Three Strike from Kelsey Flashcards
Three Strike: Who is the author of Three Strike Summer?
Skyler Schrempp
Three Strike: What is the full name of the main character of Three Strike Summer?
Gloria Mae Willard
Three Strike: What is the name of Gloria’s older sister?
Jessamyn (Jess)
Three Strike: What is Jess doing to Gloria while their Pa talks to the bank man?
Giving her a bath
Three Strike: When Pa is talking to the bank man, what does he call him that makes Gloria mad?
Sir
Three Strike: What was Gloria’s baby brother’s name?
Si (Silas)
Three Strike: Who held Gloria back from yelling at the bank man at their farmhouse?
Ma
Three Strike: What did Gloria throw a rock at from the creek bed by their house?
The bank man’s windshield
Three Strike: What did the bank man offer to Pa that made Gloria upset when he took it?
A cigarette
Three Strike: What town did the Willard family live in in Oklahoma?
Balko
Three Strike: How many birds did Gloria knock out of the sky with rocks she’d thrown?
5
Three Strike: Who did the bank man think threw the rock at his car?
A son he didn’t know about
Three Strike: What are Gloria’s parents’ names?
Silas & Evelyne
Three Strike: Who said they wished Gloria had smashed the bank man’s car to pieces?
Jess
Three Strike: When the Willards stop driving for the night, what sound is the air full of?
Men tinkering with their trucks
Three Strike: Who helped pay for a headstone for Baby Si?
The Homewoods
Three Strike: After Pa gives Gloria a talking-to in Texas, what does he ask her before sending her back to their camp?
How far she was from the car when she threw the rock
Three Strike: When Ma sends Gloria to find Pa at their stop in Texas, what is he doing?
Watching a baseball game
Three Strike: Who taught Pa how to play baseball?
His dad (Gloria’s granddad)
Three Strike: When Pa had explained baseball to Gloria, what did he use to represent the bases? The players?
Bottle caps; dried beans
Three Strike: What did Pa do when the batter in Texas finally got a hit?
Ear-piercing whistle
Three Strike: After watching the men play baseball in Texas, Gloria saw a “shadow moon” on the ground. What was it?
Their baseball
Three Strike: What did Jess use as a bat to practice baseball with Gloria?
A dead branch
Three Strike: What does Gloria always call the boy that Jess makes “moony eyes” at after church?
Joe Franklin’s sweet son
Three Strike: What is Joe Franklin’s son’s name?
Benjamin Lawrence Franklin
Three Strike: Where does Joe Franklin’s son sit in church?
Right behind the Willards
Three Strike: When did Benjamin start sitting behind the Willards?
After Miss Claire said Jess was a whiz with words
Three Strike: What did Gloria say Benjamin looked like when he was looking at Jess?
Peaceful
Three Strike: What does Gloria call the man in white trousers and a hat at the entrance to the orchard?
St. Peter
Three Strike: What’s Pa’s response when asked how many people he has for working at the orchard?
Two grown & able-bodied, two young and able-bodied
Three Strike: How much is rent at the orchard per week for the pickers?
6
Three Strike: How much do the pickers have to pay for electricity whether they use it or not?
2
Three Strike: What is one of St. Peter’s rules for the pickers that Gloria doesn’t understand?
No organizing
Three Strike: What two things does St. Peter ask Jess & Gloria if they have?
Lice or worms
Three Strike: Why is Gloria fidgeting in the back of the truck when St. Peter is talking to them?
She has to pee
Three Strike: What house number are the Willards assigned at the peach orchard?
Number 72
Three Strike: What does the man at the gate call the girls, when he says they’re as dumb as they are dirty?
Okie kids
Three Strike: What is the name of the kid who lived in number 72 before Gloria?
Jimmy
Three Strike: Who’s the first kid to talk to Gloria at the peach orchard, who has family in Oklahoma?
Quentin
Three Strike: What is Terrance holding when Gloria first meets him?
A baseball
Three Strike: The other kids tell Gloria the bosses have eyes and ears all over the place, looking for what?
Radical activity
Three Strike: Who did Gloria say she played ball with back in Oklahoma?
The all-star Balko boys
Three Strike: What position does Terrance say they could let Gloria try when they first meet?
Outfielder
Three Strike: When Terrance says they don’t need a pitcher, what does Gloria claim she could do to Terrance?
Knock the cap right off his head
Three Strike: What does Terrance call Gloria when he’s trying to convince the boys they wouldn’t want her on the team?
A skirt
Three Strike: What did Ma make for breakfast their first morning at the peach orchard?
Mini pan fritters
Three Strike: What was the name of the peach orchard where the Willards worked?
Santa Ana Holdsten Peach Orchard
Three Strike: Why did Ma only buy flour at the orchard store?
Prices are too expensive
Three Strike: Where does Ma say she’ll go to work at the orchard?
The cannery
Three Strike: How many acres did the Willards once own in Oklahoma?
75
Three Strike: Who does the man in the white hat say only hire at their orchard?
Native-born Americans
Three Strike: What’s the name of the apricot grove next to the peach orchard?
Michelson’s
Three Strike: What color is associated with people who go on strike or try to organize for better wages?
Red
Three Strike: Who tells Gloria the ladders are only fit for firewood?
Grady
Three Strike: Who does Gloria meet with white-blond hair who tells her about the baseball team?
Davey
Three Strike: What does Gloria originally call Davey when he introduces himself?
Davey-from-the-Bible
Three Strike: Who does Davey say is in charge of the peach orchard baseball team?
Terrance Bowman
Three Strike: What radio program does the warden listen to, that the boys use to sneak out for baseball?
Dick Tracy
Three Strike: Where did Davey say vagrants were taken if they didn’t have a nickel to pay their way out?
The clink
Three Strike: What does Davey say is the name of the hitter that Terrance can’t strike out from the apricot team?
Arlon Mackie
Three Strike: What does Davey say he has a collection of, and how many are in his collection?
Bottle caps; 54 (from 9 states)
Three Strike: The first time Gloria tries to sneak out to join the baseball group, where are they all waiting for her?
In a tree
Three Strike: Who proposes a wager between Terrance and Gloria to see if she can join the team?
Quentin
Three Strike: What does Terrance say Gloria has to do to get on the team?
Strike out their best batter (no balls, no fouls)
Three Strike: What is Gloria’s condition for the wager for her to join the team?
She won’t play right field
Three Strike: Who says he’s already got the position of right-fielder covered?
Quentin
Three Strike: Who is the best batter for the peach orchard team?
Clyde
Three Strike: What did the boys use as home plate?
The side of an old fruit crate
Three Strike: What happens before Gloria gets to attempt her third strike for Clyde?
Terrance interrupts
Three Strike: What does Quentin tell Terrance that makes all the boys scramble into the bushes?
Copper coming
Three Strike: When the policemen come to the orchard, who do they hit on the head and take away in their truck?
Grady
Three Strike: What did Gloria say the sound of Grady’s head getting hit sounded like?
Throwing a pumpkin against a stone
Three Strike: Who had previously gotten in trouble for being a “Red” before Grady?
Jimmy’s dad
Three Strike: What do the orchard owners put into effect after Grady is taken away?
A curfew (no one leaves after 8:00)
Three Strike: What was wrong with the peach that Gloria tries to eat before a clipboard man says she’s stealing product?
Had a wormhole in it
Three Strike: What do the owners do with bad fruit that they can’t sell?
Burn it out back
Three Strike: Who originally came up with the plan to leave when the guard was listening to Dick Tracy?
Quentin
Three Strike: What sentence does Gloria repeatedly say about California?
California, you are a bust
Three Strike: What did one of the ladies do with her baby while she picked peaches?
Laid him on a blanket nearby, so he wouldn’t be exposed to the spray
Three Strike: What do the clipboard men call it when they see someone dropping or throwing peaches or treating them roughly?
Bruising product
Three Strike: Who does Gloria tell first about finding a spot to get out of the orchard?
Terrance
Three Strike: What does Quentin call Gloria’s new way out of the orchard?
An alternate point of egress
Three Strike: What time does Quentin say they’ll meet in Grady’s cabin?
10:00, when the shift changes
Three Strike: What does Quentin tell Gloria to do when she gets to Grady’s cabin?
Tap “shave and a haircut” on the door
Three Strike: What does Quentin say will let Gloria know it’s 10:00 even though she doesn’t have a watch?
The guard’s car sounds like a tommy gun
Three Strike: Who does Quentin say he has met who is also from Balko?
Ben Franklin
Three Strike: What does Quentin draw in chalk on the floor of Grady’s cabin?
A map of the orchard
Three Strike: Who does Terrance end up swearing on to agree to Gloria being the pitcher?
His mom
Three Strike: What did Gloria trip on when she was about to leave Grady’s cabin?
A loose floorboard
Three Strike: What does Gloria find under the loose floorboard in Grady’s cabin?
Pamphlets about striking
Three Strike: What was the name written in pencil on the back of the strike pamphlets in Grady’s cabin?
Michelson’s
Three Strike: Who was waiting up for Gloria when she returned from Grady’s cabin?
Jess
Three Strike: Where does Jess stash the contraband pamphlets that Gloria brought back?
In her coffee can with pictures of starlets
Three Strike: Who was the first one to start digging under the fence to get out of the orchard?
Jess
Three Strike: What would Jess tell the men with clipboards that would make them part for her “like she was Moses standing at the Red Sea”?
Lady troubles
Three Strike: Who offers to be a lookout or run reconnaissance for Gloria and the team to sneak out under the fence?
Davey
Three Strike: When Gloria puts a peach in her pocket to protect it, what does one of the clipboard men do with it?
Claims she was trying to steal it, then takes a bite and throws it away
Three Strike: How does Gloria convince Davey to finish filling her wheelbarrow for her?
Tells him she’ll let him know how to get to the game the next day
Three Strike: What happened when Davey climbed Gloria’s ladder to pick peaches for her?
Ladder snapped, and he fell to the ground
Three Strike: Who did Pa think had fallen when the ladder broke?
Gloria
Three Strike: After Davey fell, what did Jess tell Gloria to confirm that he was still alive?
“I saw him breathing.”
Three Strike: Who came to the cabin to talk to Pa after Davey fell from the broken ladder?
Sam Blight
Three Strike: Who from the apricot team is the first one to talk to Gloria before the game?
Arlon Mackie
Three Strike: Who was Gloria’s only fan at her first baseball game?
Jess
Three Strike: What did they use for home plate in the first game against the apricot boys?
A beat-up washboard
Three Strike: Who was “consorting with the enemy” and making fun of Gloria behind her back in her first game?
Terrance
Three Strike: How many strikes did Gloria get on Arlon in her first baseball game?
None
Three Strike: Who was the only one who would walk near Gloria on the way back after their first game?
Quentin
Three Strike: What group was the man from who would talk to the pickers first thing in the morning?
California Growers Association
Three Strike: After Davey’s fall, Gloria’s Ma tells her that if someone tells her to climb a ladder, she should do what?
Come straight to her
Three Strike: What color is the silk on the hat of the man from the California Growers Association?
Plum-colored
Three Strike: Who is the one to speak up to the man in the white hat about their wages and working conditions?
Pa
Three Strike: Who tells Gloria that she’s bad luck and what her Pa’s stirring up has bad luck written all over it?
Terrance
Three Strike: What does Gloria say to Terrance that makes him start a fight with her?
“At least my ma thinks I’m worth sticking around for!”
Three Strike: Where did Gloria punch Terrance? (What body part?)
His jaw
Three Strike: How did the adults break up Gloria and Terrance’s fight?
By dousing them with water and pulling them apart
Three Strike: After the fight, when Gloria asks her Ma what’s she thinking, what does she say?
“I hope you never know what it’s like to see your child get hurt”
Three Strike: When Gloria is admitting everything to her Ma, she says she’s tired of people thinking what?
That they don’t want her around
Three Strike: When Gloria tells her Ma she doesn’t want to take things lying down, what does her Ma say makes people do funny things?
Pride
Three Strike: What did Ma say she’d rather her daughter have than pride?
Honor (doing the right thing even when it’s hard)
Three Strike: Who does Ma say knocked some sense into Pa about about not just letting the bosses do whatever they want?
Ma
Three Strike: Why does Ma question Sam Blight’s willingness to strike?
He has a wife and tiny baby
Three Strike: Why didn’t Ma fight for the Willards to stay in Oklahoma?
She didn’t want to stay in the house her baby died in
Three Strike: What did the inside of Terrance’s shanty look like?
A mess of laundry, dishes, old tin cans with flies
Three Strike: What was Gloria originally expecting when she apologized to Terrance?
That he would apologize back
Three Strike: Gloria was thinking about telling Terrance she was as good at doing girl things as what?
As Quentin was at playing baseball
Three Strike: What question did Gloria ask Terrance after she apologized, and he told her about his tough life?
“What’s your ma’s name?”
Three Strike: What is Terrance’s ma’s name?
Joanna
Three Strike: After their apologies, what’s the first thing Gloria and Terrance agree on?
They both want to wipe the smirk off Arlon’s face
Three Strike: Who is waiting outside Terrance’s cabin after Gloria and Terrance apologize to each other?
The whole team (most of the kids from camp)
Three Strike: What word does Quentin use for the person they will send to round up the apricot team for a final game?
Emissary
Three Strike: Who do Gloria and Terrance say they’re going to place the last game for?
Davey
Three Strike: What does Pa tell the family to do the night before they’re going to strike?
Pack up their stuff
Three Strike: Gloria thinks her parents would like it if she was more like who?
Jess
Three Strike: What does Gloria’s Pa make her promise after she tells him it was her fault Davey got hurt?
That she’ll never hold herself responsible for something when adults do something wrong or stupid
Three Strike: The night before the planned strike, what does Pa say could stop it?
If word got out ahead of time and the police were ready
Three Strike: What changed Pa’s mind about giving her a talking-to about slacking off from work and punching boys?
He couldn’t bear her to think he was ashamed she was his daughter
Three Strike: What’s the last piece of business Gloria says she and Jess need to do the night before the strike?
Pick up the rest of the pamphlets to give to the apricot boys
Three Strike: When Gloria’s pockets are all stuffed with pamphlets, she says she looks as thick as what?
A circus strong man
Three Strike: Arlon tells Gloria that if the peach orchard goes (on strike), what would happen next?
The apricot grove would follow
Three Strike: In the final game, who hits the ball to get Terrance and Gloria around to home?
Clyde
Three Strike: In the last game, after Clyde gets two strikes, what does he do so quickly only Gloria saw it?
He winks
Three Strike: What is the score right before the bottom of the last inning in the final game?
3-2 (peach ahead)
Three Strike: Who played catcher in the last inning of the last game while Gloria’s pitched?
Quentin
Three Strike: How many batters did the apricot team get on base before Arlon’s time at bat in the final game?
2
Three Strike: What did Jess do during the final game right before Gloria pitched to Arlon Mackie?
Tossed Gloria her ball from Texas
Three Strike: What were the apricot boys thinking when Gloria switched out baseballs?
That they were cheating
Three Strike: What was Gloria thinking about during her first pitch to Arlon in the final game?
The farmhouse
Three Strike: What was Gloria thinking about during her second pitch to Arlon in the final game?
The night Little Si was born
Three Strike: What did Gloria say to herself twice before her final pitch to Arlon in the final game?
“Breathe, Glo”
Three Strike: When Terrance asks Gloria if she’s got it after Arlon’s hit, what is her response?
“My pride? No siree.”
Three Strike: Where did Gloria catch Arlon’s hit?
Between her forearm and belly
Three Strike: What did Jess say to Gloria after the final baseball game?
I’m awful proud to be your sister
Three Strike: What caused the team to stop on their way back to the orchard after their final baseball game?
A long line of police trucks
Three Strike: Who did Gloria see chatting to the man from the California Growers Association when the police are there the day they were going to strike?
Sam Blight
Three Strike: What did Sam Blight say to Gloria after she saw him talking to the man from the CA Growers Assocation?
I’m sorry, kid. I gotta look after my own
Three Strike: What was lying in the dirt outside their shanty when Gloria and Jess got back from the ball game?
All their stuff
Three Strike: What was Gloria doing as she ran toward her Pa and the policemen who were herding him?
Screaming “No”
Three Strike: How much time do the police give them to clear out after Gloria makes her demands?
10 minutes
Three Strike: Who helped the Willards pick up all their stuff and load it into their truck after the police told them to get out?
The baseball boys
Three Strike: What does Gloria tell Clyde to do with her baseball?
Give it to Davey when he wakes up
Three Strike: What does Terrance toss to Gloria right before she has to leave with her family?
A golden-pink peach
Three Strike: Where do the Willards end up at the end of the book?
Stockton Pear Orchard
Three Strike: The guy at the pear orchard says that who went radical?
The workers at Michelson’s apricot grove
Three Strike: What cabin number are the Willards assigned at the pear orchard?
Number 29
Three Strike: Where does Jess send all her letters for Ben?
To his granddad’s place in Balko
Three Strike: What does Gloria ask the girl with the mangy hair at the pear orchard?
Wanna play ball?
