Chapter Eight:

 

Chapter Eight is a flashback.

 

Questions

 

  1. Once the wood is delivered who has the job of cutting it?
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  3. When Grant begins to speak of his teacher, Matthew Antoine, what does he say he wanted from the teacher that other students didn’t?
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  5. What does Antoine say Grant should do?
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  7. Which year was Grant’s first year as a teacher?

 

Quotes

 

  1. "And there were others who did not go anywhere but simply died slower." - page 62
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  3. "You’ll see that it takes more than five and a half months to wipe away – peel – scrape away the blanket of ignorance that has been plastered and replastered over those brains in the past three hundred years." – page 64