the room where Mrs. Partridge was crying? 9. Who did Mrs. Partridge say she had met?

10 10. What kinds of things did Sal keep? 11. What did Sal have the urge to do? 12. Why did Sal call Phoebe at daylight? Chapters 31 & What was the next message? 2. What did Sal accidentally kiss? 3. According to Beth Ann's journal, what did Mary Lou think that kisses tasted like? 4. How did the students react when Mr. Birkway read journal passages out loud? 5. Who was in the picture on Sergeant Bickle's desk? 6. What was Gram excited to see? 7. What did Sal pray about? 8. What did Gram and Gramps once have an awful argument about? 9. Who was Mr. Birkway's mother? 10. Who were twins? 11. Did any of the students have the courage to tell Mr. Birkway how much they hated the journals? Explain. 12. What did Ben and Beth Ann see in the picture that Mr. Birkway held up? 13. Who read Sal's journal about her mother and the blackberry kiss? 14. What did Mr. Birkway read about in Phoebe's journal? 15. Did Mr. Birkway enjoy the journal? Explain. 16. After the bell rang, who couldn't Sal find? Chapters 33, 34 & Why couldn't Gram go to sleep? 2. What did Mr. Birkway do before Sal could tell Phoebe what she knew about him? 3. What happened to Margaret's husband? 4. When did Mr. Partridge lose her sight? 5. When was Mrs. Cadaver on duty in the emergency room? 6. Who did Sal realize about the messages? 7. What was Gramps' pet name for Gram? 8. What did Gram want to do at Old Faithful? 9. Why did Gram cry?

11 10. What did Sal think about Montana? 11. What was Phoebe's plan when she and Sal tracked down Sergeant Bickle's son? 12. What did everyone want Mr. Bickle to do? 13. What did Mr. Bickle do regarding the journals? 14. What happened in the library with Ben and Sal? 15. How did Phoebe and Sal find out where Sergeant Bickle lived? 16. Who did Sal pretend to be when she called Sergeant Bickle? 17. Where was Mr. Bickle's son? 18. What was Sergeant Bickle's son's name? 19. What did Sergeant Bickle give Sal? Chapters 36, 37 & Who was Phoebe's mother bringing home with her? 2. Who rode the bus with Sal and Phoebe? 3. Which building did Sergeant Bickle's son live in? 4. Where was Ben going to visit someone in Chanting Falls? 5. In which town did Phoebe find her more and the lunatic? 6. Who answered the phone when Mrs. Winterbottom called? 7. Who did Phoebe ask to see in the hospital? 8. Who ran because she couldn't watch Phoebe and the lunatic? 9. What did Ben give Sal in the hospital? 10. Where was Ben's mother in the hospital? 11. Who was sitting on a bench with the lunatic? 12. Who wanted to throw rocks at Mrs. Winterbottom and the lunatic? 13. Whose behavior was a lot like that of Sal's mother when she came home from the hospital? 14. What did Mrs. Winterbottom and the lunatic do as Phoebe watched? 15. Who did Sal want to vanish (disappear)? 16. Who was Sal anxious to tell about Phoebe's mother? 17. Who was happy to hear about the kiss?

12 Chapters 39 & Did Phoebe tell her father about her mother and the lunatic? 2. Phoebe called Sal over to be a what? 3. Did Mrs. Winterbottom's appearance change while she was away? Explain. 4. How did Mrs. Winterbottom feel towards her husband? 5. Who was Mrs. Winterbottom's son? 6. Who found Mrs. Winterbottom? 7. How did Sal feel about the events taking place at Phoebe's house? 8. Whose hand did Mr. Winterbottom shake? 9. How did Phoebe feel about her mother? 10. Who did Phoebe and Sal see leaving a white envelope on the steps? 11. What day was it when Sal crossed the Montana border into Idaho? 12. Who had a cough and rattle in her chest? 13. How did Mrs. Partridge know that Mike was Phoebe's brother? 14. How did Sal react when she found out how Mrs. Cadaver met her father? 15. What did Ben give to Sal? What was it named? Chapters 41 & What did the doctor at the hospital in Coeur d'alene say was wrong with Gram? 2. Did Gramps stay with Gram or leave when she underwent tests? 3. What did Sal wonder if the snake bite had caused? 4. Did Gramps talk to Gram when she was unconscious? 5. What did Sal pray to when she drove along the highway to Lewiston? 6. How long did it take Sal to drive the 100 miles to Lewiston? 7. What did Sal look for at the first overlook on top of Lewiston Hill? 8. Describe the road that Sal took into Lewiston. 9. How many people survived after the bus accident a year or so ago? 10. Where did Sal go to explore the bus? 11. Where did the sheriff lead Sal? 12. What did Sal know when she saw her mother's name and the maple tree on the tombstone? 13. What did Sal do to the willow tree? 14. Where did Sal tell the sheriff her mother was singing?

13 Chapters 43 & Where did the sheriff take Sal? 2. Who or what did the sheriff remember? 3. Who was the person who survived the bus accident? 4. What did Sal tell Mrs. Cadaver about when they rode the bus together? 5. What did Sal's father talk about with Mrs. Cadaver when they talked for six hours? 6. What did Sal's father and Mrs. Cadaver begin to do? 7. What didn't Sal believe even after Mrs. Cadaver told her about the accident? 8. What did the note from Gramps say? 9. What did the sheriff do to or ask Gramps? 10. Where did Sal, her father, and Gramps move back to? 11. When Gloria came to see Gramps, what did Gramps do? 12. Who did Sal write to? 13. What did Gramps name his beagle puppy? 14. What did Sal and Gramps do while Sal practiced driving? 15. What did Gram and Gramps give Sal a chance to do through the trip to Idaho? 16. In order for her to accept her mother's death, what did Sal have to do? 17. Why did Sal know her father was right in not bringing her mother's body back to Bybanks? 18. To Sal, bravery was looking Pandora's Box in the eye and then doing what? 19. Why was it hard for Sal to read her mother's postcard from Coeur d'alene? 20. The Navaho story about Estsanatlehi was about a woman who did what? 21. What was something that Sal was NOT jealous of? 22. What did Ben send Sal in the middle of October? 23. Why did Phoebe hope that Mr. Birkway would not go on the trip to Bybanks? 24. What did Sal hope for during Ben's visit?

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