Find the last sentence in paragraph 6: "I pricked up my ears, for it was positively the first time I had ever heard a foreign tongue."

What does "tongue" mean in this context?

Find the last paragraph, where the boy is riding in a wagon under a buffalo skin. "Cautiously I slipped from under the buffalo hide, got up on my knees and peered over the side of the wagon."

What does "peered" mean in this context?

What is the main idea of this chapter?

The first sentence of Chapter 1 says, "I first heard of Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America." Who does "I" refer to in this sentence?

Who is traveling with the boy?

Who else gets off the train at Black Hawk?

How does the narrator describe the outdoor surroundings at Black Hawk?

Find the last sentence in paragraph 6: "I pricked up my ears, for it was positively the first time I had ever heard a foreign tongue."

What does "tongue" mean in this context?

Find the last paragraph, where the boy is riding in a wagon under a buffalo skin. "Cautiously I slipped from under the buffalo hide, got up on my knees and peered over the side of the wagon."

What does "peered" mean in this context?

What is this chapter mainly about?

The narrator is there at the school to visit two "fearful sites." One is the marble stairs in the First Academy Building. What is the other?

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Chapter 1 has two sections. The second section is a flashback. How many years separate the events narrated in these two sections?

Where is Devon School located?

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The narrator notices something about the marble stairs that wasn't obvious to him when he was a student attending school there. What characteristic of the stairs does he notice?

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In the second section of Chapter 1, which is a flashback in time, what does Phineas dare the other boys to do?