The River Between Us Chapter 8

Why was the showboat event the last event of the showboats?

• They did not make enough money to continue.
• They were all to be turned into hospital ships for the soldiers or gunboats.
• The actors went on strike.
• The musicians went on strike.

Delphine insisted __________ went to the showboat as well after she said she was going to stay home.

• Tilly
• Cass
• Calinda
• Mama

What caused Mama to have a flicker of joy?

• Paw returned home.
• Delphine's dancing was beautiful.
• Noah went to war.
• Cass was all dressed up.

True or False. Only a few people came from Grand Tower to see the show.

• True
• False

How is the following statement an example of foreshadowing? What do you predict will happen? "Noah Pruitt, hair slicked, in his Paw's coat, sat by his womenfolk as the town had not seen us before, and never would again."

Who did the actors play in the play?

• Delphine and Calinda
• Jefferson Davis and his followers
• George and Martha Washington
• Abraham Lincoln and his two daughters

Who did the dutiful daughter represent?

• Jefferson Davis
• the Confederacy
• the Union
• Confederate soldiers

Who did the daughter who wouldn't listen represent?

• the Confederacy
• the Union
• Abraham Lincoln
• Ulysses S. Grant

Why was Delphine upset during the performance on the showboat?

• She did not like the actors.
• She was upset because she had already seen the play.
• She did not like the message about the Confederacy.
• She did not like it as she was not an actor in the play.

Last lines in the play: “Go then, our rash sister! Afar and aloof- run wild in the sunshine. Away from our roof. But when your heart aches and your feet have grown sore, remember the pathway that leads to our door!” Describe what Abraham Lincoln's last lines in the play mean. What is he saying?