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//The Year the Swallows Came Early// by Kathryn Fitzmaurice 1. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what did the horoscope that Groovy’s mama read to her at the beginning of the story say? “ Expect the unexpected” (p. 2) 2. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what was the name of the police officer who took Groovy's dad away? Officer Miguel (p. 3) 3. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what is Groovy's given name? Eleanor Robinson (p. 10) 4. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, who nicknamed Groovy? Her father (p. 10) 5. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what did Groovy's mother keep under the kitchen sink in case an earthquake came? A box filled with pink foam curlers and free samples of cosmetics and hair products. (p. 11) 6. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, where was Groovy's mom from? Louisiana (p.12) 7. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, why was Groovy’s mom famous in their town? She had once done an old-time movie star’s hair (p. 16) 8. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what did Groovy's mom use on her roses? Listerine mouthwash (p. 19) 9. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, who called the police to arrest Groovy's dad? Groovy's mother (p. 21)

10. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what did Groovy want to go to school to study? Cooking (p. 28)

11. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what was Luis's biggest moneymaker at the Swallow Shop & Ferry? His secret-recipe tacos passed down from his Aunt Regina (p. 32)

12. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, who made swallow chalk drawings on the sidewalks? Marisol Cruz (p. 41)

13. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what did people think about Mr. Tom? They thought he was crazy (p. 51) 14. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what did Frankie need to get at the far end of the jetty in the fog? A small metal box (p. 62) 15. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what was in Frankie's green box? Postcards from his mother (p. 62)

16. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what did Groovy’s Mama suggest she do to make money? Make chocolate-covered strawberries and ask Luis to sell them at his shop (p. 74) 17. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what did Groovy’s grandmother leave her? A book, some of her writing, and $25,000 (pp. 82-84) 18. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what was Mama's idea for fixing any problem? A deep-conditioning hair treatment (p. 89) 19. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what did Groovy's dad do with her money from her great-grandmother, Eleanor Robinson? He went to the racetrack and lost all the money on a single bet (p. 99)

20. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, who showed up unexpectedly at the Swallow to see Frankie? His mother (p. 115) 21. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what happened to Frankie when he thought about his mother? His stomach would start to hurt and he would need an orange Tums (p. 119) 22. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, where did Groovy put Luis's family recipes? She taped them in her cooking notebook (p. 127)

23. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what did Marisol do when Groovy showed her the chocolate-covered strawberries? She bought some of them (p. 134) 24. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what did Groovy and Frankie find in the box marked E.R. at the back of the closet? An envelope addressed to Eleanor Robinson, a very old book written by Isaac Asimov, three stories, and another envelope with a key for a safe-deposit box (p. 151) 25. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, whose names were written on the signature card for the safe-deposit-box at the bank? Eleanor Robinson and Groovy's daddy's (p. 162)

26. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what made Groovy’s daddy’s theft of her money real to her? Her trip to the bank (pp. 169-170) 27. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what made Groovy decide to ask people to start calling her Eleanor instead of Groovy? Her daddy had given her the nickname Groovy, and she was mad at him after she went to the bank (p. 171) 28. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what things did Groovy stop doing after she went to the bank? She stopped doing a good job in school, she stopped cooking, she stopped making the chocolate-covered strawberries to sell, and she stopped allowing people to call her Groovy (pp. 173-174; 177) 29. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, why was Mr. Tom leaving? Because he got a trailer on an island (p. 188) 30. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what did Groovy think Mr. Tom was trying to tell her? To forgive her Daddy (p. 197) 31. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what did Frankie call the first swallow to fly in to town and then fly back to guide the rest of the flock? The scout (p. 201) 32. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what was in the envelope Frankie's mother tried to give him? A copy of her green card (p. 204) 33. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, why had Frankie’s mom left him? She didn’t have a green card so she had to leave the United States, but she wanted Frankie to stay and go to school (p. 205) 34. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what did Marisol show Eleanor that made her want to make chocolate-covered strawberries again? Three strawberries covered in chocolate, each with a tiny bird drawn in white chocolate (p. 211) 35. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, where did the swallows come to? The San Juan Capistrano Mission (p. 216) 36. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, why did Mr. Tom tell Eleanor to tell her Daddy thank you? Mr. Tom won a trailer from him in a card game (p. 228) 37. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what happened when Eleanor and her mother had lunch at Jose's Cantina? There was an earthquake (p. 241)

38. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what did Eleanor’s mom do with the newspaper after the earthquake? She threw it away because the horoscopes didn’t predict the earthquake (p. 249) 39. In the book //The Year the Swallows Came Early//, what did Ms. Dixon-Green, the librarian, help Eleanor do with her great-grandmother's stories? She helped her bind them into a book (p. 263)