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Question #5
What makes Stuart think that this will "be a fine day"?
Question #6
Stuart gives the repairman this description: "She comes from fields once tall with wheat, from pastures deep in fern and thistle; she comes from vales of meadowsweet, and she loves to whistle."
Who is Stuart describing?
Question #7
Which direction does the repairman think is different from all the rest?
Question #8
Find the section where Stuart pays for the gas in his car. "Stuart's car purred along smoothly."
What does "purred" mean in this sentence?
Question #9
Find the same section again where Stuart gets into his car after paying for the gas. the author writes, "Half a mile out of town the road forked."
Which word means the same as "forked" in this sentence?
Question #10
Stuart enjoys talking with the repairman. How do we know this?
Question #11
At the end of the chapter, Stuart feels hopeful. How do we know this?
Question #12
The author, E. B. White, has writes, "But real life is only one kind of life — there is also the life of the imagination."
What do you think he means?
Question #13
Throughout the book, E. B. White has given us many beautiful descriptions. These descriptions show that he is a keen observer of something.
What does he observe so well?