Quiz

A. Please write specifically about Mary's feelings about her grandmother. What are some of her grandmother's habits? What does she suffer from? What does she think about Mary and Lecia? What does she reveal to Mary about Mary's mother?

If you cannot remember the answers to these questions, don't despair. Write as much as you can about the relationship.

B. Briefly, What causes Mary and her family to run from Leechfield? What happens on the bridge?

A. Mary did not hide that she does not like her grandmother. She mentioned when first talking about her grandma that she always had chores for Mary and Lecia to do. From that point Mary did not really like her grandmother. Her Grandmother in return would always say that Mary and Lecia were heathen children and always have them spanked by their mother. The Grandmother had to stay at their house because she had cancer. She went to the hospital for treatment, and it led to he leg being taken off. She always thought that Mary and Lecia were up to no good, therefore all the spankings. Lecia would reason it out saying that they had done something bad earlier so what pointless thing their grandmother had them punished for makes up for it. The truth was their mother only spanked them when prompted to by their grandmother. At the end before they attempt to get out of hurricane Carla, Mary is shown 2 pictures by her grandmother of her Mother's previos children. Mary was told that if she wasn't good she would lose her mother forever, because these 2 children did. Mary didn't want to believe it and ran out of the room. Her mother didn't want to believe it either. Mary said they entered amnesia together.


Mary and her family are trying to leave Leechfield because of hurricane Carla. They had stayed in their house far too long because their grandmother had been convinced it was a light rain and would pass soon. Driving at away to there Auntie Iris's house, they were going on a bridge that Mary had described as being launched up a hill of a rollercoaster. Her mother, either provoked by Mary's scream or no (depending on if her or Lecia is telling the story) pulled the wheel sharply to the left and they end up flipping the car around doing donuts. They hit a gaurd rail and the mother called out "everyone all right" and drove away with minimal damage.