Hummingbird

Hummingbird By Kimberly Greene Angle 1. In the book //Hummingbird//, what did Grenna name the hummingbird that stayed at March Anne’s house during the winter? Zipp (p. 160) 2. In the book //Hummingbird//, where does March Anne live? In Jubilee, Georgia or on a watermelon farm (p. 3) 3. In the book //Hummingbird//, who are March Anne’s best friends? Meg and Laverne (p. 9) 4. In the book //Hummingbird//, what is the name of the subdivision where Meg and Laverne live? Sunny Brooke Acres (p. 10) 5. In the book //Hummingbird//, what is the name of the secret society March Anne and her friends have created in the woods? The Pseudonymphs (pp. 10-11) 6. In the book //Hummingbird//, what is the name of the tree where the Pseudonymphs meet? Maranatha (p. 11) 7. In the book //Hummingbird//, what is the primary ritual of the Pseudonymphs each season? They change their names (p. 13) 8. In the book //Hummingbird//, what was the name of March Anne’s daddy’s truck? Comet (p. 16) 9. In the book //Hummingbird//, where did March Anne’s family go for lunch every Sunday? Burma’s Biscuit Barn (p. 17) 10. In the book //Hummingbird//, what does March Anne call her grandmother? Grenna (p. 3) 11. In the book //Hummingbird//, what was the name of March Anne’s mule? Spunky (p. 23) 12. In the book //Hummingbird//, what sport did March Anne’s mule Spunky play with her brother Kevin? Soccer (pp. 23-24) 13. In the book //Hummingbird//, what did the children think about their neighbor Crabapple Crutcher? They thought she was a witch who ate pets (pp. 27-28) 14. In the book //Hummingbird//, what animal was Benjamin Hartwell always following? A hawk (p. 30) 15. In the book //Hummingbird//, what was unusual to March Anne about the sound of the train? She thought it was talking to her (p. 31) 16. In the book //Hummingbird//, what did March Anne’s family usually do on Monday nights? Play //Scrabble// (p. 33) 17. In the book //Hummingbird//, when March Anne’s family played //Scrabble//, who usually won? Grenna (p. 33) 18. In the book //Hummingbird//, what did March Anne’s family grow on their farm? Watermelons and pumpkins (p. 35) 19. In the book //Hummingbird//, what did March Anne’s family farm need to pollinate the melons? The honeybees from their neighbor (p. 35) 20. In the book //Hummingbird//, what did Grenna do on her honeymoon? She rode in a train from Chattanooga to Virginia where it was spring again (p. 42) 21. In the book //Hummingbird//, what was the name of the train Grenna rode on for her honeymoon? //Dreamliner// (p. 42) 22. In the book //Hummingbird//, what happened to Grenna right after the July watermelon pruning? She had a heart attack (p. 48) 23. In the book //Hummingbird//, what did Grenna always win a blue ribbon for at the Watermelon Festival? Her watermelon rind pickles (p. 58) 24. In the book //Hummingbird//, what did Kevin do when Grenna’s pickles didn’t win the blue ribbon? He put their dad’s blue ribbon on Grenna’s pickles and told her she won (p. 68) 25. In the book //Hummingbird//, what job does Grenna turn over to March Anne on her birthday? Inspecting the melons to see if they are ripe and ready to harvest (p. 71) 26. In the book //Hummingbird//, what did March Anne and her friends find when they were digging under their favorite tree? A train track (p. 78) 27. In the book //Hummingbird//, what was March Anne’s favorite subject in school? Science (p. 82) 28. In the book //Hummingbird//, after Grenna became sick, what did March Anne have to do to take more responsibility around the house? She had to cook dinner (p. 85) 29. In the book //Hummingbird//, what were the names of the barn owls? Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (p. 86) 30. In the book //Hummingbird//, where did March Anne’s family get the seeds for their watermelons? They saved them from their watermelons (pp. 96-97) 31. In the book //Hummingbird//, what did March Anne’s dad say was the most important thing to have to survive in case of a disaster? Seeds (p. 98) 32. In the book //Hummingbird//, what was the topic of March Anne and Benjamin’s science fair project? Squash beetle poison (p. 108) 33. In the book //Hummingbird//, where did the squash beetle poison recipe come from? Kevin found it in the closet in a coat pocket on an index card a friend had given to Grenna (p. 113) 34. In the book //Hummingbird//, who bought one of March Anne’s pies at the Pumpkin Patch? Benjamin Hartwell (p. 134) 35. In the book //Hummingbird//, where did March Anne and her friends go on Halloween night? To Crabapple Crutcher’s shack (pp. 137-138) 36. In the book //Hummingbird//, what happened after March Anne told her science teacher about the hummingbird? Scientists and reporters started showing up to see the hummingbird (p. 161) 37. In the book //Hummingbird//, what did Grenna call her walker? Ellie (p. 56) 38. In the book //Hummingbird//, why did Grenna call her walker Ellie? Because it reminded her of a skinny elephant (p. 56) 39. In the book //Hummingbird//, who became upset when March Anne’s family chopped down the cedar tree for Christmas? The hummingbird (p. 168) 40. In the book //Hummingbird//, why did March Anne’s family decide to leave their Christmas tree outside? Because it was Zipp’s (the hummingbird’s) home (p. 169) 41. In the book //Hummingbird//, what did March Anne and her friends make for Grenna? A white flannel night gown (p. 172) 42. In the book //Hummingbird//, what was the problem for Zipp on Christmas Eve? The weather forecasters predicted snow and a deep freeze (p. 179) 43. In the book //Hummingbird//, what did March Anne, Kevin, and their dad do to help Zipp during the snowstorm? She rode the mule in to town to buy an extra feeder (p. 181) and they changed his feeder every 30 minutes to keep the nectar from freezing (p. 185) 44. In the book //Hummingbird//, what happened to Laverne’s Christmas charm? The crows stole it and put in their nest (pp. 200-201) 45. In the book //Hummingbird//, what was the word that March Anne always thought of when she thought of Benjamin Hartwell? “Weird” (p. 204) 46. In the book //Hummingbird//, what made Crabapple Crutcher act like a witch? She never got over losing her parents and her land so she became bitter (p. 208) 47. In the book //Hummingbird//, who was taking the food from March Anne’s family’s garden? Crabapple Crutcher (pp. 208-209) 48. In the book //Hummingbird//, when Grenna died, what did March Anne go into the woods to do? To dig up the train track and see where it went (p. 215) 49. In the book //Hummingbird//, when March Anne was digging up the train track in the woods, who came to help her? Her dad and Kevin (p. 220) 50. In the book //Hummingbird//, what did March Anne find at the end of the train tracks? The //Dreamliner// railroad sleeper car where her grandparents had lived (p. 222) 51. In the book //Hummingbird//, what had happened to March Anne’s mother? She had died of cancer (p. 224) 52. In the book //Hummingbird//, what nickname had March Anne’s grandfather called Grenna? Hummingbird (p. 228) 53. In the book //Hummingbird//, what nickname had March Anne’s mother called March Anne? Hummingbird (p. 233) 54. In the book //Hummingbird//, what did Benjamin finally find while chasing his hawk? A hawk feather (p. 238) 55. In the book //Hummingbird//, what did March Anne and her friends decide to do at their last meeting? Not change their names any more (pp. 242-243)