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//House of Dance// By Beth Kephart 1. In the book //House of Dance//, who is the author? Beth Kephart 2. In the book //House of Dance//, what is on Rosie's ceiling? Glow in the dark dots that are connected to create constellations p. 1 3. In the book //House of Dance//, what did Rosie's mother do to support them? She worked for Mr. Paul washing windows. p. 2 4. In the book //House of Dance//, how did Rosie get to her grandfather’s house? She walked p. 3 5. In the book //House of Dance//, what was Rosie's responsibility while her mother was at work? She was to take care of her grandfather. p. 3 6. In the book //House of Dance//, what did Rosie's grandfather like to read? //National Geographic// p. 5 7. In the book //House of Dance//, when Rosie got to her grandfather’s what did he want her to do? He wanted her to sort through all his stuff and get it in order. p.24 8. In the book //House of Dance//, why was Rosie worried about her Mom and Grandad? They had an argument and had not been speaking to each other lately. p. 6 9. In the book //House of Dance//, when walking home from her Grandad's, what did Rosie notice in the upstairs window at the intersection in town and the railroad tunnel? A row of large lit up windows, no curtains and mirrors with people dancing. The music was from another country. p. 20 10. In the book //House of Dance//, what did Rosie find while going through her Grandad's magazines? That he had triple stacked his books and in between his books he had stuffed papers and ribbons and things. He said it was his personal filing system. p. 37 11. In the book //House of Dance//, how did Rosie sort her Grandfather's "stuff"? She set up a system of 3 baskets; one for In Trust, one for Toss and one for Decide Later. p. 43 12. In the book //House of Dance//, how did Rosie decide what she would put in each of the baskets she set up for going through her Grandfather's things? In the "In Trust" basket she would put anything she thought might have been important to her Grandad, things from his past. p. 43 13. In the book //House of Dance//, what kinds of items were going into the "In Trust" basket at Rosie's grandfathers house? Photographs, antique coins, braided ribbons, postcards and letters. Things that she would go through later to learn more about her grandfather. p. 43 14. In the book //House of Dance//, what did Rosie discover on the top shelves at her Grandfather's house while sorting his things? A stash of old vinyl records that were inside cardboard sleeves with the names of the artist on them. p. 45 15. In the book //House of Dance//, how did Rosie and Leisha become friends? They were assigned to work on a 9th grade project together. p. 47 16. In the book //House of Dance//, while Leisha and Rosie were working on their project, what did they see? Rosie's mom and Mr. Paul in an embrace and kissing. p. 50 17. In the book //House of Dance//, why was Rosie not usually in a big hurry to leave her Grandad's? There was no one for her to go home to. Mom was not often home until late. p. 53 18. In the book //House of Dance//, one evening as Rosie walked home from her Grandad's she noticed a person with a bunch of balloons walking down the sidewalk. What did she find when she followed him? A flight of stairs, photographs of female dancers in brightly colored costumes and men in tuxedos and a brightly colored poster reading "//House of Dance//" p. 57 19. In the book //House of Dance//, where did Rosie get her pink princess phone? From her dad with a note to call anytime p. 58 20. In the book //House of Dance//, what was Rosie's friend Leisha doing for the summer? She was at the shore with cousins and she was babysitting the younger cousins. p. 59 21. In the book //House of Dance//, who was Nick? Another friend of Rosie's. He works on cars at his father's garage. p. 30 22. In the book //House of Dance//, how did Nick and Rosie become friends? He would make airplanes that would constantly get trapped in trees and places. Rosie would rescue them for him so he could fix them up and fly again. p. 30 23. In the book //House of Dance//, what happened to Rosie's dad? He left her and her mom. p. 63 24. In the book //House of Dance//, how did Rosie describe her dad? Big, tall, half Italian, like a celebrity p. 64 25. In the book //House of Dance//, how did Rosie deal with her dads coming and going? She would make up stories about him riding elephants in India, being an astronaut, digging up Egyptian mummies. p. 64 26. In the book //House of Dance//, who was Teresa? A nurse Rosie's grandfather had hired to help take care of him. p. 76 27. In the book //House of Dance//, why did Rosie's mom want her to help take care of her Grandad? He had cancer and was dying. p. 28. In the book //House of Dance//, why was Rosie so upset about Teresa being at her Grandad's? She felt like she was being replaced. p. 76 29. In the book //House of Dance//, how was Rosie going to play the albums she found at her Grandad's? She found an antique stereo she decided to fix. p. 80 30. In the book //House of Dance//, what did Rosie's Grandad tell her about the stereo? It was the one thing that would stop her mother from crying when she was a baby. p. 84 31. In the book //House of Dance//, why was Rosie so upset about her mom seeing Mr. Paul? He was married with two children of his own. p. 94 32. In the book //House of Dance//, what did Rosie want to give her Grandad? His memories back. p. 98 33. In the book //House of Dance//, what was Rosie's first part of the plan to give her Grandad back his memories? To learn to dance p. 99 34. In the book //House of Dance//, who was Max? The owner of //House of Dance// and a champion dancer p. 110-111 35. In the book //House of Dance//, what changes did Teresa make at Rosie's grandad's house? She brought in a wheel chair and a hospital bed and rearranged the house so that everything he needed was on one level. p. 130-131 36. In the book //House of Dance//, for what had Rosie's dad taken her to Miss Marie's when she was a little girl? To get her a velvet dress and her mother a white wool coat. p. 147 37. In the book //House of Dance//, how had Rosie broken her wrist? Climbing a tree to rescue the neighbor’s cat. p. 154-155 38. In the book //House of Dance//, who was Marissa? One of the dancers at the //House of Dance// p. 109 39. In the book //House of Dance//, what did Marissa give Rosie? A pair of dancing shoes p. 164. 40. In the book //House of Dance//, what was Rosie planning for her grandfather? A party that included things from his past that would bring back good memories. p. 178 41. In the book //House of Dance//, how was Rosie paying for her Grandad's party? With money she had been putting back that her father sent her every week. She had refused to use any of his money until now. p. 42. In the book //House of Dance//, what did her grandfather seem to regret most of all from his past? That he had not taken her grandmother to the places she had wanted to see. Then she died before he was able to take her places. p. 171 43. In the book //House of Dance//, what did the little girl on the train give Nick? Her kitten hair barrettes from her hair p. 196 44. In the book //House of Dance//, what did Nick make for the little girl from the things she gave him? He linked the barrettes all together and made her a bracelet. p. 198 45. In the book //House of Dance//, why had Teresa come to America and become a nurse? When she was ten her mother died suddenly and everything changed at her home. Her father became sad and ignored her. p. 210 46. In the book //House of Dance//, what did Rosie find while cleaning out her Grandad's closet? A doll. Her grandfather said it was her mother's favorite doll. p. 234 47. In the book //House of Dance//, what was the name of her mother's favorite doll? Rosie p. 234 48. In the book //House of Dance//, where did the doll Rosie found come from? Her grandmother made it for her mother before she was born. p. 235 49. In the book //House of Dance//, where did Rosie have Nick sit while watching the dance practice that she had planned for her Grandad's party? On the window sill, because she said it was the best seat in the house, a bird’s eye view. p. 238 50. In the book //House of Dance//, when Rosie was five or six her dad took them on a vacation. What was the adventure her dad talked about on the board walk? The ferris wheel ride p. 246 51. In the book //House of Dance//, when Rosie got home from the last rehearsal from the //House of Dance// what did she discover? Her mom was home and was crying because she had decided not to see Mr. Paul anymore. p. 247 52. In the book //House of Dance//, what did Rosie tell her mother the "in trust" was? Her grandfather's story p. 255 53. In the book //House of Dance//, what were the dances Rosie was bringing to the party? The rumba from Cuba, the samba from Brazil, the tango from Argentina p. 261 54. In the book //House of Dance//, how was the house decorated for the party? The house was decorated with flowers of bright colors, the dancers were all in bright costumes of the countries they represented, they had moved her Grandad's bed against the wall and the wheelchair with the cushion was in the middle of the room with a chair for Rosie's mother. p. 260-261 55. In the book //House of Dance//, other than the party, what was the last thing Rosie did at her grandfather's? She and her mother took out all the things she had placed "In Trust" and took them home for her to go through later. p. 256-257