The Divide by Elizabeth Kay

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Comments:  This is my all time favorite book.  I highly recommend this book to kids, they will fall in love with the characters.  This is the type of story that is a great read for adults.  This is part one of her trilogy.  I'm surprise this book isn't more popular.

Book Title: The Divide
Author: Elizabeth Kay
ISBN: 0-439-45696-7


Chapter 1
1. Was it a man or a woman lying on the stretcher?
2. The person on the stretcher was bitten by?
3. What did the person follow that made him/her get lost in the jungle?
4. How old is Felix?
5. In which country is Felix on vacation?
6. What are epiphytes?
7. What is the Continental Divide?
8. What does Betony look like?
9. Who is Ramson?
10. How old are Betony, Tansy, and Ramson?
11. What is the name of Grisette’s daughter?
12. Betony hated saying with Grisette’s daughter, why?
13. What was the name of the place they lived?
14. What did Betony’s father break as he tried to stop the family cart from rolling down the hill?
15. What happened to Betony’s parents when her mom tried to fix her husband’s arm?
16. What types of creatures are found in their forest?
17. What are Brittlehorns?
18. Who lives at Tromm Fell?
19. What is rumor to be found there?
20. Where else are Brazzles to be found?
21. Why didn’t the Brittlehorn fly away when it saw Betony?
22. What did Betony give the Brittlehorn?
23. What is the name of the Brittlehorn?

Chapter 2
1. When Felix came to, was he in the same place?
2. When Felix woke up he could see less vegetation and he could no longer see the sea.  True or False
3. Was there a forest where the Pacific Ocean was once?
4. What kind of creature was Ironclaw?
5. What types of items do not work in dreams?
6. Betony ran into what type of creature?
7. What type of conversation did Felix have with the brazzle?
8. What type of conversation did Betony have with the worrit?
9. Worrits kill their prey by making them laugh to death.  True or False
10. They turned their noses up at anything that had passed (died) away not laughing.  Who is “they”? ___________________________  Is this statement true or false?
11. What type of creature did Felix meet next after the brazzle?
12. After Felix controlled himself from laughing at the worrit and almost dying of laughter, how did the worrit look at Felix?
13. Do you think the worrit is more dangerous than the brazzle?

Chapter 3
1. Who was sitting opposite of Felix when he woke up?
2. What does Betony mean by when she said “a dog’s a mythical creature.  It doesn’t really exist.”?
3. Why does Betony think Felix has mutilated ears?
4. Why did Felix believe Betony is an elf?
5. Why does Felix believe he is in the afterlife?
6. What did Felix do, that is impossible in Betony’s world, right before she placed green mush on Felix’s knee?
7. Japegrins had red hair and wore purple clothes.  Some wore black and Ramson referred to them as the _______________________.  Why did Ramson think they were the militia?
8. What is a Japegrin?
9. What was the entertainment at the conference center?
10. Why was the audience relieved when the japegrin came out of the worrit costume?  At first the audience thought it was a worrit that was making them laugh and they ran a risk of laughing to death.
11. What type of conference was being held at the conference center?
12. Who is Snakeweed?
13. What kind of person comes to mind with a name like “Snakeweed”?
14. What was the name of the biggest healing organization?
15. Why do you think Tansy doesn’t trust Snakeweed?
16. Global Panaceas (G.P.) wants to work with tangle-persons to have access to their discoveries.  Do you think this is a good idea for the tangle-persons to work with G.P.?
17. Did Ramson and Tansy signed with Global Panaceas?
18. What do you think the message is for the brittlehorns?

Chapter 4
1. By the time Felix and Betony reached the brittlehorns’ valley, Felix was a celebrity.  True or False
2. What was at the end of the brittlehorn valley?
3. “Wallow” means to roll about in or as if in deep mud.  Example: Elephants wallowing in the river.  What do they mean in the story, “a mud wallow, which wasn’t very attractive to a human being, but was the height of luxury for a brittlehorn”?
4. Silvershank died when Betony found him.  True or  False
5. What do you think Silvershank’s message means, “Tell them not to take…”?
6. What do you think the leader of the brittlehorns means by “I’ll need to meditate on it for a while”?
7. What does the word “foal” mean?
8. What was the name of the brittlehorn that took them to the brittlehorns’ valley?
9. Which brittlehorn mixed Felix’s remaining pills to taste better?
10. What did the leader of the brittlehorns tell Felix how he (Felix) got to their world?
11. Why did Felix persist on going to Tiratattle?
12. What are fire-breathers?
13. Who was willing to take Felix to Tiratattle?
14. Instead of taking Felix to Tiratattle, the brittlehorn offered to take Felix to see?

Chapter 5
1. What are crystal-ball parlors?
2. Whare are Ragamuckies?
3. Who went to the crystal-ball parlors?
4. What did the wizened little Ragamucky tell Ramson and Tansy what she saw in the crystal ball?
5. What did Woodsmoke say to Ramson and Tansy?
6. Why does Tansy get a bad feeling about Helvella?
7. Why does Woodsmoke go to see Snakeweed?
8. Why isn’t Snakeweed interested in Felix at first?
9. What did Woodsmoke sayto Snakeweed to get him to be interested in Felix?
10. What is a flame-bird?
11. What appeared after Snakeweed rubbed two pebbles together?
12. What were the names of the Sinistroms?
13. What did Snakeweed want Architrex to do?
14. What did Architrex and Vomidor do at the end of the chapter to Woodsmoke?
15. Do you think Woodsmoke had good intentions when she found out about Felix?

Chapter 6
1. Did Ramson go with Tansy to the terminal?
2. Who was at the terminal with the other twenty passangers?
3. Tansy nudged a lickit and pointed to the sinistrom.  The lickit yelled and said, “Get a move, will you!  There’s a sinistrom heading this way!”  Why are people afraid of the sinistrom?
4. Did Ramson get arrested?
5. Was Ramson accused of two murders?
6. Who waited for Ramson outside the jail?
7. From where does Betony tell Felix that sinistroms come from?
8. What did Betony, Felix, Chalky and Snowdrift find in trouble on their way to Tiratattle?
9. Who did Tansy visit first?
10. Who did Ramson meet in jail?

Chapter 7
1. What is the name of the last village before entering Tiratattle?
2. Why did Betony feel uncomfortable at Drokking?
3. What did the brittlehorns smell?
4. What did the brittlehorns eat?
5. How did Chalky die?
6. How did the sinistroms turn to stone?
7. Did Betony and Ramson get away from the sinistroms?

Chapter 8

1. What was the name of Agrimony’s fire-breather?
2. Who is Grisette?
3. Who was a good friend with Tansy’s mother?
4. Who rode the fire-breather to Tromm Fell from Grisette’s house?
5. Who assumed the form of a lickit when they arrived to Tiratattle?
6. The conference center that Architrex took Felix appeared to be ______________.
7. Once Architrex and Felix were inside the conference center, it opened out like a vast ________________________________.
8. What type of clothes was Snakeweed wearing?
9. What was the name of Ironclaw’s friend?
10. In the city of Tiratattle, what was the lickit district like?
11. What is the ragamucky quarter like?
12. What was the japegrin precinct like?

Chapter 9

1. What did Betony show Ramson at jail that proved that Felix existed?
2. What color were the clothes that Felix had to wear for dinner with Snakeweed?
3. What did the ragamucky say to Felix before he sat down to have dinner with Snakeweed?
4. What did Felix have for dinner?
5. What was the shrimp made from?
6. What were the strawberries made from?
7. Which objects didn’t work in front of Snakeweed when Felix tried demonstrating them?
8. When Felix couldn’t get the objects to work, did Snakeweed think he was a tangle child?  (circle) Yes   No, why?
9. What did Granitelegs and Ironclaw do with the sinistrom?
10. What was the name of the sinistrom?
11. How did the sinistrom appeared?
12. Was Grimspite lost in his new place? (circle) Yes  No,  why?
13. Grimspite saw a sign that read “You Are Here.”  Was he lost?
14. Do you think Ironclaw found a spell to get Felix back to his world?
15. As Granitelegs reads Ironclaw’s calculations, it started to rain.  Did they lose the spell on how to get Felix home?
16. Who did Felix meet in jail?
17. How did Felix open the cell door?
18. Where did Progg say Felix should go to find a remedy for his illness?

Chapter 10

1. How did Milklegs see how Chalky and Snowdrift die? (A)
2. What can the A be used for that is located in the brittlehorn’s valley?
3. When does the A work as a crystal ball?
4. How did Progg die?
5. What was the name of the hotel Betony was staying at?
6. What do you think was lurking in the canal?
7. Who did Ironclaw meet on his way to Tiratattle? (B)
8. What did B sell to Ironclaw? (C)
9. How much did Ironclaw pay for the C?
10. What was the name of the C that B sold to Ironclaw?
11. What is a “quaff-by date” that was printed on the C?

Chapter 11

1. What was the name of Felix’s mother?
2. What was the name of Felix’s father?
3. What did Grimspite think Felix’s parents were doing with the flowers?
4. What did Grimspite say to Felix’s parents?
5. What is Grimspite’s first mission in our world?
6. What did Felix and Ironclaw discuss around the camp fire?
7. What did Ironclaw find fascinating about the conversation?
8. What type of posters did Agrimony and Tansy see in the city of Tiratattle?
9. Who approached Agrimony and Tansy about advertising a cosmetic product?
10. Who was the lickit that scared Tansy at Tiratattle?
11. Where is Ramson staying in Tiratattle?

Chapter 12

1. At the beginning of the chapter, Felix did a spell on a candle that only the green wax materialized to a creature.  What type of creature do you think materialized?
2. Betony told Felix that magic has rules.  What are the three rules she mentioned?
3. What did Betony tell Felix magic could do?
4. Do king and queens have power in Betony’s world?
5. Who has the power in Betony’s world?
6. Agrimony was having the time of her life with Squill.  Who tangled her hair?
7. Agrimony will make appearances to tell people how great Snakeweed’s headache remedy is.  Where will she make these appearances?
8. Do you think Agrimony will tell lies about Snakeweed’s headache remedy after they told her how much money they would pay her?
9. What was the first thing Grimspite killed and ate in our world?
10. What creature do you think Grimspite ran into when he was looking for candles in people’s homes?
11. Where did Grimspite find candles?
12. Who watched Tansy climbed down the hotel ladder?
13. Did Architrex think Tansy died by jumping into the canal?

Chapter 13

1. What do you think Felix, Betony, and Ironclaw saw flying over the snowy mountains?
2. What did the traders on top of the mountain order Ironclaw to do?
3. Were the traders japegrins or lickits?
4. Betony told the traders that they would like to buy a couple of cloaks.  What do you think the word cloaks means?
5. Where were the traders traveling to?
6. What happened to the cloaks when they took them off?
7. What did Ironclaw say about the library in Andria?
8. Ironclaw’s female friend was doing research on a brazzle called (A) ___________
9. Ironclaw said A worked for the king as a ____________________________ and __________________________________.
10. Felix tried doing magic again with candle wax and this time he created a           (B) ________________________.
11. What did B shouted out to Felix?
12. What was Betony surprised to see as they got closer to Andria?
13. Do they harvest food in Geddon?
14. Why does Felix feel Betony’s world is in a crucial time?

Chapter 14

1. Who is going to take singing and dancing lessons?
2. Who did Ramson meet at the fertle-juice bar?
3. Where did Architrex say the brazzle was heading after it ate Felix and Betony?
4. Who did Sankeweed invite to go with him to Andria?
5. Snakeweed told Architrex to offer the brazzle a contract to do what for him?
6. What did Snakeweed say to Architrex that sounded so cold blooded?
7. What were the buildings in Andria made off?
8. Where did Felix live in our world?
9. The domes reminded Felix of which universities?
10. The word “asymmetrical” appears on the top of page 209.  What does asymmetrical mean by the way it is used in this sentence?
11. What is the library made from?
12. Is the library older than the palace?  Yes    No
13. What is a centaur in their world?
14. A small-tail in Betony’s world is a half goat and half elf.  This is known in our world according to Felix as a (A) ___________________.
15. What did Betony say that A does for a job?
16. What was the name of Ironclaw’s wife?
17. What is the name of Ironclaw’s son?

Chapter 15

1. What did Tansy see when she was underneath the water? (A)
2. What does A remind you of from our world?
3. What was the name of A? (C)
4. What does A eat? (B)
5. Does A like the B’s for dinner?
6. What does A say they taste like?
7. Did C say Snakeweed’s remedies are getting into the food chain?  Yes   No
8. Is C afraid of becoming extinct?
9. What do tangle-folks do with their dead?
10. What do japegrins do with their dead?
11. What do lickits do with their dead?
12. What is the name of C’s wife?
13. What is the name of C’s and D’s child?
14. Did Architrex pick up Tansy’s & Felix’s scent off the road to Andria?   Yes   No
15. What was the man wearing who opened the door to the church?
16. Did this man, who opened the church, kick Grimspite out of  church?Yes  No
17. Did Agrimony have a talking mirror at her room at the Conference Center?  Yes   No

Chapter 16
1. What did Felix say elephants do? 4 answers
2. Did Felix feel Betony was the best friend he ever had?
3. Who saved Betony from drowning?
4. What did Thornbeak offer Betony?
5. What occupation (job) does Betony want to do?

Chapter 17
1. How many legs do starfish have in Betony’s world?
2. What color is the seaweed in Betony’s world?
3. What did Felix give Betony?
4. What was the name of the book Betony found?
5. Thornbeak’s aunt was once turned into a tree.
6. Who did Agrimony run into while walking around the ragamucky quarter in Tiratattle?
7. What was Agrimony’s plan to spread the news in Andria about Snakeweed’s remedy?
8. What was Snakeweed’s big idea about farms?
9. What type of bird landed in front of Felix and Betony during the concert?
10. What did the bird do for Felix and Betony to repay the favor he owed them?
11. Do you think Felix and Betony will ask the king and queen if they could enter the royal library or will they break-in to read the book?

Chapter 18
1. Why didn’t people want to stock the newspaper?
2. Who were the first to react to the newspaper articles?
3. Who reacted second?
4. Who reacted last?
5. Did all the shop owners stop promoting Snakeweed’s remedies?
6. What happened to the shops that carried Snakeweed’s remedies?
7. Did anyone get hurt?
8. Do they have newspapers in this world?
9. What do they think newspapers are?
10. From whom did Architrex take the newspaper?
11. How did Architrex take the newspaper away?
12. After reading the newspaper, what did Snakeweed say to Squill?
13. Does Snakeweed kill Squill, if not what happened?
14. How did  Felix describe Ramson when he discovered that Ramson used his book to create a printing press?
15. Who got invited to dine with the queen and king?
16. What was the name of the brazzle Snakeweed, Architrex, and Vomidor met at the beach?
17. How old was this brazzle?
18. Which brazzle and sinistrom fought?
19. Who won the fight?
20. How did the loser of the fight die?

Chapter 19
1. What did Betony and Agrimony have to drink at the castle?
2. What did the queen have no intention in learning?
3. What was served with a rich spicy sauce?
4. What did Betony ask the queen if they could do after dinner?
5. What type of paintings were on the wall?
6. What did the queen find boring?
7. What was the name of the book Betony was looking for?
8. Did the queen let her keep the book?
9. Did Agrimony leave the castle with Betony?
10. Where did Betony go, with the book, after she left the castle? (A)
11. Was Felix at A?
12. Where did the innkeeper say happened to Felix?
13. The innkeeper said Felix is at _______________________________.
14. How many brazzles were with Felix?
15. What did they need in order to recite Felix’s healing spell?
16. Did the spell work in curing Felix?
17. What did Ironclaw say that Thornbeak found inappropriate when Felix was coming to at the beach?
18. What do we use in our world to jolt people’s hearts back from death?
19. According to Thornbeak, for how many years can Felix live with this new heart?
20. On page 238, Felix had mixed feelings on how he felt.  He regarded Betony as his best friend.  True or False
21. What word was considered as bad joke to Felix?
22. What was the group’s (Betony, Felix, and the brazzles) plan to getting Felix back home?
23. What did Felix say he wanted to be when he grew up?

Chapter 20
1. What type of creature ran across Grimspite’s path that he couldn’t uncurl to eat?
2. What were the creatures that Grimspite found along a fence mooing? (A)
3. Did Grimspite enjoy eating A?
4. What type of book was Grimspite thinking of writing?
5. What would be the title of the book?
6. In what city could Agrimony see from the air smoke and people running in the streets?
7. In which quarter of the city was Ramson staying?
8. Who told Agrimony that the conference center was destroyed?
9. How did half of the city feel about Ramson, Tansy, and Dibber?
10. How did the other half feel about them?
11. After Agrimony saw the destruction, she decided to head back to ______________.
12. What is the name of the shreddermouth Agrimony ran into?
13. Where did Gulp say Tansy, Ramson, and Dibber are hiding?
14. What did Gulp say Tansy, Ramson, and Dibber want to do?
15. Did Snakeweed try to land at Tiratattle?
16. Was Snakeweed able to land and refuel (feed and water) his fire-breather?
17. Who rode to Tromm Fell on Stonetalon’s back?
18. Who rode on Ironclaw’s back?
19. How many days did it take them to fly to Tromm Fell from Andria?
20. What did Felix imagine Thornbeak joining in our world?
21. What did Felix imagine Ironclaw giving in our world?
22. Who greeted the group at Geddon when the fire-breather landed? (B)
23. Who is B?
24. What happen when Felix and Betony reached the ragamucky quarter?
25. Who was talking to Thornbeak? (C)
26. What did C do according to Thornbeak?

Chapter 21
1. How long was Felix in the other world?
2. Who was the other brazzle that joined them during the flight?
3. According to Granitelegs, what got wiped out in the rain?
4. Felix asked if he could return to this world in the future.  What was Ironclaw’s response?
5. What did Thornbeak give Felix?
6. What did Betony tell Felix to write down?
7. What did Felix give Betony?
8. What did Felix give Ramson?
9. Who arrived before Felix came back home?
10. Who said, “What makes you think that a magical cure from this world will have the slightest effect in yours?”
11. What was the air full of when Felix came back home?
12. To what country did Felix return to?
13. Where did Felix go once he returned to our world?
14. Who was the first person he saw? (A)
15. Where did A say Felix’s parents are?
16. A thinks _______________________ has been killing their cows.
17. People decided that it will be better for Felix to fly to England alone, instead of waiting for his parents to come to Costa Rica.  Where did A’s wife take Felix to catch a flight?
18. What was the first thing Architrex ate in our world?
19. Who was the first human Architrex saw in our world?
20. Architrex was about to spring when he got ________________.  Architrex felt a pain in his shoulder.  By the second shot, what happened to Architrex?
21. Where is Heathrow?
22. What is Heathrow?
23. Where did Snakeweed go first once he got to our world?
24. What did Snakeweed look at with interest?
25. What did Snakeweed see when he peered through one of the houses windows?
26. What does Snakeweed describe as a box of light?
27. What does Snakeweed describe as a metal box with wheels?
28. What did the doctor say about Felix’s health?