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Prologue-Chapter 2
Reading Check
1. Driving (Prologue)
2. High School (Chapter 1)
3. Guam (Chapter 1)
4. Shirley (Chapter 1)
5. Married (Chapter 1)
6. Neckties (Chapter 1)
7. At his father’s family bar (Chapter 1)
8. Joe (Chapter 2)
Short Answer
1. He was unable to reserve the plot beside his parents’ burial site for himself. (Prologue)
2. Jarrett’s father was in a relationship already when he got together with Jarret’s mother (Chapter 1)
3. There were often people coming and going from the house. Sometimes he would find strange men in the house. (Chapter 2)
4. She would often ignore Jarrett, shoplift, avoid her family, and have sinister guests visiting the house. (Chapter 2)
5. Jarrett began to experience stability. He remembers being surprised to have breakfast every morning. (Chapter 2)
Chapters 3-5
Reading Check
1. Alcohol abuse (Chapter 3)
2. Spectrum House (Chapter 3)
3. Snow Cone (Chapter 3)
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