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1. What year is the setting for "A Painted House"?
2. The main character of the book is seven years old. What is his name?
3. Everyone in the family, except the little boy, was expected to pick the cotton.
4. What is the last name of the hill family that Pappy hires to pick cotton?
5. Which state is "A Painted House" set in?
6. What is the name of Pappy and Gran's son who is fighting in the Korean War?
7. If the cotton was a good crop it could produce a bale an acre. What was the going rate for a bale of cotton?
8. The hill people that worked for Pappy had a son named Hank. Hank was a very violent person who was always looking for a fight. What is the name of the boy he beat to death?
9. What was the name of the leader of the ten Mexicans Pappy hired to pick cotton?
10. Hank killed Cowboy and threw his body into the river.
11. Who was a witness to the murder and the throwing of the body into the river?
12. The Baptist and Methodist church each year had a baseball game after a giant picnic. The Methodists won the game against the Baptists. What was the final score?
13. What professional baseball team did the boy's family always listen to on the radio?
14. The hill family's daughter Tally ran off with the Mexican named Miguel.
15. A natural disaster happened that ruined the crop which was the catalyst for the boy and his parents to leave the farm and move to Detroit, Michigan. What was the natural disaster?
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