Echo Comprehension Questions Week 8

Week 8 - Part 2, Chapters 5 - 8

Directions
Answer the questions in full sentences.  Do not recopy the questions. All 20 Questions are due submitted to Turnitin.com by Monday 1/29/18 at 8:15 AM.

Part 2, Chapter 5
1. What are the Hoxie‛s Harmonica Wizards?

2. Why do they refer to Franklin Delano Roosevelt as “Happy Days are Here Again” Franklin Delano Roosevelt?

3. What is the plan between Mike, Frankie, and the Hoxie Harmonica Wizards?

4. However, what was Mike‛s plan?

5. Did Mike or Frankie have a better plan? Use evidence to support your answer.


Part 2, Chapter 6
6. Pennyweather needs Mike and Frankie to play the piano for some potential buyers. However, what is unique about this situation?

7. What were the lawyers doing at the Bishop‛s? What is Eunice Dow Sturbridge wanting to do?

8. Why would Frankie and Mike be a good fit for Mrs. Sturbridge?

9. What is puzzling about this statement: “You see it must be a child who is musical” (250).


Part 2, Chapter 7
10. “She shot Mike a smile, but he knew it was meant as a warning” (252). Why is she warning Mike?

11. “‘Making a child an indentured servant is against the law‛” (255). What is an indentured servant?
12. “‘Oh, Mrs. Pennyweather, I think you underestimate us. We don‛t do anything in a small way‛” (256). What do you think this means?


Part 2, Chapter 8
13. “‘We‛re being ‘dopted, not fostered‛” (258). What is the difference between the two?

14. How are Mike and Frankie‛s views about this situation different? Use evidence to support your answer.

15. “... if something seem too good to be true, it was probably a swindle” (258). What do you think could go wrong with this situation? Why do you think this way?

16. Who are Mr. Howard, Mr. Potter, and Mrs. Potter?

17. “‘Mr. Howard, sir, you just stirred the pot real good” (259). How has Mr. Howard stirred the pot? What does this idiom mean?

18. Mrs. Sturbridge gets angry with Mr. Howard. How does Mr. Howard respond?

19. “If it had mattered so much, why hadn‛t she chosen a child herself? Something didn‛t feel right “(263). What do you think is going on in this situation? Use evidence to support your thinking.

20. “‘Believe it or not, boys,‛ said Mr. Howard, ‘that went well‛” (264). Why did Mr. Howard adopt Frankie and Mike if he knew things would end up the say they had? Use evidence to support your thinking.