Quiz

A. Please write specifically about Mary's feelings about her grandmother. What are some of her grandmother's habits? What does she suffer from? What does she think about Mary and Lecia? What does she reveal to Mary about Mary's mother?

If you cannot remember the answers to these questions, don't despair. Write as much as you can about the relationship.

B. Briefly, What causes Mary and her family to run from Leechfield? What happens on the bridge?

A
-Mary's feelings about her grandma are not very good. Her grandma is more of a figure of torment, amusement, and fear in her eyes than that of a loved one. Torment, because her grandma hates the way she's being raised and how she acts. Amusement, sometimes anyway, when it comes to her grandma having no leg. Like her pretending she was captain hook, or laughing when the national guardsmen tried to pick her up and her stub kept slipping out. Last but definitely not least, fear. The fear of seeing grandma laying in the bed after surgery. The fear of the wooden legs shadow in the hallway. The fear of the smell of death in grandma's room and it bubbling from within her stomach, rising through her throat and out of her mouth.

-Some of grandmas habits would be always trying to tell Mary's mother how to raise and discipline her kids, and always eating baby aspirin, just to name a few.

- Grandma suffers from cancer, to answer the question generally. A specific thing she suffered from was having mustard gas pumped in her leg. The doctors thought it would stop the spread, but they were wrong. Her leg was pitch black and had to be amputed. The book says that she screamed for a week or more straight.

-Grandma thinks Mary could probably be the Anti Christ(not literally) when it comes to the way she behaves and how a child should behave. Her opinion of Lecia however, is much better. Not because Lecia acts any better than Mary behind closed doors, but because Lecia knows how to suck up and do things that please grandma, like go to church.

-Grandma reveals to Mary that her mother has two older childer, named Tex and Belinda. She says to Mary that her mother had them "sent away" because of their behavior.

B
-Mary and her family had to run from Leechfield due to a Hurricane. They weren't going to leave, hadn't it been for the National Guard busting in their door and making them. They make it all the way to the bridge which is very steep. On the bridge Mary throws up in her shirt. I believe the cars spins out of control? Or they almost crash? Or something of that matter. My imagery of the scene at the time was not as sharp as its been throughout other parts of the book, and I'm not going to pick the book up and look because I spent most this week actually reading and keeping up specifically so I wouldnt have to today. Pride issue, I'm sorry