Chapter 1
1. Why did President Al Dallam invite Dr. Cooper and his crew to Nepur?
2. How did the deaths of those who had gone on expeditions into the Dragon’s Throat deter the president from contacting Dr Cooper?
3. How many people were in Dr. Cooper’s expedition and what didn't the president like about them?
4. What was the Dragon’s Throat?
5. What types of legends and folklore surrounded the Dragon’s Throat?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapter 2
1. How did Dr. Cooper react when he learned a cobra had trapped Lila and Jay?
2. How did Lila, Jay, and Dr. Cooper feel as they walked back toward the Dragon's Throat?
3. Why didn’t Gozan want to go into the Dragon’s Throat?
4. How did Gozan react when he saw the skeleton of a man from the Swiss expedition?
5. What did the Cooper party find once they reached the bottom of the Dragon's Throat?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapter 3
1. What two things caused the large boulder from the ceiling to miss Dr. Cooper?
2. What did the team do after the boulder narrowly missed Dr. Cooper?
3. What did the Cooper expedition do once they found the Door in the Dragon's Throat?
4. To whom did Dr. Cooper think the treasure originally belonged?
5. Why did Dr. Cooper decide to use explosives on the Door?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapter 4
1. What was the Shaman of the Desert?
2. What did Jay find above the inscription on the Door?
3. What did the note from the Shaman of the Desert say?
4. Why did the Cooper family go to the meeting, even when they were convinced it was a trap?
5. What happened to Lila and Jay while they were looking for the Shaman of the Desert with their dad in the Street of the Scorpion?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapter 5
1. What two things motivated Gozan to help Dr. Cooper find his children?
2. How did Lila and Jay's kidnapper behave in an unexpected way?
3. What did the Sacred Chest hold, and why was it important?
4. How did Lila's and Jay's God help the old man escape his curse?
5. Who opened the Sacred Chest, and what happened to the key to the Door of Shandago?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapter 6
1. Why did the Shaman of the Desert stop Jay from chasing the thief?
2. After the children were reunited with their dad, where did the Cooper family and the Shaman go?
3. Who held Dr. Cooper, the Shaman, Lila, and Jay captive in the president’s office?
4. Who recognized Gozan as the thief who had stolen the key from the table?
5. What did Dr. Cooper say was behind the Door?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapter 7
1. Why did Gozan let the Coopers and the Shaman leave the president’s office?
2. What did Dr. Cooper, Jay, Lila, and the Shaman find when they arrived at the Dragon’s Throat?
3. Who went into the Dragon’s Throat, and what did they have to do?
4. When the key fell on a ledge in the pit, how did the Coopers retrieve it?
5. Even though Jay did everything he could, why wasn’t he able to close the Door of Shandago?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapter 1
1. What did the captain say about the medallion, and what was strange about how the man died?
2. What did the note in the dead man’s pocket reveal to the International Missionary Alliance?
3. Why did the Alliance hire the Coopers to investigate Adam MacKenzie when they were archaeologists?
4. What was unusual about the water and vegetation along the shoreline of the island?
5. What two greetings did the Cooper family receive on the island and who gave them these "welcomes"?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 2 and 3
1. What was unusual about the village and villagers?
2. How long did it take the Coopers to find Adam MacKenzie, and how was Tommy’s death explained?
3. What did Dulaney tell the Coopers before he left?
4. What did MacKenzie say was wrong with Dulaney?
5. What happened to Lila when the Coopers heard wailing and decided to investigate?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapter 4
1. What did Mr. Dulaney and Tommy have in common?
2. What did MacKenzie's words to the villagers about the stolen building supplies reveal about him?
3. Where did Candle want the Coopers to go?
4. Why did the Coopers follow Candle, and what did they find?
5. What was at the end of the forbidden trail?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 5 and 6
1. What did MacKenzie and the guards do when they found the Coopers near the altars and sacrificial pit?
2. While in the confinement hut, how did the Coopers prepare for Moro-Kunda?
3. What caused Dr. Cooper to scream, and what happened because he screamed?
4. What were the villagers doing in the jungle, and why did they want to please MacKenzie?
5. What did Dr. Cooper's find in the cottage prove?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 7 and 8
1. Why did MacKenzie let the Coopers leave?
2. How did MacKenzie attack the Coopers?
3. What happened to Jay and Dr. Cooper once they fell, and who helped them?
4. When Lila was in the locked hut, again, how did she feel? What did Kelno say to her?
5. How did Jay's discovery help Dr. Cooper and Adam decide what they would do next?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 9 and 10
1. What happened to the island as Dr. Cooper, Jay, and Adam tried to find Lila?
2. What did they find in one of the caverns?
3. What reason did Kelno give for the island's shaking, and how did he say it would stop?
4. What did Dr. Cooper, Jay, and Adam have to do to get across a jagged rift in the caverns, and what happened as Dr. Cooper did this?
5. How was Lila's prayer in the pit different, and how did God answer her?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapter 11
1. Who helped Lila, and how did she escape the pit?
2. Why did her family and Adam think Lila was dead?
3. How did Candle give Lila hope that her dad and brother might still be alive?
4. What did Candle show Lila in one of the huts?
5. What did Dr. Cooper do in the village after he believed Lila was dead?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapter 12
1. Why did Dr. Cooper say he would not kill Kelno?
2. What was Adam's plan to save the villagers?
3. What did Kelno want the villagers to do?
4. Where did Lila and Candle go after they filled the canoe with supplies?
5. What did the group escaping the island find when they entered Adam’s Ark?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 13 and 14
1. What idea did God give Lila and Candle to save Adam, while they fought the waves in the canoe?
2. What happened after Dr. Cooper and his group surrendered to Kelno’s guards?
3. How did Lila place the explosives, and what happened to her as a result?
4. What did the explosives do, and how did they affect Adam’s Ark?
5. What happened after the Ark left the cavern?
6. Summarize this section.

1. What dreadful mistake did the Rhinoceros make? How did the Rhinoceros do it? 
2. How did the Rhinoceros look, and why did he have buttons on his belly?
3. What did the Parsee do to get even with the Rhinoceros? How did this affect the Rhinoceros?
4. What did the Rhinoceros and the Parsee do wrong?
5. Write a summary paragraph over "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin."

Kate and the Spies: The American Revolution
by JoAnn A. Grote

Chapters 1 and 2
1. Why and where were Kate and Colin being pushed by the crowd?
2. Why weren’t the ships that held the tea unloaded?
3. What did Harrison ask Colin and Kate to do, and why did both decline?
4. How did Kate feel about the Loyalist/Patriot issue?
5. What was the difference between Colin and Kate’s punishment for staying out so late?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 3 and 4
1. What happened to Boston because its people dumped tea into the harbor?
2. How did families, such as Colin's and Kate’s, disagree about what was happening in Boston?
3. To whom was Colin apprenticed, and what did Colin hope to do?
4. What happened to Liberty; how did Sarah save her?
5. What was Harrison's good news for Boston?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 5 and 6
1. What did the Gifts Committee ask people to do if they took the food sent by the other colonies?
2. What did Suffolk County do to upset the British?
3. Why did Loyalist families move to Boston?
4. What did Lieutenant Andrews do for Larry Crews?
5. What did Colin and Kate agree to do for the Patriots?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 7 and 8
1. What did women use to make their clothing?
2. What did Dr. Milton and Uncle Jack disagree about?
3. What was on Uncle Jack’s door? What did it mean?
4. What did Harry join, and why did he join it?
5. How was the secret message supposed to reach the tavern in Lexington, and how would it be decoded?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 9, 10, and 11
1. Why did British soldiers search the wagons of people leaving Boston?
2. What happened to the farmer who helped Liberty?
3. Why were British officers staying in Boston homes? What was it called when they stayed with Boston citizens?
4. What did Harry ask Kate and Colin to do for the Patriot cause?
5. How did Kate show courage when her dog was playing with George Lambert’s hat?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 12 and 13
1. What did Kate do to make sure the officers would leave earlier than usual?
2. What was the second thing Liberty did that could have given away Mr. Lambert's hiding place?
3. How did Colin and Kate disguise Mr. Lambert, and how was he supposed to escape?
4. Why didn’t Sarah want to be Kate’s friend anymore?
5. What did Kate and Colin tell Harry, and how could the information help their cause?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 14 and 15
1. How was the raid on Fort Harrison and Mary successful?
2. Why weren't the Patriot leaders arrested at the Old South Church? What did all the leaders but Dr. Warren do after that meeting?
3. What did Patrick Henry say, and how did his words inspire others?
4. What did British soldiers do with a straw man at Uncle Jack’s shop, and what did it mean?
5. Why did Dr. Milton want to meet with Uncle Jack?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 16 and 17
1. What did Lieutenant Andrews tell Colin and Kate, and why did he tell them what he told them?
2. When Kate and Colin told Paul Revere about the redcoats, what did he tell them?
3. Where were Dr. Milton, Kate, and Colin going in Dr. Milton’s carriage?
4. What sacrifice did Larry make when Colin told him what the British were doing?
5. At the start of the war, what did Kate and Colin decide to do and why?
6. Summarize this section.

Mandy the Outsider: Prelude to World War 2
by Norma Jean Lutz

Chapters 1 and 2
1. Why did the McMichael family move?
2. Where did Mandy feel she belonged in the family?
3. Compare Mandy’s old school with her new school.
4. How did Susan feel about her new school?
5. What are three things that Mandy did not like?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 3 and 4
1. What did John tell Mandy, and why did he think it would make her excited about school?
2. How do Caroline's actions make Mandy feel?
3. What happened in the library on Mandy’s first day?
4. Why were some people upset with the Mikimotos?
5. What did Mandy’s pastor ask her to think about?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 5 and 6
1. What did the Golden Ring do to Helga while she was taking a shower after P.E. class?
2. How did Miss LaFayette treat Mandy?
3. What did the Golden Ring do to Mandy at recess?
4. How did Mandy tell Miss LaFayette about the book?
5. How did Mandy feel about Mark and Lora’s news?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 7 and 8
1. Why were Mandy’s mom and dad upset with Mandy?
2. What did Mandy catch John and his friends doing? How did John feel about his actions?
3. What was the same and what was different when Mandy and John went to see the Mikimotos?
4. How was Mandy’s family changing?
5. What happened when Mandy finally stood up for Helga?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 9 and 10
1. What did Mr. Mikimoto ask Mr. McMichael to do?
2. What did Miss LaFayette ask Mandy to do? Why did Mandy hesitate?
3. How did Lora act before and after Mark came home?
4. How did Caroline help Mandy feel more grown up?
5. Why didn't Mandy want to enter the Quiz Contest?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 11 and 12
1. What did Mandy do to fit in? How did it work?
2. How did Peter surprise Mandy and John?
3. What upset Mandy at the baseball game?
4. Who did Mandy think about during the sermon? What was the sermon about?
5. What happened to John on the way home from school?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 13 and 14
1. What happened to John's "friends" when Mandy met the Mikimotos?
2. How did John feel when Mandy told him what happened downtown?
3. What did John do at school the week after he was attacked?
4. How nervous was Mandy, and how did she do in the Quiz Contest?
5. After the contest, what did Jane tell Mandy?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 15 and 16
1. How did things change at school for Mandy after she won the contest?
2. Which countries did the Nazis defeat?
3. Why did Mandy decide to be kind to Helga?
4. What happened when Susan and Mandy were at the park?
5. What was Susan’s bad dream, and how did Mandy calm her?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 17 and 18
1. Why was Mandy surprised to see Helga?
2. What changed when Mandy entered the fifth grade?
3. Why did Mandy want to talk to Miss LaFayette?
4. What happened when Mandy was in the fifth grade?
5. What did the McMichaels and Mikimotos realize when Roosevelt was re-elected for a third term?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 1, 2, and 3
1. When sledding, how did Helga and Lovisa catch Peter and Michael?
2. What was odd about Uncle Victor’s greeting?
3. What did Peter’s father and Uncle Victor disagree about in the Lundstrom's living room?
4. What did Peter think Uncle Victor wanted him and the other children to do? 5. Write a summary paragraph over Chapters 1, 2, and 3.

Chapters 4, 5, and 6
1. Why did Mr. Lundstrom take Peter on a night trip?
2. Why didn’t the men of the village send the gold to the United States before the Nazis came?
3. How did the men of Riswyk hide the gold?
4. What happened on April 8 and early morning on April 9?
5. Write a summary paragraph over Chapters 4, 5, and 6.

Chapters 7, 8, and 9
1. Who were made captains? What were they supposed to do?
2. How were the children supposed to take the gold to the Snake?
3. What pact did the children make before taking their first sled run?
4. What were the brown bricks? How valuable were they?
5. Write a summary paragraph over Chapters 7, 8, and 9.

Chapters 10, 11, and 12
1. How did the children meet the first company of German soldiers?
2. What made the children laugh?
3. How did the author make some Germans seem more human?
4. Where did the children sleep?
5. Write a summary paragraph over Chapters 10, 11, and 12.

Chapters 13, 14, and 15
1. Why couldn't the Germans make friends with the children?
2. Why was everyone in Riswyk worried about the weather? What did the weather do?
3. Why were there so many ski tracks on the way to the cave?
4. What happened because Peter would not talk to a German Commandant?
5. Write a summary paragraph over Chapters 13, 14, and 15.

Chapters 16, 17, and 18
1. How did Dr. Akers keep the school closed?
2. What did Dr. Akers say that kept the German doctor from seeing the patients?
3. What was beginning to scare Helga?
4. What did Peter decide to do, and what did he see that agreed with Helga's suspicions?
5. Write a summary paragraph over Chapters 16, 17, and 18.

Chapters 19, 20, and 21
1. Why was Peter allowed to sleep late?
2. What happened when Peter's mother passed the German soldiers?
3. How did Peter and his mother find the Clem Peerson?
4. Who did Uncle Victor say was watching the children? What was Uncle Victor waiting to do?
5. Write a summary paragraph over Chapters 19, 20, and 21.

Chapters 22, 23, 24, and 25
1. What did Fru Holm tell about the soldier at her home?
2. Who figured out what the children were doing? What happened to him?
3. What was the captured man's story?
4. What happened when Jan was missed by the Germans?
5. Write a summary paragraph over Chapters 22, 23, 24, and 25.

Chapters 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30
1. Why was the Commandant angry?
2. How did Peter keep the Commandant from finding the gold under Lovisa's snowman?
3. How did Jan rescue Peter?
4. Why did Peter have to go to America?
5. Write a summary paragraph over Chapters 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30.

Chapter 1
1. What did Jerry want to do different than Bill and Jeff with the hole near the Cooper’s excavation site?
2. What happened to Jerry in the hole?
3. What did Mr. Pippen and Mr. Andrews hope Dr. Cooper would find?
4. What did Dr. Cooper and his crew find after following the melody of the flute?
5. What did the goatherd tell Dr. Cooper and his crew?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 2 and 3
1. Who did Dr. Cooper meet near the statue of Dagon? How did this man say he could help?
2. Who sang The Song of Ha-Raphah above ground?
3. Who went down the ventilation shaft first, and why did he go first?
4. What was odd about the room at the bottom of the shaft?
5. What happened to the Coopers and Ben-Arba in the tunnels?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapter 4
1. Where did the masked holy men take the Coopers?
2. What did the Coopers do to upset Mara the Sorceress?
3. What happened to the other man in the room?
4. What did Mara say happened to Jerry?
5. What reason did Dr. Cooper give Mara for excavating the tombs?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapter 5
1. How was Dr. Cooper able to answer Mara’s riddles?
2. Who were Anak Ha-Raphah’s ancestors, and why was Mara so important?
3. How did the Coopers and crew find Ben-Arba?
4. What sound did Lila hear, and what did she do?
5. Who was behind Lila as she tried to escape the ravine?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 6 and 7
1. As Dr. Cooper, Jay, Jeff, Bill, and Ben Arba were saving Lila what were the Yahrim doing?
2. What did Lila tell her family about Ha-Raphah?
3. What did Ben-Arba, Dr. Cooper, and his crew find at the sacrificial pit, the home of One-Leg, and their camp? What did the objects mean?
4. What happened to One-Leg, the goat herder?
5. How were the Coopers and Ben-Arba in camp and in the rocks above their camp at the same time?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapter 8
1. What did Dr. Cooper talk about with Ben Arba as they waited in the rocks?
2. Why did Dr. Cooper leave his hiding place?
3. Why did Ben-Arba scream?
4. What did Mara tell Dr. Cooper about Ha-Raphah? Why had she imitated Jay's voice to call Dr. Cooper?
5. Who lured Lila and Jay to the pit?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapter 9
1. Who surrounded Bill, Jeff, and Dr. Cooper? How did they have to react?
2. How did Ben-Arba save Dr. Cooper’s party from the Yahrim?
3. How had Mara’s desire for wealth and power backfired on her?
4. After they prayed, what did Jeff, Bill, Dr. Cooper, and Ben-Arba discover?
5. After Jay and Lila prayed, what happened?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 10 and 11
1. What did Jay and Lila do to trick Anak as they left the ceremonial room?
2. How did the letters that intersected in the crossword type puzzle help Dr. Cooper and the others make their way through the tunnel?
3. Just when Anak had Lila and Jay trapped what happened to Dr. Cooper, Ben-Arba, Bill, and Jeff?
4. How did Dr. Cooper get Anak's attention? What was Anak's downfall?
5. What did Ben-Arba realize about himself and the Yahrim after they found the treasure?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapter 2
1. What upset Lila about going to the cargo area?
2. What did the air controller in Honolulu do to try and find the C-141 Starlifter?
3. Why was the commander at the Yokota Air Base upset about the lost plane?
4. What started the gunfire, and what made it worse?
5. How did Lieutenant Jamison help Lila as the plane was breaking apart?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 3 and 4
1. What was Dr. Cooper told when he called the Yokota Air Base? How did he react?
2. Did Colonel Griffith answer Dr. Cooper's questions about the missing flight?
3. When Lila woke up, what did she do?
4. Why did Colonel Griffith meet Dr. Cooper and Jay?
5. When Lila remembered a Bible verse in the middle of her prayer, what did she do?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapter 5
1. How did a preacher rescue Dave, Dr. Cooper, and Jay on the island of Kurnoe?
2. What did Jerry know about the missing plane?
3. How did Dr. Cooper, Dave, and Jay get involved in a fight over the winnings of a snail-eating contest?
4. How did Dave stop the fight?
5. Why was Mrs. Flaherty in a snail-eating contest?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 6 and 7
1. How did the rebels try to get even with Dr. Cooper, Jay, Dave, Jerry and Mrs. Flaherty?
2. What did Lila do when she woke up in the pod?
3. What did the Coopers find out in the boat on their way to Tukani?
4. When Dave, Mrs. Flaherty, Dr. Cooper and Jay made it to Tukani what were they trapped between?
5. How did the navy or the communist boat win?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapter 8
1. Who was in charge of the Philippine rebels and what was he looking for?
2. What information did Ivanovich want from Dr. Cooper’s group?
3. Explain how Ivanovich’s faulty assumptions led to the death of a man.
4. When Lila thought about leaving the weapons pod, what did she remember about her mom?
5. How did Ivanovich convince Dr. Cooper and his group to tell him what he wanted to know?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 9 and 10
1. Who surrounded the group while Ivanovich waited for the information, and what did they do?
2. What did Ivanovich offer the Sutolos for his life?
3. What surprised Dr. Cooper as he was being led through the jungle by the Sutolos?
4. What was in Kolo's treasures, and why did it give Dr. Cooper and Jay hope?
5. How did Mrs. Flaherty help Dr. Cooper show how hurt he was?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapter 11
1. Compare Lila’s story with the story of Jonah.
2. What did the Sutolos find the next morning?
3. Why did Kolo decide to help Dr. Cooper?
4. What did Lieutenant Adams tell Dr. Cooper about the laser in the weapons pod and the USS Findley?
5. What did Ivanovich do when he heard the chopper and saw the navy cruiser nearby?
6. Summarize this section.

Chapters 12 and 13
1. What happened when Lila pressed the activate button on the device in the pod?
2. What did the men on the USS Findley decide to do when the laser activated itself?
3. What happened when Lila pushed the activate button a second time?
4. What did Lieutenant Adams think was a miracle about Lila living in the pod for five days?
5. What breakthrough occurred in the Coopers' lives?
6. Summarize this section.