A Year Down Yonder

Question 1

What did Grandma begin doing with the first snow?

Accepted Answer

trapping

Question 2

What was the train station Mary Alice left from?

Accepted Answer

Dearborn Station

Question 3

A tornado siren went off while Mary Alice was at school, why did she go home?

Accepted Answer

to make sure her Grandmother was alright

Question 4

Why did Grandma agree to make tarts for the DAR's George Washington's birthday party?

Accepted Answer

to embarrass Mes. Weidenbach for being a snob

Question 5

What was Grandma's Christmas gift to Mary Alice?

Accepted Answer

Joey and a trip to Chicago

Question 6

Why was Grandma so different right before graduation... what did she have to do?

Accepted Answer

She had to make Mary Alice leave and go home

Question 7

What did Grandma use to lure foxes to her traps?

Accepted Answer

urine

Question 8

After Grandma rescued Old Man Nyquist he said

Accepted Answer

Grandma would be hurting for pecans this fall

Question 9

How did Grandma know the baby in the manger was a Burdick?

Accepted Answer

it had one blue and one green eye

Question 10

At the end, you could tell that Mary Alice had come to love her Grandma deeply, how?

Accepted Answer

she chose to get married at her home

Question 11

Royce came over to help Mary Alice, what broke up their study session?

Accepted Answer

Maxine Patch running downstairs with a snake on her

Question 12

What did Mr. Fluke do besides be the principal, a coach, and the janitor?

Accepted Answer

taught shop

Question 13

Why did Grandma and Mary Alice go to the turkey shoot on Armistice Day?

Accepted Answer

for the burgoo

Question 14

Why did Mildred follow Mary Alice home?

Accepted Answer

she was owed a dollar

Question 15

Why did Mary Alice cut Ina-Rae a bigger piece of pie?

Accepted Answer

she was wan and drawn

Question 16

Mary Alice wanted Royce to help her with math, she also liked him. She wrote him a note...

Accepted Answer

he said ok, Mary Alice kept it

Question 17

Then, it was not unusual to have a teacher to dinner, why did Grandma really want Miss Butler

Accepted Answer

To fix Arnold Green up with Miss Butler

Question 18

Why did Mary Alice send Ina-Rae valentines and pretend they were from "secret admirers"?

Accepted Answer

to make Carleen Lovejoy mad

Question 19

What did Grandma go to get Mildred's grandma, so she could untie the horse

Accepted Answer

jam

Question 20

Who was the author?

Accepted Answer

Richard Peck

Question 21

Why did no body speak when they went to see Mrs. Abernathy's son?

Accepted Answer

there was nothing to say

Question 22

How did Grandma raise so much money for Mrs. Abernathy and her son?

Accepted Answer

she refused to give change

Question 23

Where was Mary Alice's brother?

Accepted Answer

with the CCC

Question 24

When they went looking for Effie Wilcox, they did not find her right away, where was she?

Accepted Answer

she went to use Grandma's privy

Question 25

Why would Mildred not be in school the next day?

Accepted Answer

she would have to walk

Question 26

What did grandma do with the knife she got from the "Halloween Pransters"?

Accepted Answer

she cut pies at the Halloween party

Question 27

Grandma went to save something before the tornado hit, what was it?

Accepted Answer

Bootie and April

Question 28

Who wrote "Newsy Note"?

Accepted Answer

Mary Alice

Question 29

What did Mary Alice carry her cat in on the train?

Accepted Answer

picnic basket

Question 30

Why was Arnold Green in town for a month?

Accepted Answer

he was painting a mural on the post officie

Question 31

Grandma stole her ingredients for the pies. How did she get the pecans?

Accepted Answer

drove the farmer's tractor into the tree

Question 32

Where did Mary Alice and Grandma go after she was picked up at the station

Accepted Answer

to school

A Year Down Yonder

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A Year Down Yonder

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