Thursday, June 20, 2013

Finn and Jake #13

Here are some study questions for the story, What Ever Happened to the Baxter Place?  Use your book to look up the answers.  You don't have to write them, just review them.

1)  What is this story mostly about?

2)  What was the Baxter Place made of in the beginning of the story?

3)  What did the Homestead Realty Company do with the land?

4)  What did Jess Hammil do with the land?  First he________ then he_____________.

5)  George Stillwell rented land from the Baxters.  What happened to it?

6)  We find out that it is a little sad at the end of the story.  Why can't people say what happened to the Baxter Place?  What had happened to it?

7)  What was the first change made to the Baxter Place?

8)  Sara asked Homestead Realty to save some of the trees when they built the new houses. What happened?

9)  What did people used to say about the Baxter Place?

10)  What was the final change to the Baxter Place?

11)  What was the reason for the Baxters for selling their land?

12)  If you were the Baxters would you sell the land?

13)  Do you think that the Baxters were sorry that they had sold the land?