english test chapters 10-17 Flashcards
Who does the Zealand women call ‘primitive’?
David and his group, Waknuk
What do they think happened to Katherine?
Katherine has been unconscious for such a long time, they think she is dead.
What does Michael say it is better to do then let them be captured?
Michael says it is better to kill Rosalind and Petra than to let them be captured
Everybody in Sealand can . . .
Make thought-shapes, and anyone who cannot work hard to be able to.
What does the Sealand woman stress?
She stresses the importance to keep Petra alive and safe
Who did Anne announce she would marry and what was her reason?
She announced she would marry Alan Ervin and instead of waiting for someone that might not come or who she might hate if they do come, she will marry Alan Ervin.
What does David think of marrying someone that cannot produce thought-shapes?
David says there would be misery, insecurity, lack of confidence, and guarding against slipping up. It would be prolonged unhappiness and frustration until a fatal slip up
Rosalind and David are in a _________ _______________ but cannot _________ because of their _________ __________
secret
relationship
marry
family
feud (between Angus Morton and Joseph Strorm)
Anne stopped doing what after she announced to marry?
Respond to the group’s thought shapes
What question does Axel ask David regarding Anne marrying?
Axel asks if Anne has the moral right to endanger eight for her own selfish pursuit.
What does Axel propose doing to Anne and how does David respond?
Axel proposes killing Anne. David says he couldn’t because it be like “violating a part of yourself forever”
What crops has Joseph Strorm given up to promote himself as a pure family?
His dad has given up the solanaceae family (tomatoes) to have more pure crops. They buy their potatoes and tomatoes
What happens to Alan?
One day, Sunday at Dusk, Alan was found dead in the field path that led to his home, with an arrow through his neck.
What happens to Anne after Alan’s death?
Rachel tries to see her sister but Anne screams at Rachel to go away.
Rachels mother tries to persuade Anne to come home
Anne became hysterical and forced everyone out of her house, Rachel had gotten up an hour before dawn and went to Anne’s house. She knocked but no-one answered, so she went to a neighbor’s house who was with Anne, and the neighbors with Anne found her upstairs in her bedroom, hanged.
What does the Anne’s suicide note say and what did Rachel do to the note?
the letter denounced all of the group and accused them of planning Alan’s murder and carrying it out. Rachel burned it.
The spring the year of Anne’s death is . . .
is especially good, with good weather and extremely low crop deviations
What does Petra do, and what happens?
Petra sends a distress call and it is described as a blot that Petra had no control over, David grabbed the gun from the house door, and saddled up on a horse, Rosalind and Michael kill the animal that is eating Petra’s pony. Three others of their group arrive, they are sent back, Sally and Katherine come, and Jerome Skinner arrives.
What happens when Jerome Skinner comes?
He asks what is happening, asks for Rosalind and Petra’s tags, says to be careful and leaves. Rosalind says ‘This man had the air of smelling a rat’
How does David describe parts of Wild Country?
Three or four miles farther they came out into more open country, dotted with bushes, brakes, and thickets. The grass was coarse and large-leafed, and in some places monstrous, growing into tuffs ten feet high
What does David see in Wild Country?
David sees four of five women and a couple of men gathered around a horse. They were arguing about it
What does David see that encourages him he is in Wild Country?
They see deviated oats that would be burnt at home
What happens at the start of Chapter 13?
They are attacked by a man on a horse, but they kill his horse and he is flung into bushes. They pass him.
How does Waknuk find the man Rosalind shot?
his dog found him and they came across the great horse tracks.
How does David teach Petra to form thought-shapes?
He tells her to close her eyes and look down a deep deep well, not thinking about anything but how deep and dark it is. He makes a bunny, then Petra tries to make an image but its like a thunderbolt
Then Petra tries to make a image and its a flash and a glare like a thunderbolt. She makes a fish with a droopy tail.
What is the physical description of the Deviated animal eating Petra’s pony
deviated flesh eating creature, reddish brown, dappled with yellow and darker brown spots, with pad like feet and covered with mops of fur, with long curved claws, fur hung from the tail, nose almost retrousse, two large incisors projected towards the lower jaw that was eating Petra’s pony.
What happens in Petra’s fourth lesson and by the end of the week?
In the fourth lesson she managed to clear her mind without closing her eyes, and by the end of the week she was improving and she starts to be able to recept simple forms.
What does Axel tell David after he asks him to give him a hand?
Axel asks if David has been careless, and asks why David thinks Joe Darley has been asking questions about him and Rosalind. He says he came across that Petra was a thought shape, and he knows because Anne told Alan about all of them.
Axel says he killed Alan, and after David tells him about Jerome Skinner, he says he’ll look into him.
What does the conversation revolve around later after Axel talks to him?
Michael Says if Jerome is the source of the suspicions he must have put this as a report to the inspector and several people are wondering about it. He says hell see what he can do, and not to do anything unusual
What does Michael say to David during their conversation?
Michael says David will have to see that Petra isn’t taken into questioning at any costs, to kill her if needed because no-one will think twice about killing them, and that Petra is David’s responsibility.
What happens at the beginning of chapter twelve?
He packed some equipment and was making a list of clothes he would take when he fell asleep. Three hours later he was awakened by the click of his altchand Petra woke him up, while Rosalind said that they took Sally and Katherine
What is the name of the horse that David and Petra take to the mill?
Sheba
Where does Rosalind tell David to meet him at?
Right below the Mill
What does David find Rosalind with under the mill?
With her father’s two great horses.
What does Rosalind say regarding her mother and the thought shapes and escaping?
Rosalind says her mother has always half known for some time. When Rosalind told her, her mother cried but didn’t try or argue or dissuade. Rosalind says that she thinks her mother resolved that she’d have to help Rosalind one day when the time came.
What does David hear when he wakes up after Rosalind takes the night shift?
he hears Rosalind saying how she killed someone, and Micheal is consoling her, he tells her to cover the body with leaves in a hollow.
What does Sally say happened to Katherine?
Sally says that they’ve broken her, and they’ve tortured her and that Katherine confessed. Katherine confirmed David, Rosalind, Petra but no-one else. Sarah says to Waknuk that shape thoughts dont work far away.
What is Micheals plan to lead Waknuk away from his group?
Micheal’s plan is to volunteer for one of the posses right away and plant a report that they’re heading south-east, or Mark will start up another one to take them north-west.
What does Michael say about a proclamation?
there is a proclamation that means the three thought shape people that are recognized are deviants, non human, and not entitled to protections of human society. a big reward for capturing them alive is also there
Why is Waknuk afraid of the thought group?
They’re afraid of the thought group not just because the question of the true image, but the danger of how they can coordinate without words and only thoughts
Why did Petra not want to go to the Fringes?
It was because of the tales of Old Maggie and Hairy Jack and his family and other nursery rhyme tales
How does Petra relay the name of where the other thought-shape people are, and what is the name of it?
she relays what the other person’s area is and they debate whether the first letter is S or Z (though Petra insists it’s a Z), and the it goes EALAND
How does Petra describe Sealand/Zealand?
Petra says the women tells of a place where there are two parts of it with sea all around, from where she is she can see the sun shining on it for miles and miles and it’s all blue, and it isnt night where she is. With big houses different from Waknuk, funny carts without horses, and things in the air with whizzing things on top of them.
What is the reason David blacked out?
Fringes people, four or five jumped down and ambushed them and one landed on top of David
What do the Fringes people say regarding God and the Devil?
The fringes person says God rules the fringes, and that the old people brung upon tribulation, and they shouldn’t strive to be like the old people
How did Sealand become a thought-shape paradise?
The lady says her ancestors lived on two islands and the people who could think together became the dominant species, they helped people come to sealand
What is the description of the Fringes Camp?
They reach a camp with reddish cliffs with ladders made of branches, and tents put on the lower level.
What do we learn about the Fringes leader’s backstory?
David sees the man who was captive eight years ago, we learn this is Joseph’s older brother, who was thought to be normal until about four years old, when he ran away.
What does the leader say regarding Waknuk?
The man says Waknuk should be his, that he is the rightful heir to the Waknuk throne
What does the fringes leader do to Rosalind?
The man shatters Rosalind and David lunges at the man, and he was dragged off. The man says he wants Rosalind to have children?
What do they do to David at the end of chapter 14?
They toss david out of the camp and he doubled back under cover, but the fringes people expected that and knock him out
How does David meet Sophie again and what is her physical description?
David has just been beat up but is being dragged away by a woman he discovered to be Sophie. Sophie has dark hair hanging from the sides of her face, sunburnt skin, and dark eyes. She wore a sleeveless, crossless, ragged and tawny colored, stained dress.
Why does Sophie not like Rosalind?
Sophie thinks that if Rosalind has babies with Gordon, he won’t want Sophie anymore.
Why is Sophie in love with Gordon?
because he treated her nice while she had nothing
What are the characteristics of Sophie’s cave?
the cave was 15 ft deep and 9 ft wide, skin curtain door, water dripped from corner roof into wooden bucket and out, mattress made of skin and sticks, utensils, bowls, and bow and arrow scattered.
What does Rosalind think about Gordon having babies with her?
Rosalind remarks how she will kill herself if Gordon tried to impregnate her because he is so deviational
How does Sophie save Rosalind and Petra?
She goes with a knife, kills the man guarding the tent where they are at, and comes back with them.
What does Sophie make Rosalind do?
She makes her cut the cross off her dress
What is Sophie’s plan for their group to not get caught
hide in Sophie’s cave, as they wouldn’t search their own village
What does David accidentally say (in thought shapes) regarding his dad?
David asks because the Bible says not to kill your father and respect him, and he asks to forgive or kill (out loud accidentally), the Sealand woman says to focus on survival, and let him live.
What is the Waknuk plan, and the Fringes plan in the upcoming battle?
The Waknuk plan is to light fires to give the impression of being held up, and send troops again and again through passes to give the impression of more, while a small group goes to flank
The Fringes plan is to ambush them in the mountains, they are spotted before the battle.
How does the battle go?
Shots are heard, Fringe people are retreating back, Sealand says she is almost there, bow and horseman appear, gordon is spotted with sophie beside him, he aimed and killed Joseph Strom, then ran, then died, then sophie ran, and then died, David cutoff cave entrance, sealand arrives in fish shaped shiny white thing, sticky web cover and immobilize everyone, michael runs but is immobilized, all 3 in cave immobilized, sealand tells them to wait
What is the physical description of the Sealand Woman?
gold lashes, straight nose, perfect nostrils, wide mouth, round chin, short dark hair, light smooth skin, 30 y/o, confident, white perfect teeth
What does the Sealand woman tell them to do about the webs?
Stay still
What does Michael do?
Michael says he will stay back with Rachel and come to Sealand in the future
How does the book end?
They arrive to New Zealand, david is shocked that its just like in his dream, rosalind assures its real, they hear all the other peoples thought shapes, rosalind softens up, petra is excited
