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Why was Mrs. Slater mad at Mrs. Boyer after she first met her?
She was jealous of Mrs. Boyer's pretty things.
Mrs. Boyer wouldn't loan her a cup of sugar.
Mrs. Boyer looked down on the Slaters for being poor.
She thought Mrs. Boyer was a gossip.
Why wasn't there any school for the children?
The people hadn't built a school yet
The people were too poor to hire a teacher
The Slater boys beat up the teacher.
There weren't enough children to go to school.
Why did the Slaters' hogs keep getting in the strawberry fields?
The hogs ran wild because the Slaters didn't feed them.
Mr. Slater wanted to make trouble for the Boyers
Shoestring wanted to show Birdie she couldn't grow strawberries.
The strawberry field was near the common watering hole.
What happened to the money Mr. Slater got from selling his cow?
It was used to pay his debts.
He bought himself a fancy new gun.
It was stolen.
He gambled most of it and then got drunk.
People born in Florida were called Crackers because
their main food was cracked corn
the sun made them look leathery and cracked
of the cowmen who cracked their whips herding cattle
of the way they talked
What happened to all the strawberries
Grasshoppers stripped every plant
The Slaters came at night and trampled them
It got cold and they froze and were ruined.
A flock of robins ate them.
Mr. Boyer whipped Shoestring because he
threw rotten eggs at the Boyers' house.
threw a snake at Birdie.
was cutting Mr. Boyer's fence.
wouldn't take care of his father's cow.
Why did Birdie tell Shoestring he'd never learn to read and write
He was too lazy.
She decided he was too dumb
The school burned in a fire started by the Slaters.
She wanted to hurt his feelings after what he'd done.
Why did Shoestring come to the Boyers in the middle of the night?
He wanted to warn Mr. Boyer that his pas was looking for him.
His ma and sisters were sick.
His pa was drunk and he wanted to get away from him.
he was planning on causing trouble.
What was the surprise for Birdie after the first day of school?
an organ
a radio
a pony
a new mule
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