Chapter 3

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1. Define "great satisfaction." 

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2. Explain what Jamie was doing "as usual." 

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3. Why didn't it matter to our narrator that Jamie wasn't working.

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4. Explain what Heather warned Jamie about while they were collecting beetles. 

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5. Explain what Jamie meant by "Heather-Bees." ( 24)

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6. Explain why the narrator said, "Sometimes Jamie made me sick." (25)

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7. As the narrator walked home, avoiding the bees, he says "I looked back and Jamie was still putting on his act, writhing on the ground." Explain what the narrator is thinking as Jamie writhes on the ground. HIs quote on page 27 may help. 

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8. Explain why the narrator wouldn't go out front with his banana popsicle.

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9. Compare and contrast Mrs. Mullins and her garden with Mrs. Houser and her yard. 

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10.Explain why the narrator knew he need to go back to Mrs. Houser's yard and finish the job he had agreed to do.  

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11. Explain why the narrator and Heather were surprised to see Mrs. Houser come out of Jamie's house. 

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12.Explain what is meant by "The whole neighborhood flowed down the hill like water behind a moving dam. "  

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13. Define "bustled." 

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14.Explain why the narrator REALLY went back to picking beetles off the leaves after Jamie was taken away in the ambulance. 

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