Among the Hidden (questions and answers 2023) Rated A+v

1. What question word wasn't commonly asked in the Garner home? - ANSWER (Why?) p. 1 2. Why did Mr. Garner sell the woods on their property? - ANSWER (the Government wanted it to build houses) p. 2 3. What did Luke sometimes picture as a very big, mean, fat person who went around yelling at people. "Not allowed!" - ANSWER (the Government) p. 2 4. What is the name of the Garner's first-born son? - ANSWER (Matthew) p. 4 5. What is the name of the Garner's second-born son? - ANSWER (Mark) p. 4 6. When Mark celebrated his sixth birthday, what did he wish he could have? - ANSWER (a party) p.7 7. What kind of jam was dripping down the sides of the Luke's sixth birthday cake? - ANSWER (raspberry) p. 7 8. In the beginning of the book, what window was Luke not allowed to look out because people might catch a glimpse of his face? - ANSWER (kitchen side window) p. 8 9. What is the name of the law that forbids people to have more than two children? - ANSWER (the Population Law) p. 10 10. What object in the livingroom was Luke not allowed to use? - ANSWER ( the television) p. 10 11. How many sons did Mrs. Garner originally wish to have? - ANSWER (four - "Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, bless the bed that I lie on.") p. 11 12. What toy, which Luke played with in his room, once belonged to his grandfather? - ANSWER (toy train) p. 12 13. What branch of the law enforced the Population Law? - ANSWER (the Population Police) p. 10 14. Where was Luke's room located in the house? - ANSWER (in the attic) Why? (It had no windows) p. 14 15. Who often played the "Population Police" joke on Luke always out of his parents' earshot? - ANSWER (Mark) p. 14 16. What game did Mark offer to play with Luke in his room? - ANSWER (checkers) p. 14 17. What collection of models does Luke have in his room? - ANSWER (model cars) p. 15 18. As the woods disappeared, Mr. Garner only allowed Luke in a room where the windows were what? - ANSWER (covered) p. 12, 15 19. What "windows" did Luke discover in his room? - ANSWER (the ceiling vents on either side of his room) p. 16 20. Other than his family, what one human being had he caught a glimpse of while hiding under the sink in the mud room? - ANSWER (A tramp) p. 17 21. After a construction worker had asked about whether the Garner's had air conditioning, where was Luke to now eat his meals? - ANSWER (on the bottom steps of the stairs) p. 20-21 22. What was in the government letter that was a blow to the Garner family? - ANSWER (They had to sell all their hogs because the people in the newly built homes wouldn't be able to stand the pig smell) p. 25 23. Which Garner boy dreamed of owning his own hog farm some day? - ANSWER (Matthew) p. 25 24. What was the name of the Garner's nearest neighbour before the new houses were built? - ANSWER (the Willikers) p. 28 25. What arrived in the mail the day the Garner's got rid of their hogs? - ANSWER (the tax bill) p. 27 26. What does Mrs. Garner call the times in the day when she goes up to Luke's room to visit and talk with him? - ANSWER ("my Luke breaks") p. 28 27. Where does Mrs. Garner work in order to bring in more money for the tax bill? - ANSWER (a (chicken processing) factory) p. 30 28. What is the name for people who are unbelievably rich and had things ordinary people hadn't had in years? - ANSWER (Barons) p. 31 29. What do Mr. Garner, Matthew, and Mark call clothes such as clean dress pants, jackets and shiny shoes? - ANSWER (sissy clothes) p. 31 30. Who taught Luke to read and do math? - ANSWER (Mrs. Garner) p. 32 31. Name two books on farming/agriculture that Luke read to pass time? - ANSWER ("Diseases of the Porcine Species" and "Common Grasses of our Countryside") p. 31 32. During their lunches together, what did Mr. Garner and Luke usually do? - ANSWER (listen to the radio; no talking) p. 33 33. When Mrs. Garner came home at 6:30pm, what was the first thing she would do? - ANSWER (stop in and say hi to Luke in his room) p. 33 34. Before the woods came down, what games did Luke play with his brothers outside? - ANSWER (kick ball, football, or spud) p. 34 35. What story about the factory was Luke's mom telling him when he was tucked in for the last time? - ANSWER (how her plastic glove had gotten stuck in a chicken she'd de-gutted that day) p. 34 36. What were some of the "family" names that Luke made up for his new neighbours? - ANSWER (Big Car, Gold, Birdbrain and Sports Families) p. 37 37. Who finds Luke downstairs in the kitchen, the day Luke was cleaning up the house and cooking bread? - ANSWER (Mr. Garner/his dad) p. 38-39 38. What was Luke's dad hoping to buy at the auction in Chytlesville? - ANSWER (A tractor) p. 46 39. When Mark made a negative comment on the bread that Luke made, what did Luke threaten that he put in one of the loaves? - ANSWER (poison that only affects 14 year olds) p. 46 40. What "family" had all their windows totally blocked, covered by heavy blinds? - ANSWER (the "Sports" family) p. 48 41. What did Luke see in a window at the Sports' Family house the day his dad caught him cleaning the house? - ANSWER (a child's face) p. 41 42. Why did Matthew and Mark stay out of/miss school for some time? - ANSWER (helped bring crops in - harvest time) p. 51 43. In the month of October, what does Luke plan to do? - ANSWER (sneak into the Sports' Family's house and meet the other third child) p. 52 44. What is the term that describes the ability of people calling out to you were in danger? - ANSWER (telepathy) p. 55 45. When Luke got to the screen door of the