My Antonia 1-17

He made the sign of the cross over me, put on his cap and went off in the dark. As we turned back to the sitting-room, grandfather looked at me searchingly. `The prayers of all good people are good,' he said quietly.

ID the he:

What happens on Jim's birthday?

_____________'s eyes were not at all like those of an old man; they were bright blue, and had a fresh, frosty sparkle. His teeth were white and regular--so sound that he had never been to a dentist in his life. He had a delicate skin, easily roughened by sun and wind. When he was a young man his hair and beard were red; his eyebrows were still coppery.

ID HE

`Te-e-ach, te-e-ach my Antonia!'

ID speaker

Jim manages to get away from the house in winter using

On Otto's journey from Austria to the United States, he got suspicious and questioning looks because

Pavel's translated story told to Jim the night of his death is one of

One of the reasons for discussion about Mr. Shimerda's burial:

How do we know that Antonia would like to go to school instead of working so hard in the fields, really?

MUCH AS I LIKED Antonia, I hated a superior tone that she sometimes took with me. She was four years older than I, to be sure, and had seen more of the world; but I was a boy and she was a girl, and I resented her protecting manner. Before the autumn was over, she began to treat me more like an equal and to defer to me in other things than reading lessons. This change came about from an adventure we had together.

What is the adventure?

Why were the Shimerdas dependent on Peter Kjajiek?

What does Jim make for a Christmas gift for the Shimerda girls when they couldn't get into town for presents?

He was a strapping young fellow in the early twenties then, handsome, warm-hearted, and full of life, and he came to us like a miracle in the midst of that grim business. I remember exactly how he strode into our kitchen in his felt boots and long wolfskin coat, his eyes and cheeks bright with the cold.

ID he:

Grandmother called my attention to a stout hickory cane, tipped with copper, which hung by a leather thong from her belt. This, she said, was her ________cane. I must never go to the garden without a heavy stick or a corn-knife . . .

What must one be careful of in the garden?

Where is Mr. Shimerda buried?

He might have stepped out of the pages of `Jesse James.' He wore a sombrero hat, with a wide leather band and a bright buckle, and the ends of his moustache were twisted up stiffly, like little horns. He looked lively and ferocious, I thought, and as if he had a history. A long scar ran across one cheek and drew the corner of his mouth up in a sinister curl. The top of his left ear was gone, and his skin was brown as an Indian's. Surely this was the face of a desperado.

ID he

What gift did the Shimerda's give the Burdens in the difficult winter when they had not much of anything?

Grandfather's __________ were often very interesting. He had the gift of simple and moving expression. Because he talked so little, his words had a peculiar force; they were not worn dull from constant use. His _________reflected what he was thinking about at the time, and it was chiefly through them that we got to know his feelings and his views about things.