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259 Cards in this Set
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Where did Mikey have a job?
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At the base
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What did Mikey come home with after work?
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glossy magazines, comic books, and sometimes slabs of meat
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What did Tantie think was in the bottle?
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Two dead crapaud
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Where was Mikey sent to go?
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New York
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What did Tantie say Mikey would have if he went to New York?
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All the pretty-shirt and saga-pants he wanted
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Where did Tantie say Mikey would stay if he came back from New York?
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At the Strandview Hotel
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What didn't Tantie turn on to listen to on the radio?
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Mary Price, Midlands housewife, or mother and confidante
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Which river did Tantie say make Mikey different?
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Jordan
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Where did the ship land in which Selwyn went on?
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England
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Where did Tantie say Selwyn thought he had reached?
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The Golden Gates
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Who did Tantie say Selwyn would have to come with to send the children with ihim in the "Golden Gates"?
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God and He Mother (his mother)
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What did Tantie whack on the chair before going back into the kitchen?
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The duster
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What did Mikey call Tantie?
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Nennen
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How many years would Mikey have to have to go without Tantie's permission?
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21
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How was Toddan chatting too much?
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My asking silly questions
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What did Toddan go off to explore?
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The fountain and the tourist-shop
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Who was making knowing comments?
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Uncle Sylvester
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What was Uncle Sylvester making comments on?
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On propellers and immigration officers' caps
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What had they never seen Mikey in before?
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A suit
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Name some of the things that Tantie said were necessities for Mikey's trip?
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Tamarind jam, pone, coconut oil etc.
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What did Mikey have?
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Baggage and large envelopes
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What was Tantie calling Toddan?
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Mikey
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What was in Mikey's parcels for Tantie?
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A dress and stockings and a handbag
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What was at the bottom of the box?
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A large photograph of Mikey
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What did Mikey bring for the children?
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Toys and sweets
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What was Mikey's name?
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Michael
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Where was everyone when Tee sympathazied with somethings?
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In Exhibition Class
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What was Tee sympahizing with and why?
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With the chickens because they were to be put in the cage and fattened up by Tantie for Christmas.
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What had Tee been reciting in her sleep?
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textiles, mutton, wheat
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Who was most understanding with Tee in a geologial treatise?
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Mr. Thomas
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What did Tee reveal to Mr. Thomas?
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That the West Riding of Yorkshire was a huge race course, and the largest in the world.
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Where did Mr. Thomas say he had to put that info. from Tee?
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In his Exhibition-Class book
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What did Sir used too suffer?
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painful seizures
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What word would the class misspell or leave blank in Dictation?
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sleet
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What would Sir do to punish the class for spelling the word inccorrectly or leaving it blank?
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Three beatings with the tamarind whip
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What would Sir do if no one gave a suggestion of what sleet was?
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He would give them six more beatings.
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When was Tee coming to school in the morning?
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At seven o'clock in the morning
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When was Tee leaving school?
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At six o'clock in the afternoon
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What would Mr.Thomas do with the class in the middle of lessons?
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He would send them off to play
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What word would plough a weight of lead in everyone's game?
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Exam
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What did Mr. Thomas tell the children to do the day before the exam?
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He told them to leave their books at home, and he would read some good ones from his Exhibition book
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What did Tee say the children laughed too much at?
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At Mr. Thomas' prize collection of scholarly howlers
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What did the children talk about and do on the day before exam?
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They talked about what they were wearing to the exam, they sang songs, and talked about high-schools that they were going to.
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What songs did they sing?
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'Men of Harlech', 'The Minstrel Boy', and 'Loch Lomond'
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Which high-schools were the boys arguing about going to?
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Ascension or Imperial College
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Which schools did the girls all want to attend?
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Queen Victoria's or St. Ann's
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Which school were at least forty-one of the students going to really end up at?
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Coriaca Government school
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On which day did Tantie hear the news about what Tee got?
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On a Sunday morning
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Who was out at Tantie's house in the morning to tell her about the news, and what was she/he rattling?
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She was Mavis, and she was rattling the gallery gate
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What did Tee receive?
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A scholarship
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What did Mavis suggest Tantie thought was the reason she came up there ?
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"Wha'yu t'ink, ROBBERRY wid Violence"
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Which place did the novel say was where Tantie's squawking must have been hear?
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Up in Pointe d'Espoir
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What animal did they kill at the little party thrown for Tee?
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Chicken
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When did Auntie Beatirce say Tee would be coming home?
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On vacations and sometimes on weekends
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What did Tantie say that she and her family were not?
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Paupers
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What did Carol refer to Tee as?
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'she'
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What belonged to Carol and was in the place where Tee needed to put her things?
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Her 'dorncing-things'
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When did Carol and Beatrice laugh when Tee was in the room?
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When Tee drew out all her garments out of the suitcase.
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What were the 2 names that Carol said Tee's name were because she 'supposedly had forgetten it'?
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Agatha or Emmalina
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What did Carol say when Tee didn't answer her?
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'Oh dear, she has not tongue'
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Who was talking with Carol on the phone?
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Susan (Sus'n)
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What was Carol doing while she was on the phone?
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She was waving her fork in the air and dancing about on her chair
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What did Bernadette have on when she came downstairs for food?
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She had on a frothy yellow bathrobe and face-cream
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How many mouthfuls of food did Bernadette put in her mouth before going back upstairs?
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2
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Who were fighting over the phone?
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Bernadette and Carol
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Who got to pick up the phone?
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Bernadette
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Who was the call for?
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Uncle Norman
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What did Auntie Beatrice do to show her distress?
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She kept on fanning herself and shaking her head
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What did Carol do after she ate?
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She curled up in an armchair and opened a magazine
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What did Bernadette have in her mouth when she came downstairs again?
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She had a toothbrush in her mouth
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What did Bernadette say to Aunt Beatrice about Carol?
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"I find it's time you started training that little BITCH"
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What kind of noise did Carol "send" up to Bernadette?
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A mocking singsong noise
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Whose room was Tee sleeping in?
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Jessica's
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Who shared rooms?
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Carol and Jessica
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What did Auntie Beatrice do to Tee on the first night?
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She kissed Tee on her forehead
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What event was one of the things Tee had to do for the first time?
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She had to sleep in a bed all by herself
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What was the colour of Tee's new uniform?
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blue and white
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What did Tantie say about the uniform?
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That it was damn nun-clothes
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What did Tee associate the young ladies with?
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with snow-faries
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What would the flight of nuns twitter along their trail?
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'Good morninng Mother, good morning Sister'
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Whose classs was Tee in?
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The same class as Carol
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Where was Carol sitting?
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In the front row, in the desk that was immediately under the teacher's
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Where did Tee feel like she would have to sit?
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In the back row
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Who was the form mistress?
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Mrs. Wattman
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Describe Mrs. Wattman?
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A stout woman with a faintly apologetic, twitchy manner.She wore lipstick in a most curious fashion, and she constantly adjsuted her belt and patted her hair.
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From when did Carol come up at St. Ann's?
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From Kindergarten and Lower School
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What did Carol show Mrs. Wattman to tell her about her vacation?
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She told her news by illustrating drawings on the blackboard
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What was the main activity that much of the week was spent doing?
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Selecting people for various posts for the choiir, the Dramatic Society, the netball team.
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What was Jessica in?
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The Second Company of Guides
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Why wasn't Jessica in the choir or anything else but the S.C. of Guides?
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Because she was not light-skinned
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What did Tee say Aunt Beatrice was putting all her efforts towards?
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Towards forcing Tee in as a triplet to Carol and Jessica
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What did Auntie Beatrice suggest to Tee about joining?
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The Guides
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What company was Tee placed in?
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the Second
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What was Auntie Beatrice trying to get Tee into?
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Carol's dancing school
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When did Tee go to the dancing lesson?
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On the next Saturday afternoon
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Whose class wasz Auntie Beatrice trying to get Tee into?
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Miss de Vertueil's
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Who told Miss de Vertueil that someone was there to see her?
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A pot-bellied child with no bottom
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What colour was Miss de Vertueil's lipstick?
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A bright red
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What was Auntie Beatrice's last name?
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McNeil
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What kind of test was Tee given to see if she was fit for Miss de Vertueil's class?
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A rhythm test
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What did Miss de Vertueil turn on?
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A record-player
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How did Tee describe the girl who was dancing?
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Like a fat hen bent on taking flight
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How did Tee describe the bodies around her when she was supposed to start dancing?
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A whirlpool of bodies
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What was Auntie Beatrice's head darting like?
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Like a mother bird
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Where did Miss de Vertueil suggest for Tee to try dance lessons?
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In Miss Grieve's troupe
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What did Auntie Beatrice say about the children in Miss Grieve's troupe?
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that they were ordinry little children
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Where did Aunt Beatrice say Tee should go with Carol and Jessica?
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To all the birthday parties and garden parties they went to
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Where did Tee appear in a dress Tantie had made for her?
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At Mass on one Sunday
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What did Auntie Beatrice say about how Tee's dress looked?
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It was 'niggery-looking'
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What was Tee taking at her school?
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Catechism classes
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Which church was Tee to be christened into?
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The Catholic Church
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What would Carol and Jessica giggle into at Mass?
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into their little books
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Who did Tee feel were coldly regarding her when she was at Mass?
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the whole church, people and the building
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When did Tee mention her packing for the wedding to Aunt Beatrice?
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On Friday
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Who's wedding was it?
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Moonie's
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What did Aunt Beatrice refer to the wedding as?
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As a coolie affair
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What does simmy-dimmy mean?
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Mumbo-jumbo
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What did Aunt Beatrice say Tee would do on the day of Moonie's wedding?
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She would go for a long drive and drop by Auntie Beryl.
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What did Auntie Beatrice say she would tell Aunt Rosa so that Tee wouldn't be able to go to the wedding?
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She would tell Tantie that she had the flu.
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When did Auntie Beatrice say she would take Tee home to Tantie?
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Next weekend
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When would Auntie Beatrice come back for Tee?
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on Sunday night
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What did Tee say Moonie mysteriously transfigured into at her wedding?
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Into a pretty and fragile doll smothered in cloth and flowers
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What did Tee say the young men would beat the drum like?
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the devil
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When would the young men beating the drum stop?
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When the sharp beat had taken hold of the night like a hiccup
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Who were the babus at the wedding?
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The Hindu granfathers
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What were the babus doing?
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They were squatting with their sticks, and looking at the great crowd
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What would the tough young girl have on top of her head?
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A pith-oil tin full of water
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What did Tee say Toddan would have had at the wedding already?
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His castor-oil
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What 2 foods was Tee now thinking of?
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Dalpouri and good hot pepper
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What was the height of the festivity for Tee and Toddan?
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Eating off a piece of banana-leaf if they didn't have enough plates
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What did Auntie Beatrice think of pepper-sauce?
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She thought it was nastiness
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Where was Ma's pepper-sauce a favourite?
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In Pointe d'Espoir market
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What did they pour the pepper-sauce over?
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rice, fish-soup, bread
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What did Tantie say Tee could do if she ever wanted to go home?
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She could write or shecould phone Ling
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Who did Tantie say that Selwyn would have to bring?
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God an' He Mother
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Where did Tee have to go on Saturday, on the week Auntie Beatrice said she could go home?
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to one of the next-door children's birthday party
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What did Tee say Carol and Jessica had no intention of letting her in?
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into their dubious confr`erie.(accent over 1st e)
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What did Bernadette come into the room with?
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with her hairdos, high thin heels, and her unlikely affectedness in her speech
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What did Bernadette do a lot?
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spend hours on the telephone
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What did Bernadette and her cronies do on weekends?
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They filled the gallery, chatting, playing records, and flirting
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What was the full-time occuppation of Auntie Beatrice?
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The girls' social life
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What was St. Cyr Boulevard better known as?
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San-See
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What was San-See?
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An approved fashion-parade promenade
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What was Bernadette's nick-name?
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Bernie
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What reminded Tee of a picture of her mother?
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Auntie Beatrice's smile
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Descirbe the photograph that Auntie Beatrice had on her wall
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It was large, oval, reddish brown with age, and was encircled in a heavy frame of gilded foliage.
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What was the photograph of?
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Of The White Ancestress called Elizabeth Helen Carter
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Who was Carol's middle name, and Tee's mother's name named after?
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Elizabeth Helen Carter
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Where did Elizabeth live?
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at her Godparents
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What kind of poeple were the godparents?
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low-class
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Where was Elizabeth suppose to go?
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To the people on the Grange
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What would the people on the Grange do with Elizabeth?
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They would take her back to England
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Who did Aunt Beatrice seem to blame Jessica on?
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Unle Norman
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Who did Jessice say didn't like her?
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Sister Columba
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Who did Aunt Beatrice say Jessica could go live with if she continue to talk like them?
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with market-people
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When did Tantie to Tee's hair?
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When she was dressing up "for sweetness"
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What would Auntie Beatrice do to Tee every night?
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give her a kiss
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What would Auntie Beatrice do in in the mornigns to Tee?
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Comb her hair and tie her bows
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What would Tee do when she was angry about her bows being tied by Auntie Beatrice?
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She would go in the bathroom and untie and then retie her bows
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What would Aunt Beatrice carry on for the benefit of Carol and Jessica because they wouldn't allow her to comb their hair?
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A monologue
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What did Tee want to go to?
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Carnival
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Where did they go at the Carnival on both days?
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to the Stands
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What did they do at the Stands?
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They sat and watched the bands
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Who did they watch the bands in the company of?
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tourists and the nice people who were in 2 minds about the carnival
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What did they see in the Carnival?
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the unmistakable niggeryness of the affair
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What did Bernadette say about the Carnival?
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real nigger-break loose
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Who was the only one in the house playing mas'?
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Bernadette
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What does "playing mas'" mean?
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joining a street band of masqueraders
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Why was Bernadette playing mas'?
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Because through Roger Hemandez she could get into Starpoints
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Who did Aunt Beatrice say could also get into Starpoints?
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Carol
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When did Auntie Beatrice say Carol could get into Starpoints?
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maybe next year
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Who were they supposed to look out for at the Carnival?
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Bernadette
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Who were they sitting against?
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an American tourist
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Describe the American tourist
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He was in shirt of many colurs, Bermuda shorts of many colours and a broad panama hat with a polka-dot band.
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What were they in?
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jeans and jerseys
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What would Tantie, Tee, Mikey, and Toddan go to their Carnival in?
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In Ramlaal's truck
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Where was the Carnival that Tantie and the others used to go?
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in Coriaca
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What did they do on the way to the Carnival?
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The sang and drummed on their chocolate and pitch-oil tins
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What did the tins contain?
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The pelau and roti and dalpouri annd chicken
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What did Toddan and Mikey play?
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They played djab'-djab'
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What did the 2 of them collect?
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a sum of money
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What did Tee atrat to call all her neighbours and her Indian friends?
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raucous niggerry people and coolies
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Where did Auntie Beatrice think Tee was going with her for the Easter vacation?
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To Canapo
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What did Auntie Beatrice rent in Canapo?
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a beach-house
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Who would have to write a letter to Tantie that Tee was going to Canapo?
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Tee
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What was the house at Canapo called?
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Cosy Nook
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Where did the Cosy Nook lay?
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In a cove shut in on one side by a rising finger of land.
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What was this rising finger of land called?
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The Head
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WHat was the cove filled in with that was just like Ma's land?
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the greeness (dense dark green fury)
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What did Uncle Norman do for the most of the time?
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he slept
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Where did they go on the 1st and 2nd days of their Easter vacation?
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they went to the beach
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Who appeared on the scene on the third day?
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the Silvas
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Where were the Silvas staying?
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in a beach-houde on the other side of the Head
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What did Bernadette, Carol and Jessica go for the rest of the vacaton?
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They went to the other side of the Head with the da SIlva boys and girls
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What were the da Silvas doing in the week that they had been there?
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Sunbathing
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What did Bernadette, Carol, and Jessica say they wanted to go to the other side of the Head?
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the water was better
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What were they wearing to go with their friends?
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their bright beach-clothes
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When did they promise to be back?
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at lunch
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Which trees did the noise of Auntie Beatrice die away into?
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the coconut trees
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Where was Tee when Auntie Beatrice went about the house calling frantically after her?
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the toilet
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Where did the Cosy Nook lay?
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In a cove shut in on one side by a rising finger of land.
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What was this rising finger of land called?
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The Head
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WHat was the cove filled in with that was just like Ma's land?
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the greeness (dense dark green fury)
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What did Uncle Norman do for the most of the time?
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he slept
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Where did they go on the 1st and 2nd days of their Easter vacation?
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they went to the beach
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Who appeared on the scene on the third day?
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the Silvas
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Where were the Silvas staying?
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in a beach-houde on the other side of the Head
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What did Bernadette, Carol and Jessica go for the rest of the vacaton?
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They went to the other side of the Head with the da SIlva boys and girls
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What were the da Silvas doing in the week that they had been there?
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Sunbathing
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What did Bernadette, Carol, and Jessica say they wanted to go to the other side of the Head?
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the water was better
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What were they wearing to go with their friends?
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their bright beach-clothes
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When did they promise to be back?
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at lunch
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Which trees did the noise of Auntie Beatrice die away into?
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the coconut trees
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Where was Tee when Auntie Beatrice went about the house calling frantically after her?
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the toilet
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Where did Auntie Beatrice and Tee go after eating breakfast?
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they went to the bannister of the gallery and stared out at the sea
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When did Tee scuttle throught the back door?
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while the others made their exit throught the front door
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Where was Tee making for?
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the bushes at the side of the house
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Where did Tee continue to run towards?
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the beach
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Where did Tee think she could hide?
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in the growth of vines that fringed the beach in places, and the little alcoves they formed
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Where did the vines grow along?
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a little shelf that rose up from the beach
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What could Tee see over on the other side?
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the three (J, C, B) moving along the Head
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What did Tee think about after shutting out the thought of Auntie Beatrice?
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the beach at Pointe d'Espoir and all the cousins annd Godsisters and Godbrothers
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Why was the thought of the cousins,.... to be shut out by Tee?
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Because she saw everyone coming out of the water with their petticoats, panites, and old trousers on their bodies, and some with no clothes on at all.
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What did Tee think of after the cousins...?
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Ma
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What was Ma?
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she was a market-woman, she sold in the market
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What was Tee thinking of after Ma?
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suppose Bernadette, Carol, and Jessica knew that Ma was a market-woman
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What insulted Tee when she ran away?
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the sea, the sea-birds, the jumbled footprints in the sand, and the dead leaves
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Who was Auntie Beatrice coaxing the others (J,B,C)to bring over?
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the da Silva and their friends
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Where did Auntie Beatrice ask Uncle Norman to drive them to in the afternoon?
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to the nearest town, ten miles away
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What did Uncle Norman make clear that he would do as soon as the would reach?
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he would find a tree to park under and sleep
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What did they do at the nearest town?
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They shopped
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What did Auntie Beatrice say about all the shops she went to?
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that there was no proper food to get there, only a bottle of stuffed olives and a bag of potato chips
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What did Aunt Beatrice say she was glad that she brought her own supply of?
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Worcester sauce and French dressing
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Where did they spend the rest of the day at after coming back from the town?
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in the kitchen
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What were they doing in the kitchen?
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preparing the spread
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Where did Tee hear talking ?
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In the gallery, and then towards the kitchen
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What did Bernadette say in an irritated voice?
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She said something about the moon, annd that they didn't know (probably about the dinner)
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Where did Tee go after leaving the kitchen?
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the gallery
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When Tee went out into the bush, what was she assailed by?
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mosquitos and sand-flies
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Where did Aunt Beatrice's daughters gone?
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they had gone crab-huntingWha
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What would Berndatte scream after if she saw it, and what would she scream like?
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she would scream after seeing a baby spider, and like a madwoman
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What would Tee remember that Na's bigger boys would have to go to the beach?
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crocus-bags, flashlights and lengths of vine
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What time in the night would Ma's bigger boys go?
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When there was a full moon
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What did Aunt Beatrice lay the dishcloths over?
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the sandwiches, the nuts, olives and fancy biscuits
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Where did Aunt Beatrice and Tee walk?
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along the beach in the direction of the Head
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What did Tee see at the end of the head?
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A crab, and someone who took hold of it with a crocus-bag
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What were the lights on the other side of the Head like?
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large candle-flies
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Who grabbed Tee's hand when he/she meant to catch a crab?
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a boy
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What did Tee fetch that Auntie Beatrice took away from her?
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A brrom to sweep
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What was now a monstrous enemy?
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the Head
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Where could Tee have spent hours of safety at Canapo?
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th vine alcove
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What would the children help themselves to lunch out of?
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the pots and pans
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Why did Carol and Jessica laugh at Tee one day when they helped themselves to lunch?
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she put her food ina bowl and ate with a dessert-spoon
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What did Tee bring into Auntie Beatrice's home by eating in a bowl with a spoon?
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her ordryness
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What 2 things were Aunt Beatrice sure of hauling out of Tee?
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her ordinaryness and niggeryness
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What was Tantie now referred to as?
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'that woman'
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What did Aunt Beatrice say Toddan would turn into?
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a worthless little vagabond
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What did Auntie Beatrice say Tantie did not have?
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no culture, no breeding, no sense of right and wrong
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What did Aunt Beatrice say she would live to see?
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She would live to see Toddan spurn Tantie and blush at her name
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