SOUNDER BY Author William Howard Armstrong
September 14, 1914-April 11, 1999
Author:
William Howard Armstrong
Born:
September 14, 1914
Died: April
11, 1999
Biography of
William Howard Armstrong
1. Answer these questions about the author.
a.
What is the author’s date of birth?
September 14, 1914
b.
How old was Armstrong when he wrote this story?
Age 55 [
c.
What inspired him to write it?
The Old testatment, Homer[Illiad] and History
2. Describe the
following settings:
a. The big house
b. The meetin’ house
c.
The unpainted cabin.
3. Sounder is this
breed of dog:
a. German
shepard
b. pit
bull
c.
mixed Georgia redbone hound and bulldog.
4. The mother was
able to sell her walnuts for
a. ten
cents a pound.
b.
fifteen cents a pound.
c. twenty
five cents a pound.
5. The mother
entertained the boy at night by
a. reading.
b. playing
games.
c.
telling stories.
6. There are
____________ children in the family.
a. three
b. two
c.
four
7. The sheriff
arrested the father because the father
a. broke
into someone’s house.
b. broke
into a store.
c.
broke into a smoke house.
8. Watering a growing
plant when the soil is hot
a. helps
it to grow faster.
b. makes
it greener.
c.
shocks the roots.
9. How many years had
passed when the boy sat and read the story of Joseph to his younger brother and
sisters?
a. 6
years
b.
2 years
c. 4
years
10. There is a period
during the summer called “dog days”; it is a time when the heat and drought
parch the earth. How did this period get
its name?
a. During
this time, dogs go mad.
b.
The Dog Star rises and sets with the sun during this
season of the year.
c. Heat
and drought only come in summer.
11. The father is
hurt on the chain gang while
a. working
in a cotton field.
b.
working in a quarry.
c. working
in a jail.
12. Sounder and the
father die
a. a
year apart.
b. two
years apart.
c.
within the same year.
13. Write one paragraph explaining what you believe the life
lessons of this story are.
That the mother believe that the Lord choose people for
certain things in life.
SOURCE:
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This is a great book. Despite what the father did. It was the mother's powerful love of forgiveness and the powerful that strengthen how she kept the family together through racism and financial hard times.
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