Questions+-+Chp.+3

1. Why does the mother insist that the boy wear his worn-out overalls the morning after his father's arrest? ​

2.What is significant about the sentence which immediately follows the three-line quotation from "That Lonesome Road"?

3. What is the significance of the boy's comment about the sun?

4. Why does the boy worry about his mother as she heads for town?

He fears that the townspeople will treat her poorly. He pictures them pushing and pulling her, finally putting her also in the back of a wagon.

5. Why does the boy's memory of curtains both please and frighten him?

He can not relax until he passes the curtains.

6. How does the riddle the boy tells provide a clever conclusion to his previous thoughts about people who live in big houses?

7. How do we know that the boy is growing more responsible?
8. How does the description of the area under the cabin increase the reader's sympathy for the boy and his family?

9. Why does the boy cry after his thorough examination of the area under the cabin?

10. Why doesn't the boy return to his brother and sisters after his futile search for Sounder?