| 1. | What is Garland Farm? What is a commune? What do you know about the 1960s? What are hippies? |
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| 2. | What happened to Rain, and how did her accident change Cap’s life? |
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| 3. | Where are Cap’s parents? What is the Peace Corps? |
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| 4. | Who is Mrs. Donnelly? Why did she decide that he would stay with her instead of with the family Social Services assigned to take him in? |
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| 5. | How did Cap end up in the principal’s office on his first day of school? |
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| 6. | Is information the same as experience? Why or why not? |
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| 7. | Think about all the people in your grade at school last year. How many of their names do you know? |
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| 8. | How did Cap find out he’d been nominated to run for class president? What does Cap think about government? |
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| 9. | Would you rather be homeschooled at Garland Farm or attend Claverage Middle School, and why? |
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| 10. | What can you use duct tape for? |
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| 11. | How did Cap try to make friends with Sophie? How did the driving lesson go? |
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| 12. | How did Cap save the bus driver’s life, and why did he get in trouble for ir? |
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| 13. | Why was Hugh Winkleman so excited to be anonymous? |
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| 14. | What is Trigonometry & Tears, and why is Cap so fascinated by it? |
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| 15. | How did Cap organize the Halloween dance? |
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| 16. | How did Cap feel when he went into the bank with Mr. Kasigi? Why was giving a checkbook to Cap, without any instructions, a terrible idea? |
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| 17. | Who really sent Sophie the bracelet? Why did he do it? |
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| 18. | What did Cap use the checkbook for, after Mr. Kasigi told him to use it “responsibly”? What was he supposed to use it for? |
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| 19. | What did Darryl mean when he said that “Cap Anderson had quality”? What is “quality”? |
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| 20. | Why did Garland Farm look different to Cap after his time in the “real world”? |
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| 21. | How did Naomi and her friends find out what happened to Cap and why the Halloween dance was cancelled? |
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| 22. | How did Zach Powers become “public enemy number one” at Claverage Middle School? What was his plan to regain his former “popular” status? |
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| 23. | Once Cap was back at Garland, what did he miss from his time in Claverage? Why? And why did it upset Rain so much that he missed it? |
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| 24. | Describe Cap’s “memorial service”. What did the kids at C Average Middle School learn from him? |
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| 25. | What happened to Garland Farm? Why did Rain decide to sell it? |
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