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The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold, Comprehension Questions Cynthia Wiseman The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold, Ch. 2 1. How was Suzie’s heaven at first? 2. What did she realize about heaven after a few days? 3. Who was Holly? Describe her. 4. Why was Franny in Suzie and Holly’s heaven? 5. What was Franny’s heaven like? 6. What did Suzie really want? 7. When did Suzie miss Holly? 8. What did Suzie want to believe about her role in the family now? 9. What news did the police give Mr. Salmon? What did he tell his wife Abigail? 10. How had the disappearance of her daughter affect the parents? 11. WHy did her father pour the Scotch down the drain? 12. What did he always say about Suzie’s smile? 13. What did the police find first? 14. What did all the evidence suggest? 15. Why did the police suspect Ray Singh? 16. What was Ray’s alibi? 17. What made people think he was guilty even though he had an alibi? 18. What was Mr. Harvey doing as the police searched for clues? 19. Why didn’t Suzie let herself miss her family the way she missed her dog? 20. What made Abigail, Suzie’s mother, finally break down? 21. What does Len Fenerman, the detective, tell the family? 22. How does the father respond? 23. How does Lindsay react? 24. What was Lindsay’s way of dealing with people in the aftermath of the crime? 25. How does Lindsay respond to the principal’s attempt to console her? 26. What did it mean to Lindsay to be labeled gifted? 27. How does Lindsay remind Suzie of a character in a Western? 28. What was the Inbetween?

Vocabulary: Find the following words in the book. Read the sentence and try to figure out the meaning or a synonym from the text. If you cannot find the meaning alone, then ask a friend. If neither of you can figure out the meaning, look in a dictionary.

crouched ledge unsheathed thudded bloated shove blubbery lumbering feathered swift vengeance beyond reproach duplicate spun destitute split level bittersweet meticulous numbly drifted off cast sodden plying huddle modulate vigil scribbled shreds dodging armed to the teeth petulant Herculean effort altercation

The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold, Ch. 3 Wiseman 1. What could the dead see as they looked down on earth? 2. Who had Suzie touched as she let Earth? 3. How does she describe the experience of death? 4. What does Ruth tell her mother the next morning? 5. How does the brush with death affect Ruth? What does she begin to do? 6. Why did Ruth break into Clarissa’s locker? What did she take? 7. What did Ruth do with the things she took? 8. What were some aspects of her heaven that Suzie enjoyed? What did she miss? Why couldn’t Franny comfort her? 9. On the morning of her 11th birthday what rare moment did Suzie capture in her new camera? 10. How was her mother like a stranger? 11. What was unusual about the photo? 12. What makes Suzie think of the photo? 13. What provoked Suzie’s first break through to Earth? 14. What was her father’s reaction to her appearance to him? 15. How does this bring her father closer to Buckley?

Vocabulary: Find the following words in the book. Read the sentence and try to figure out the meaning or a synonym from the text. If you cannot find the meaning alone, then ask a friend. If neither of you can figure out the meaning, look in a dictionary.

p. 36 p. 37 Mundane gesticulating Aware of nuances Deceased p. 38 Phantomlike cloak]cower Shrieked out embroidery Graze mooned over

p. 39 p. 40 giggling speculate nuzzled tottered in penchant kumquats

p. 41 p. 42 squad assumed stud swaddled plucked discreet trail away stealthy p. 43 p.44 stretched discarded evaporated tethers held in check

p. 45 p. 46 diligence sagged a sixth sense toppled over whoosh shard and sliver

p. 47 p. 48 punch a fist through mortality to steep oneself murky draped around blurred

The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold, Ch. 4 Wiseman 1. What does Mr. Harvey do during the hours after the murder? 2. What had experience as a killer informed Mr. Harvey to do? 3. How was he careless? 4. What did Harvey do after he brought the body inside the house? What was he thinking about as he showered? 5. What did Mr. Harvey do with the bones? 6. Who were the Flanagans? How did Mrs. Flanagan joke with Mr. Harvey? 7. What did he do with the charm bracelet? 8. What did Mr. Harvey decide to do after reading about the Dogon and Bambara of Mali? 9. What did Mr. Harvey take a break to do? 10. What made Suzie’s father begin to suspect something?

Vocabulary: Find the following words in the book. Read the sentence and try to figure out the meaning or a synonym from the text. If you cannot find the meaning alone, then ask a friend. If neither of you can figure out the meaning, look in a dictionary.

collapsed 49 tsk-tsked at seep out 49 preciitation, 5- fastidious, 50 create goose bumps, 50 prickling, 50 extract, 50 remains, 51 fishtailed, 5 nestled against, 51 growling, 52 appliances, 52 combination,53 minuscule, 53 dormant, 54 replicate, 55 wafting, 56 methodically, 56 domed, 57 whipped, 57 monogrammed 57

The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold, Ch. 5 Wiseman 1. How was her father dealing with the death of his daughter? 2. what made Suzie think that her father knew who her killer was? 3. What was the Walking Dead Syndrome that Lindsay had to deal with? 4. Why does her father knock on Lindsay’s door? What is Lindsay’s response? 5. Who does her father tell about his suspicions regarding Harvey? 6. How is Abigail taking this? Why does she hate the word ‘mama’? 7. What did Len Fenerman find out when he questioned Mr. Harvey? 8. How does Mr. Harvey try to divert suspicion from himself? 9. What discrepancy did Suzie’s father find in Mr. Harvey’s talk with Fenerman? 10. How did the Salmon’s celebrate Christmas that year? 11. Who paid a visit to Lindsay? What was he carrying? 12. How does her father try to tell Buckley that his sister Suzie is dead? 13. What was the Christmas gift he gave Lindsay?

Vocabulary: Find the following words in the book. Read the sentence and try to figure out the meaning or a synonym from the text. If you cannot find the meaning alone, then ask a friend. If neither of you can figure out the meaning, look in a dictionary. ecstatic, 59 begrudged, 59 murmurs, 59 temples, 60 reverent, 61 stubby, 61 drained, 62 macaroons, 62 blossomed, 63 narrative, 63 intruding, 64 a bit tweaked, 65 confetti, 65 mandatory, 66 widow’s peak, 67 cowlick, 67 auto-pilot, 67

The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold, Ch. 6 Wiseman 1. What happened 2 weeks before Suzie died? 2. What was Ray Singh doing up on top of the scaffolding in the backstage area of the theatre? 3. Why was Ray cutting English class? 4. As the two of them lay on the scaffolding together how does Suzie feel? Whose voices do they hear below? What is the problem? What had ruth done? 5. How did Ruth defend herself? What did the art teacher and Mr. Peterford tell Ruth she had to do? 6. What happens when Suzie climbs down from the scaffolding? 7. How is Ruth’s work? How does this change Suzie’s idea about Ruth? 8. What is the ritual that Ruth and her father go through when he drops her off at school? 9. What does Ruth do after the murder? 10. How do Ray and Ruth hook up together? 11. What do they two of them have in common? What else do they share? 12. When Suzie’s dad visited Ruana Singh what was he struck by ? 13. Why had he come over to the Singh? What is Ruana’s response? 14. Why does she say that she will not allow Suzie’s father to feel sympathy for her son? 15. What does he tell Ruana Singh that he has not told anyone else except Fenerman? What is Mrs. Singh’s advice? 16. What was unusual about Len Fenerman? 17. What makes Fenerman attracted to Abigail?

Vocabulary: Find the following words in the book. Read the sentence and try to figure out the meaning or a synonym from the text. If you cannot find the meaning alone, then ask a friend. If neither of you can figure out the meaning, look in a dictionary.

Hovered, 72 paddle your behind, 72 Scaffolding, 73 torso, 73 Crush, 73 perpetual hangover, 73 Feigning the moves, dangling,74 Ventured, 74 condescending, 74 Twaddle, 74 persist, 75 Attitude of repose, 76 wooden crate, 77 Remote, 77 subversive, 77

The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold, Ch. 7 Wiseman 1. Who is Buckley playing with? Is he real or imaginary? What had Lindsay and Suzie loved to play with when they were young? Why does this seem significant to Suzie now? 2. What’s the secret between Buckley and his playmate? 3. What things had Suzie hidden up under her bed? Who had discovered it after she went missing? 4. Why had she kept the bloody handkerchief? What had happened that made her keep it? 5. Why did Suzie feel faint in heaven that day?

Tomb, 91 graveyard, 91 Grave rubbings, 91 curled up, 92 Stimulate, 92 wriggled, 93 Twig, 93 clothesline, 93 Cutoffs, 94 terra-cotta, 94 Queasy, 94 crooked, 95

The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold, Ch. 8 Wiseman 1. What were Mr. Harvey’s dreams like? 2. What dreams did he have on the night of the murder and a few days afterwards? 3. What did Suzie see about Mr. Harvey’s childhood? 4. What did he Mr. Harvey do when the not still dreams came back? What do these dreams and Suzie’s observations tell us about Mr. Harvey? 5. Vocabulary: Find the following words in the book. Read the sentence and try to figure out the meaning or a synonym from the text. If you cannot find the meaning alone, then ask a friend. If neither of you can figure out the meaning, look in a dictionary.

Stilts, 96 thatched-roofed, 96 Dwellings, 96 specimen, 96

The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold, Ch. 9 Wiseman 1. Who came for the memorial service for Suzie? 2. What kind of personality does Grandma Lynn have? How is her relationship with each family member? 3. How did grandmother change things when she arrived? How was this different than in years past? 4. What does Lindsay shyly ask her grandmother to do? 5. How does everyone end up that night as a result of Grandma Lynn’s influence? 6. How does Lindsay begin viewing herself? 7. Who was the only dead person that Suzie had seen? What happened at the funeral? 8. Why does Lindsay go into Suzie’s room on the day of her memorial? Why do you think she is doing that on this particular day? 9. While Lindsay is in Suzie’s room who comes in and what do they say to each other? 10. What did Grandma Lynn neglect to do on the way to the memorial service? 11. Why did she pinch her cheeks? 12. How was Suzie present at the service? 13. How was the memorial service actually a little easier to live through than the day-to-day struggle since Suzie’s death? 14. Why does Clarissa reach out towards Lindsay’s dress? Why does she stop herself? 15. Who came to the memorial service? Who stayed away? 16. Why did Lindsay faint?

Vocabulary: Find the following words in the book. Read the sentence and try to figure out the meaning or a synonym from the text. If you cannot find the meaning alone, then ask a friend. If neither of you can figure out the meaning, look in a dictionary.

Secondhand, 98 miscalculated, 99 Coping, 99 muttering, 99 Benzedrine, 100 starved down, 100 Obliged, 101 ` eyelash curler, 101 Know the ropes, 101 reeked of pot, 102 Get sloshed, 102 hollows, 103 Pouted, 103 flank, 105 Excruciating, 105 dole out, 107 Compliments, 107 nimble, 107 Smudged, 108 pinched his cheeks, 108 Cramped, 109 vestibule, 109 Chalice, 110 let bygones be bygones, 110 Demeaned, 110 subjugation, 110 Grab a seat, 110 trancelike, 111 Blushed, 111 numbed, 112 Blinked, 112 fidgeted, 112

The Lovely Bones, Ch 10 1. What special camp was Lindsay going to attend that summer? 2. What were the different cliques? 3. What was wrong with Ruth the morning of the symposium? Why was she trying all kinds of weird vegetarian dishes? 4. Where did Ruth find Lindsay at the symposium? Why had Lindsay not put her nametag on? 5. What position did Lindsay and Ruth have at the camp? 6. What had Lindsay drawn on her nametag? Why? 7. How did Lindsay and Heckler explore their freedom at camp that summer? 8. What was Suzie hoping that Ruth would write about in her journal? 9. How did Ruth feel about women as she noted in her writing? 10. What was usually the final project? 11. What does Suzie begin to wonder about her heaven? What does Franny tell her about finding the people that she had cared about in her heaven? 12. What was Ruth’s dream about Suzie? How did that resemble what really happened? 13. When the principal of Deven Jr. High was called away on an emergency, what did the assistant principal of Chester Springs School create as the challenge for this year’s final project? 14. Who tries to break the news to Lindsay? Why? 15. How does Lindsay react to the news? 16. How did Artie find out about Suzie’s murder? 17. What did the group begin to speculate about Lindsay? 18. How does Lindsay manage to escape the torture of the thoughts of her sister’s murder?

Vocabulary: Find the following words in the book. Read the sentence and try to figure out the meaning or a synonym from the text. If you cannot find the meaning alone, then ask a friend. If neither of you can figure out the meaning, look in a dictionary.

Socially crippled, 113 slated, 114 Creases, 114 kowtow, 114 Scanned, 115 spotted, 115 Pendant, 115 distinguished, 116 Gene pool, 116 assiduous, 117 Fuzzy, 117 hutch, 118 Upholstery, 119 solidifying, 120

The Lovely Bones, Chapter 11 1. What did Suzie’s father get up so early to do? 2. What did this morning walk give him an excuse to do? What was he looking for? 3. When he remembers what Mrs. Sign told him, why doesn’t he tell Abigail? 4. How did Suzie know Mr. Harvey’s house? 5. How did Harvey’s house compare with Suzie’s?? How did it differ? 6. What did MR. Harvey do to avoid suspicion? 7. What did Mr. Harvey keep after each murder? Who did these things represent? 8. What happened to the little girl Claire? 9. Where did Mr. Harvey spend time at night? 10. What had happened to the missing pets in the neighborhood? Who did the neighbors blame? 11. Why did he kill the animals? 12. In July what did Len Fenerman decide he had to do? Why? 13. Why was Suzie’s dad happy to see Len? 14. What does Len Fenerman tell Jack? 15. How does Lindsay react to this news? 16. How does Jack react to this news? 17. Late that night what does Jack do when he sees a light outside on the back? 18. What does Jack do? What does he take out to the cornfield? Why does he think he’s find? 19. Who shows up and what does he do? 20. Why does Suzie feel such utter despair?

Vocabulary: Find the following words in the book. Read the sentence and try to figure out the meaning or a synonym from the text. If you cannot find the meaning alone, then ask a friend. If neither of you can figure out the meaning, look in a dictionary.

Snoring, 126, thin-soled, 126 Instinct, 127 incontrovertible, 127 Lust, 128 squad car, 128 In conjunction with unremarkable, 128 Hysterical, 129 beads on a rosary, 129 Peek through, 130 drift off to, 130 Taunting, 130 crawlspace, 130 Stoop, 131 frantic, 132 Promotion, 132 descended, 132 Solemnly, 132 consensus, 133 Stretch, 133 propelling, 134 Punt, 135 stop bugging, 135 Flickering, 135 vault, 136 Quivering reflection doze, 136 Disguised. 137 whimpering, 138 Infused, 138 fumbled, 139 Unyielding, 139 vigil, 140

Chapter 12 1. How had Suzie’s father been injured? 2. What kind of surgery did he have to undergo? 3. There is a flashback to that morning and what do we learn had happened? 4. What is Abigail’s reaction when she realizes that her husband Jack must have gone out after the man that he suspected of killing his daughter? 5. What choice does Abigail give Lindsay? 6. Who goes to the hospital when they finally receive the call about their father? 7. When Lindsay finally makes it to the hospital, how is the scene with her father? How is she growing up right before Suzie’s eyes? 8. When her father doesn’t respond to Lindsay’s repeated the nursery rhyme, what is Suzie’s reaction? 9. What did Franny mean when she told Suzie, “When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things? 10. When Len Fenerman responds to Abigail’s call and rushes to the hospital, how is their meeting? 11. How does Abigail turn to Len Fenerman for support? Why do you think she does this? 12. How does Suzie describe her mother’s appeal to men? 13. How did Suzie’s father manage to capture her mother’s heart and devotion? 14. What was “mommy and daddy time’? 15. After a warm bath on those afternoons, what would the children do? 16. How had Suzie become her mom’s closest friend? What did her mom really need? 17. As Suzie recounts all the stories and conversations that she and her mom had on those afternoons what impression do we get about her mother? Why was her mother lonely? 18. What made these afternoon stories so sweet for Suzie? What was it all about for her and her mother? 19. What was a big turning point in her mother’s life? What brought about the end of her dreams about literature and higher education? 20. What were some of the signs that signaled this change? 21. Why does Abigail seduce Len Fenerman? What is she trying to escape? 22. As Abigail and Len pass by Hal in the hospital hall what does he realize? What does he immediately do? Why does he do that? 23. What is Suzie trying to do? What is one effect of her clinging to her life on earth?

Vocabulary: Find the following words in the book. Read the sentence and try to figure out the meaning or a synonym from the text. If you cannot find the meaning alone, then ask a friend. If neither of you can figure out the meaning, look in a dictionary.

Come unwound and spun down, 141 Crazy with grief, 140 Seeking revenge, 141 Persistent phone calls, 141 Entered a sort of hiatus, 141 Shivered, 142 fluorescent bar light buzzed, 142 Riddled mass of nerves, 142 Anxiously sucked his thumb, 142 Burst into hot panicked tears, 143 Dumbfounded, 143 Commotion, 144 clutching on to, 144 Curling up onto my father’s face, 145 Leaden weights had been tied by anesthesia, 145 Waxen cover, 145 Dispatcher, 145 Beating-around-the-yard ballet flats, 145 A horrible coincidence, 146 Slumped down, 146 Trace the corners of it with his fingertips, 147 Some variation on, 147

Chapter 13 1. How did things change for everyone after Jack attacked Clarissa and Brian in the cornfield? 2. How does Buckley seek solace to protect himself? 3. What had happened to Suzie’s mother? What state of mind had she entered since the baseball accident? How do you explain this? 4. How is this affecting her relationship with Buckley? 5. How had this incident affected Jack’s relationship with his son? With his boss and co-workers? 6. What did Suzie’s father apologize to her in his diary? 7. What is the significance of Suzie’s father being able to ride Buckley on his shoulders? Why was this so important to both of them and to the family at that time? 8. When Jack discovers Lindsay in the bathroom shaving her legs for the first time, what is his reaction? How does his reaction change, evolve? 9. As they talk in the bathroom, what does Lindsay say that makes us feel that she is even more alone than ever? 10. How is Jack so sure that Mr. Harvey is guilty? What do all the neighbors think about Mr. Harvey? 11. Why won’t the police do anything? 12. What is so painful for Lindsay as her father and her talk about Suzie? 13. What makes her think about getting into Harvey’s house? 14. Why does Grandma Lynn offer to help Abigail with the dishes? Why do they then go out for a walk together? 15. Why is it so uncomfortable for the two of them to be together? 16. At what point does her mother take her hand to comfort Abigail? Why? 17. What is a ‘nugget’ that comes out of the walk and talk? 18. How did Abigail feel as a child all those years? 19. When Abigail says ‘It’s all over now’, what is her mother’s reaction? 20. What does her mother ask her to do? How do you think her mother knew that she was ‘involved’ with another man? 21. What distracts Abigail as she is walking with her mother? 22. Who does she find smoking? 23. How is it that they are sympathetic with each other? 24. What is Ray thinking upstairs? 25. Whose house do Grandma Lynn and Abigail pass on the way home? What are their feelings about this house? 26. What does Abigail dream that night? What is the significance of this dream?

The Lovely Bones, Ch. 14 1. What was Lindsay doing for a week? 2. What did Mr. Harvey notice? 3. How had he managed to avoid the suspicion of the police? 4. Why did he go to Valley Forge Park? 5. Why does he suddenly begin to avoid the school tours? 6. Why did Lindsay pretend she had a cramp and drop behind when the team was jogging? 7. Why did she have goosebumps? 8. How does she get into the Harvey’s house? 9. What did Suzie want to make Lindsay see? 10. What does Lindsay realize as she stands alone in the basement? 11. What does the Harvey house remind Lindsay of? 12. What are some of the memories that pelt Lindsay as she runs through the house? 13. Why did Suzie think about the boy at the bus stop who didn’t know his own strength? 14. Why did Lindsay lose her breath? 15. What revealed itself to Suzie as Lindsay battles the power of the dead spirits? 16. How does Lindsay manage to continue? 17. As Lindsay enters the bedroom what doe she hear? 18. What did she find that convinced her that the sketchbook contained evidence related to Suzie’s death? 19. How does Lindsay get away? 20. What does Lindsay triumphantly bring to her father? 21. What is her mother’s reaction? 22. In heaven where does Fanny take Suzie? Why?

Vocabulary: Find the following words in the book. Read the sentence and try to figure out the meaning or a synonym from the text. If you cannot find the meaning alone, then ask a friend. If neither of you can figure out the meaning, look in a dictionary.

Cased, 174 did laps, 174 Crowding, 174 patter, 174 Obsequious, 175 buoy up, 175 Clutching, 176 feigning exhaustion, 176 Scrambled on on purpose, 178 Methodically, 179 riding piggyback, 179 Dopey, 180 ignite his desire, 180 Encased in, 180 spider’s funnel web Anchor, 180 ballast, 180 Vagrant, 181 smashed her skull, 181 Bank of a creek, 181 quarry, 181 Strangled, 182 stupor, 182 Zombies, 182 barren, 182 Displace, 182 sketchbook, 182 Ripped out 183 ripped out, 183 Stiffened, 183 blossomed, 183 Smashed out, 183 scramble, 183 Smashed out, 183 barreling, 183 Hobbling, 184 smoothed, 184 Balked, 184 shivered, 185 Crest. 186 rustling, 187

Chapter 15 1. What did Harvey’s mother get her son to do all the time? 2. Why did he participate? 3. Why were these times with his mother so special for him? 4. How did the family survive? 5. When he and his mother were sleeping in the truck one night, who drove up and woke them? What did they want? 6. How did his mother get away? 7. As he watched Lindsay escape what does he think of? 8. What does he do to protect himself? 9. What does he do immediately after the break-in? Why? 10. How does Mr. Harvey win the confidence of the police? How does he manipulate the situation in his favor? What is his explanation of the drawing? 11. What convinces the police that he is not suspicious? 12. Where does Abigail go to escape this latest discovery? Who does she go to seek solace? What does she do with Buckley? Why? 13. Who does she meet and what happens? What is Abigail’s trying to do with this act of adultery?

Vocabulary: Find the following words in the book. Read the sentence and try to figure out the meaning or a synonym from the text. If you cannot find the meaning alone, then ask a friend. If neither of you can figure out the meaning, look in a dictionary Trill, 187 trill, 1878 Scavengers, 187 graciously, 187 Sheepishly, 187 accomplice, 187 Stash, 189 fidgeted, 189 Lolling their tongues vehemently, 189 Ignition, 190 acquisitive, 190 Paced, 191 repellent, 191 Perfunctorily, 192 demeanor, 192 Churned-up, 193 overwhelming, 194 Concession, 194 raucous, 194 Stumble, 195 higgledy-piggledy, 195 Ruinous, 196 merciful adultery, 197

Chapter 16 1. What is it that Ruana intuits about her husband’s increasing absences? 2. What bothered Ruana about the future? 3. Why did Ruth go over the Ray’? 4. What was the rumor around school about Ruth and Ray? Why was this ridiculous? 5. What proposal does Ruth make to Ray? 6. What does Ruth suggest they do? How does she get Ray interested? 7. What occurred spontaneously out in the cornfield on December 7? 8. What was Abigail’s response to Lindsay’s observation about the gathering in the backyard? 9. Why didn’t those who gathered call on the Salmon family? 10. What did Lindsay realize as she talked to her mother? 11. What tender moment does Lindsay share with her mother? 12. Why does Lindsay want to take Buckley to the service? 13. What does Suzie realize about this ceremony? 14. What does Mr. O’Dwyer’s singing remind Suzie of?

Chapter 17 1. What are the things Suzie would not like to become? 2. On the night of their graduation what did Samuel & Lindsay do? 3. Why did Lindsay’s father soften his trust on Samuel? 4. When did it begin to rain? 5. What happened to Lindsay and Samuel on their way from the ceremony?

Chapter 18 1. Why did Ruth’s father call her in NYC? 2. Why will Ruth go home? 3. How had Ruth changed? How is she described now? 4. Where was she working? 5. How did she dress? 6. What does she in NYC? 7. Who was the only person from high school that she kept in contact? 8. What is her relationship with Lindsay? 9. How is her relationship with Ray? 10. Why did she like to go to the Rambles? 11. What does she see when she is sitting in the Rambles? 12. What did Buckley decide to do that summer? 13. How did Buckley choose to plant his garden? 14. What sparked as Jack picked up the clothes that Buckley was going to use to stake his tomatoes? 15. What is Buckley demanding from his father? 16. How does his father react? 17. What is the ‘die for me/don’t die for me’ game? 18. Why was this heart attack so traumatic for Buckley? 19. What was the nighttime ritual that Jack and Buckley shared? 20. Who does Buckley ask to protect his father? 21. Why does Suzie’s grandfather appear to her? What’s the purpose of his visit?

Lovely Bones, Snapshots 1. What did Suzie like about taking photos? 2. How does Abigail finally leave? 3. Who begins to look after the family? 4. How does Jack cope with Abigail’s leaving? 5. Who volunteers to come and help the family? 6. How was the diner owner a ‘law and order’ man? 7. When Lindsay went to the police department to find out what they were doing with the case, what does she discover about her mother? 8. Why did Jack close his windows in the spring and summer of 1976? 9. Why is the fort that Buckley built such a painful experience for Jack? 10. How does Buckley try to escape over the next few years? 11. What was the final evidence that proved Mr. Harvey had killed Suzie? 12. What was the best lead that Fenerman had regarding Mr. Harvey’s whereabouts? 13. What guilt does Len Fenerman carry around? 14. How does Abigail flee the past? What’s she really running away from? What is she trying to find? 15. Why is the baby lying on the beach among the rocky cliffs so disturbing for Abigail? 16. What has happened to Suzie’s memory over the next few years? 17. What does Ruana pack for Ray to take with him to Penn State? What is her hope? 18. In NYC what has become Ruth’s obsession? 19. What does Ray read about the experience of the elderly in nursing homes? 20. What had Harvey been doing all these years? 21. Why does Jack call Lynn Mata Hari? 22. What detail about Ralph Cichetti’s 49-year-old mother’s death linked her to Harvey? 23. Why is this chapter call “Snapshots”? 23. Who joins Suzie at Evenson one night?

Chapter 19

1. What message did Abigail find? 2. What did Abigail ask the operator? 3. Why was Jack Salmon in the hospital? 4. Who did Abigail called when she arrived in Chicago and whom did she ask for? 5. What did Abigail always have in her wallet? 6. What did Abigail remember on the flight to Philadelphia? 7. What was she remembering back in 1944?

Chapter 21. 1. Who was Suzy's first love? 2. Whom did Suzie talk about first kissing? 3. What did Mr. Connors cut out newspaper articles to give to Ruth? 4. Why did Ruth float her arm out?

Chapter 23 1. Why Mrs. Ruana was happy about Ray? 2. What happen between Ruth and Ray? 3. Why Ray was reading Ruth journal? And what push him to do it? 4. Leaving the room Lindsey stared at the yellows, what does the flower remind her of? 5. What word had Ruana avoided for years?