Week 12 Echo Comprehension Questions

Echo Comprehension Questions Week 12

Part 3, Chapters 1 - 3, pages 362 - 400

Part 3, Intro
1. The setting for Part Three is in Southern California during December 1942. What is significant about this setting?


Part 3, Chapter 1
2. The chapter begins with the song Auld Lang Syne . What is this song about?

3. What is Ivy Maria Lopez and her mother hoping for?

4. What is the connection between Part One, Part Two, and Part Three?

5. “She slipped the harmonica inside the jacket. His gray wool jacket…” (371). Who is he?

6. “... Papa says you have your head in the clouds. You must come down to earth” (372). What does this statement mean? Do you think this is a bad thing?  Why or why not?

7. How did Ivy‛s parents treat her differently compared to Ivy‛s brother, Fernando?

8. “... Ivy watched the hungry eyes of mothers and young wives” (374). Why did the author use the word hungry to describe their eyes?

9. Where is Fernando? Why had it been so long since they have heard from him?

10. Ivy‛s family receives news that there is a job opportunity in Orange County. Why was there a job opportunity open?


Part 3, Chapter 2
11. “... she had lived so many places: Buttonwillow, Modesto, Selma, Shafter, and other towns whose names she‛d long forgotten” (377). Why did Ivy‛s family have to move so much?

12. Papa mentions that a war is going on. Which war? Where do you think Nando is stationed?

13. “Mama would think it improper to use Fernando as an example when he was away fighting a war” (382). Why would it be improper?

14. Why did Bertina‛s family have to leave their job? What would become Papa and Mama‛s jobs?

15. “Better. Papa was always looking for a place called Better” (385). What does this mean? Why was Papa always looking?


Part 3, Chapter 3
16. “She could even point a finger at the exact day three months ago when her life had become different” (388). What do you think happened?

17. What happened the day after Ivy arrived in Fresno?

18. “Hadn‛t Fernando and his buddies said they knew people who tried to enlist but were refused because they weren‛t fit for the military?” (390). Why would people wanting to fight for their country be sent away?

19. Why was Fernando not suited for war? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

20. How is Ivy‛s school planning on helping out during the war?

21. How did Ivy get the harmonica with the tiny red M painted on it?

22. What an Ivy do to “fix” things when Fernando is away at war? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

23. What songs were played during the last night Ivy‛s family was together?