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  • What did Katie press her hand against?
    the glass of the train window
  • What did Roma wish she'd asked questions about?
    the album
  • What was inside the small white envelope?
    an old black and white photo
  • What didn't Roma's parents have money to buy or develop?
    film
  • Why did Roma have to face Mam?
    so that Mam could read her lips
  • Where did Roma eat dinner?
    in the restaurant car of the train
  • What did Roma place on the overhead rack?
    her shoes
  • Whose face peered out of a tiny corner of the photo?
    Roma's
  • When did Roma's dad come home?
    on weekends
  • Who is LIz?
    Roma's sister
  • What word did Roma hear hundreds, thousands of times?
    Listen!
  • When did Roma's body rock back and forth?
    when she walked in the aisle
  • What made a loud bump?
    the train
  • How long would Roma's trip take?
    16 hours
  • Why did Roma have to listen for two people?
    because her mother's ears did not hear
  • When did Mam have to rely on Roma even more?
    after Roma's dad's death
  • When did Roma's dad pass away?
    when Roma was only 7
  • What did someone need to order for Mam?
    coal
  • Where did Roma's mom look when the train made a loud bump?
    to Roma's lips (for an explanation)
  • Who did Roma argue with as a child?
    Liz
  • What was the first sentence Roma ever spoke?
    "Mam. Baby crying."
  • Where did Roma work?
    at an outpatient clinic in a small hospital
  • Where did the dirt path lead?
    to the shore of the Manor River
  • What did Roma hope to soften?
    the crisp sheets
  • Name 4 things Roma and Liz did together as children
    played, laughed, argued, shared secrets
  • What was Roma's job when she was a child?
    to tell Mam what was going on; to report to Mam
  • Who was Mam's first-born child?
    Roma
  • Whose face disappeared?
    Katie's
  • What chugged forward?
    the train
  • What did Roma check?
    the lock on the door of her roomette
  • What would the women do at the dinner party?
    share stories about growing up and deafness in their families
  • Who did Mam take with her on trips to Belleville?
    Roma and Liz
  • What hung on a hook?
    Roma's purse
  • What swung back and forth?
    Roma's purse
  • Where did Mam travel to visit deaf friends?
    Belleville
  • Why did Roma stretch her legs and wiggle her feet?
    because she wanted to soften the crisp sheets
  • What did Mam need to remember to add to the stove?
    coal
  • Who did Roma interpret for?
    deaf patients
  • What was inside the purse?
    a small white envelope
  • What is Roma's daughter's name?
    Katie
  • What language did Roma learn as a child?
    American Sign Language (ASL)
  • What rocked from side to side?
    the train
  • Where did the train take Roma's family one summer?
    Toronto
  • What rushed by the window?
    the night
  • Where did Roma's dad work?
    out of town
  • What did Roma smooth?
    the wrinkled bedding
  • Who would meet Roma at the station?
    Liz
  • Where did Mam learn to use sign language and use her voice?
    at a school for deaf children
  • What pulled down?
    the bed
  • Why did Liz invite Roma to Montreal?
    to introduce Roma to two friends
  • What did Roma wiggle?
    her feet
  • When did Roma and Liz find the photo?
    When they were cleaning out Mam's old house to get it ready for sale
  • What was the sound of the wheels?
    clack clack
  • Why did Roma check the lock on the sliding door?
    because she didn't want anyone walking in during the night
  • Why did Roma pull down the stiff blind?
    so no one could see in
  • What was the name of the river near Roma's chidhood home?
    Manor River
  • What did Roma pull at?
    Mam's skirt
  • What did Roma stretch?
    her legs
  • Why did Mam stay silent during train trips?
    She feared she would speak too loudly/she was afraid she would forget to control her voice
  • Who was Roma worried about?
    Mam
  • What would the women share?
    stories
  • Who called out when the train stopped?
    the conductor
  • What did Roma do while sitting on the bed?
    undressed
  • What month is it at the beginning of Chapter 1?
    October
  • What did Roma sip cool water from?
    small paper cups
  • What did the photo look like
    faded, with one torn edge
  • Who asked Roma's family where they were going?
    the conductor
  • Where did Roma and Liz grow up?
    on the edge of a small town called Manor in Ontario
  • Why did Katie stay home?
    tp go to school
  • Who did Roma talk to at the beginning of the chapter
    herself
  • What was the coal for?
    the stove
  • When did Roma's dad work?
    Monday to Friday
  • Who did Roma's husband hold up?
    Katie
  • When did Mam die?
    6 months earlier
  • How did Roma's dad pass away?
    in an accident
  • How did Roma's mother become deaf?
    She suffered an illness as a baby
  • What did Roma tell herself to keep open?
    her eyes and ears
  • Where would Roma arrive?
    in Montreal
  • How did Roma's Mam feel/sense the train?
    through her hands, arms, feet, legs and skin
  • Why did Roma pull at Mam's skirt
    to get her attention
  • What did Roma book?
    a roomette in a sleeping car
  • What did Roma's dad do for a living?
    worked for the railroad
  • What did Roma loook out?
    the train window
  • What did Roma and Liz call their mother?
    Mam
  • Which of Roma's parents was not deaf?
    her father
  • What did Roma and Liz's house look like?
    old and small
  • Why did Roma like to travel by train?
    because she liked to have time alone
  • Where did Roma fit her palm?
    to Katie's palm
  • How long would Roma stay with her sister?
    5 days
  • What did Liz ask Roma to choose to bring to Montreal?
    one photo
  • What flew by in the night?
    dark shadows
  • Who did Roma's photo used to belong to?
    Mam
  • What gave a jerk?
    the train
  • Who felt every shudder and shake of the train?
    Mam
  • When did Roma learn ASL?
    as a child
  • What did Roma change into?
    a nightgown
  • What did Roma keep thinking back to?
    her childhood
  • When was Liz born?
    When Roma was nineteen months old
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