| 1. | How is Mary Alice's life in the country different from what her life in the city might have been like? |
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| 2. | How does Grandma Dowdel show people she actually cares about them? |
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| 3. | How does the author use humor and exaggeration to create "larger than life" characters? |
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| 4. | Why did Grandma take Mary Alice to meet the Abernathys? |
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| 5. | How does Mary Alice change over the course of the year?
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| 6. | What kinds of things about Grandma will Mary Alice "carry with me through my life"? |
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| 7. | Why doesn't Grandma let Mary Alice stay with her at the end of the year? |
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| 8. | Do you have a grandparent or other older relative that you could describe as being a "character" like Grandma D., or even "larger than life"?? |
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