Discussion Director:
   1. the name of her illness and what caused it?
Answer: ìmilk sickî, it was caused by drinking the milk of cows that have eaten white snakeroot, a deadly plant that grows in deep shade, pg. 10.

    2. The author said that in the spring when Abe was nineteen years old, he left home perhaps for some reason.  What was that reason?
        a. To get away from his father
        b. To become a flatboat man of farm produce.
        c. To get away from the sorrows of the deaths of his mother and sister.
        d. To go and see more of the world
        Answer: c, pg. 14