Passages and Quotations

Question 1

Soon the kayak skimmed water that spread across the fjord like soluble paints on paper, bleeding colors too mixed up to have their own names. They were alone in this vast maze of land and water and disconnected from everything that was familiar. Everything that was safe. (50)

Answer 1

Frozen Stiff by Sherry Shahan

Question 2

Lost in thought, she hardly noticed the miles falling behind her. She searched the sky for rescuers. Maybe she hadn’t really seen a helicopter the day before. People stumbling around in the desert saw all kinds of things that weren’t real. Maybe that happened to people in the wilderness. (106)

Answer 2

Frozen Stiff by Sherry Shahan

Question 3

She wondered why there weren’t any environmentalists in the fjord trying to rescue seals, porpoises, and other trapped animals. There should be National Geographic reporters and photographers, since Hubbard was named after the first president of the National Geographic Society. (93)

Answer 3

Frozen Stiff by Sherry Shahan

Question 4

The man had him. A setup. Baited with decoys: berries and roots. Tricked into trusting a poacher.

Kidnapped. (89)

Answer 4

Frozen Stiff by Sherry Shahan

Question 5

A woeful moan grew into a deafening roar, like the dull static of white noise. It hadn’t been thunder after all. A chunk of ice the size of Yakutat Tavern broke loose and plummeted into the water…A series of icy walls of waves four or five feet high rolled out from the broken chunk, now an enormous iceberg bobbing in the salt water. The giant waves aimed at the kayak. (47-48)

Answer 5

Frozen Stiff by Sherry Shahan

Question 6

She bolted upright in her sleeping bag. Another scream. More piercing than the others.
The whole world was screaming.
It took a few seconds before she understood that the screams, this time, were coming from her. (67)

Answer 6

Frozen Stiff by Sherry Shahan

Question 7

This wasn’t a dream. She screamed again in terror and pain. The burning was intense. Unbearable. She opened her eyes. White. Everything was white. Impossible. It was still night. (67)

Answer 7

Frozen Stiff by Sherry Shahan

Question 8

Meat! Dripping with greasy fat, attached to a bundle of ribs. Spareribs! Of venison, probably. She hesitated; then something took over and she grabbed the bundle of bones and dropped to a mossy boulder, hard and cold. She gnawed on the meat like an animal. Fat saturated her hands, dripped off her chin. (120)

Answer 8

Frozen Stiff by Sherry Shahan

Question 9

“What would you say if I told you that I have in fact called her already? No, don’t answer that. You won’t believe me. How about this? I’ll relay her message to you: ‘Do you see now that you didn’t need luck? I’m glad you wore matching socks.’ That is what she told me to tell you. Are you satisfied?” (31)

Answer 9

Number Two/Old Yellow Suit

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Question 10

She might not be smart enough to pass the test, but she was clever enough to get away with cheating on it. He felt a pang of jealousy. Now Rhonda would move on to experience those special opportunities, while [he] would mope his way back to the orphanage, defeated. (24)

Answer 10

Reynie Muldoon

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Question 11

“Where adult thoughts would lumber into the mind like an elephant, children’s creep in on cat feet and find a shadowy place to hide…” (101)

Answer 11

Mr. Benedict

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Question 12

“Rules and schools are tools for fools - I don’t give two mules for rules!” (74)

Answer 12

Constance Contraire

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Question 13

“Simply put, the messages ride piggyback on signals. Television, radio, cell phones - all these things make use of invisible signals, and the Sender has found a way to take advantage…The Sender has found a way to control the adhesive property of thoughts.” (100)

Answer 13

Mr. Benedict

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Question 14

“…although most people care about the truth, they can nonetheless - under certain circumstances, and given proper persuasion - be diverted from it. Some, however, possess an unusually powerful love of truth, and you children are among the few. Your minds have been resisting the hidden messages.” (102)

Answer 14

Mr. Benedict

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Question 15

The tall man rolled his eyes. “All right, the truth is that this will hurt. A lot. But if you hold still,” he said, shaking his arms to clear the watches from his suit cuffs, “I promise it won’t hurt long.” (112)

Answer 15

A Recruiter

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Question 16

“Remember, children. For every exit, there is an entrance.” (112)

Answer 16

Milligan

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Question 17

“Greed often helps people think of reasons they might not discover on their own.” (115)

Answer 17

Mr. Benedict

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Question 18

“Yes, well, the scouts won’t carry you to the Institute against your will, it’s true. But to the Institute you must certainly go. You are to be my secret agents.” (116)

Answer 18

Mr. Benedict

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Question 19

“For this is an important point I wished to discuss: You are a team now. Whether you always agree is inconsequential, but you must take care of one another, must rely upon one another in all things. I don’t exaggerate when I say that every one of you is essential to the success of the team, and indeed, to the fate of us all. You must remember that.” (119)

Answer 19

Mr. Benedict

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Question 20

No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else – from ambition to love to despair – derives in some way from this single powerful emotion. Must find the best way to make use of this. (267)

Answer 20

From the diary of Ledroptha Curtain

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Question 21

Katie’s face was burning up, but the little girl shivered so hard that her teeth clattered…Katie pointed to her throat. She looked like she was going to cry, but she sneezed instead. (16-17)

Answer 21

Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Question 22

Hannah’s problem was that she spent too much time craning her neck to see in the mirror that hung beside the eighth graders’ desks. Jessie had never understood what it was doing there…(15)

Answer 22

Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Question 23

“Tell him there’s a diphtheria epidemic in Clifton and the authorities are refusing to treat the patients with anything but 1840s medicine…Tell him - tell him children are going to die if they don’t get help.”

Answer 23

Ma

Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Question 24

She was only a few minutes into her journey, and had already seen a miracle: flameless light. What more might she see? How could Pa and Ma have left such an amazing world? (41)

Answer 24

Jessie Keyser

Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Question 25

“…I’m going to look into it. Especially now they’re getting so picky here…You’d think we were guarding a prison.”
“Wouldn’t you want out, if you was those people? ‘Sides, they never said we was supposed to look for escapees.”
“What else we looking for? Ever heard of so many guards at a place like this?” (46)

Answer 25

The guards at Clifton Village

Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Question 26

Even the annual revivals – when Reverend Holloway rode in and preached for three hours a night, so vividly that [she] always dreamed afterward of hellfire and brimstone – even those had an audience. Was there anything the tourists weren’t allowed to see? (63)

Answer 26

Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Question 27

Stumbling over roots and branches, [she] realized she could go a lot faster on the smooth road. No, be cautious, she told herself. That wasn’t like her. Hannah was the cautious one in the family. But Hannah wouldn’t have been brave enough to leave Clifton. [She] would just have to pretend she had Hannah’s caution and her own bravery. (72)

Answer 27

Jessie Keyser

Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Question 28

The man didn’t sound like he worked for Miles Clifton. He seemed a little crazy, but not dangerous. He’d called himself an environmentalist, which was a word Ma had used. Maybe it was all right to go with him.

Answer 28

Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix