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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Chapters 101-127

  1. What concept, which appeared in a newspaper column, does the narrator explain in chapter 101?

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  1. How is Mr Jeavons wrong about Christopher’s love of maths?

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  1. What is the narrator’s favorite book?

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  1. On pages 67–69, Christopher goes into the garden and contemplates the importance of description in the book he is writing. His teacher Siobhan told him “the idea of a book was to describe things using words so that people could read them and make a picture in their own head” [p. 67]. What is the effect of reading Christopher’s extended description, which begins, “I decided to do a description of the garden” and ends “Then I went inside and fed Toby”? How does this passage relate to a quote Christopher likes from The Hound of the Baskervilles: “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by chance ever observes” [p. 73]?

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  1. Rephrase the quotation from the ancient scroll in The Hound of the Baskervilles so that it would be easily understood by a modern reader.

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  1. What qualities does Christopher admire in Sherlock Holmes?

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  1. In Chapter 103, where does the narrator go to watch the clouds make pictures?

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  1. What is the setting of Chapter 109?

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  1. In Chapter 109, what does the narrator spend the afternoon doing?

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  1. What does the narrator's memory have that is similar to a soundtrack?

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  1. What memory of his mother does the narrator recall in Chapter 113?

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  1. In Chapter 27, how does the narrator respond to his father grabbing him after Father finds what the narrator put on the kitchen table?

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  1. In reflection, what does the narrator recall about his mother?

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