Part One - Chapter 3
What is Nick's connection to the plantation? Why was he living in London?
Vocabulary:
drone (2)
maneuver (6)
frail (9)
liberate (15)
immaculate (21)
brash (33)
Chapters 4 - 6
List details you have learned about raising and training elephants. Are there questions you have that have not been answered?
Vocabulary:
wallow (38)
inevitable (40)
strident (44)
grimace (48)
urly (57)
fetter (57)
Chapters 7 - 9
Whta do you feel about Nick's fathers decision to free elephants and fight the Japanese? What do you think his chances for survival are?
Vocabulary:
rant (62)
eavsdrop (70)
gait (72)
implae (79)
prosperity (81)
acclimate (83)
ruse (84)
Chapters 10 - 12
How is Hawk's Nest taken? Who was responsible? What will happen to the people of the village?
Vocabulary:
edible (101)
dawdle (106)
imperceptible (109)
maim (112)
subside (115)
stoic (119)
Part Two - Chapter 15
What is your opinion of the Japanese soldiers? Are they bad? Are the Burmese good? Are the people of the village more or less happy after the invasion?
Vocabulary:
charade (128)
rout (129)
ardent (130)
confiscate (134)
leery (140)
distraught (141)
Chapters 16 - 19
How are Nick and Mya able to escape? Are they suspected? Where will they go?
Vocabulary:
protrude (157)
agile (158)
accost (167)
arrogant (174)
toil (177)
compel (186)
Chapters 20 - 22
What information does Nick acquire abofut the treatment of prisoners? How does this fit with what you know of World War 2?
perish (190)
armaments (191)
gored (192)
reluctant (199)
thrive (209)
ordain (221)
Chapters 23 - 24
How are the common people of Burma treated? How do they treat others?
Vocabulary:
fester (236)
canopy (239)
confiscate (240)
Chapters 25 - 27
Is Kya Lei to be trusted? Who does he work for? Who is he against?
Vocabulary:
elusive (247)
sentry (255)
feign (258)
vain (260)
gaunt (263)
fringe (272)
Chapters 28 - 29
What is the plan to save Nick's father? Explain as much as you understand.
Vocabulary:
vender (279)
deception (286)
treason (287)
confront (295)
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