Castle

Question 1

the Blackwoods were never much of a family for restlessness and stirring. p1

Answer 1

Merricat

Question 2

Fridays and Tuesdays were terrible days, because I had to go into the village. p1

Answer 2

Merricat

Question 3

Stella would see me pass if I did not go in, and perhaps think I was afraid, and that thought I could not endure. p2

Answer 3

Merricat assuming the thoughts of a barista worker about herself

Question 4

In this village the men stayed young and did the gossiping and the women aged with grey evil wariness and stood silently waiting for the men to get up and come home. p3

Answer 4

Merricat

Question 5

The people of the village have always hated us. p4

Answer 5

Merricat

Question 6

I always hesitated, vulnerable exposed, on the side of the road while the traffic went by. p5

Answer 6

Merricat

Question 7

I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have a little house all by myself on the moon. p14

Answer 7

Merricat

Question 8

Down in the boneyard 10 feet deep! p16

Answer 8

Town children rhyming words to Merricat as she passes

Question 9

I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world p16

Answer 9

Merricat attempting to ignore villagers that are tormenting her in a singsong tone

Question 10

Their tongues will burn, I thought, as though they had eaten fire. Their throats will burn when the words come out, and in their bellies they will feel a torment hotter than 1000 fires. p17

Answer 10

Merricat talking about villagers, especially children that are tormenting her in the streets

Question 11

The highway’s built for common people p18

Answer 11

Merricat’s mother talking about society

Question 12

The good people, the clean and rich ones dressed in satin and lace p18

Answer 12

Merricat talking about rightful people coming to visit their castle

Question 13

Merricat.. look how far I came today p19

Answer 13

Constance telling Merricat how far she got from the castle

Question 14

When I was small I thought Constance was a fairy princess. p20

Answer 14

Merricat describing Constance

Question 15

She was the most precious person in my world, always. p20

Answer 15

Merricat talking about her sister Constance

Question 16

Food of any kind was precious to Constance p20

Answer 16

Merricat

Question 17

I don’t recall that the Blackwoods ever mingled socially with the villagers. p29

Answer 17

Helen Clarke talking about the Blackwood family

Question 18

fate intervened. p31

Answer 18

Uncle Julian talking about how he survived the poisoning

Question 19

I can’t bear to hear it talked about. p32

Answer 19

Helen Clarke

Question 20

I have exhaustive notes on all that happened. I have never been well since. p32

Answer 20

Uncle Julian

Question 21

My brother, as head of the family, sat naturally at the head of the table p33

Answer 21

Uncle Julian

Question 22

John Blackwood took pride in his table, his family, his position in the world. p33

Answer 22

Uncle Julian

Question 23

But she was acquitted. Not only of the deed, but of the intention. -36

Answer 23

Uncle Julian

Question 24

That impossible woman… Ill bred, pretentious, stupid. Why she keeps coming I’ll never know. p39

Answer 24

Constance talking about Helen Clarke

Question 25

I always want to frighten them more. p39

Answer 25

Merricat

Question 26

A change was coming, and nobody knew it but me. p40

Answer 26

Merricat

Question 27

Even Jonas was fretful p40

Answer 27

Merricat

Question 28

I had always buried things p41

Answer 28

Merricat

Question 29

Here is treasure for you to bury p41

Answer 29

Constance to Merricat

Question 30

All the Blackwood women had made food and had taken pride in adding to the great supply of food in our cellar. p42

Answer 30

Merricat

Question 31

You bury food the way I bury treasure p42

Answer 31

Merricat to Constance

Question 32

We never touched what belonged to others; Constance said it would kill us if we ate it. p42

Answer 32

Merricat talking about preserved jars of food Blackwood women had made and stored in the castle

Question 33

There's a change coming p43

Answer 33

Merricat telling Constance

Question 34

I decided that I would choose three powerful words, words of strong protection, and so long as these great words were never spoken aloud no change would come. p44

Answer 34

Merricat trying to stop change from coming by using these three words: melody p44 Gloucester p44 Pegasus p46

Question 35

We were guarded by the house and no one from outside could see so much as a light. p50

Answer 35

Merricat

Question 36

I knew already that he was one of the bad ones p55

Answer 36

Merricat talking about cousin Charles before he even arrives

Question 37

I had been lying on the cot at the orphanage, staring at the ceiling, wishing they were all dead, waiting for Constance to come and take me home. p56

Answer 37

Merricat talking about the people who took Constance away

Question 38

our cousin Charles Blackwood. I knew him at once; he looks like Father. p57

Answer 38

Constance talking about cousin Charles to Merricat

Question 39

He stood up; he was taller now that he was inside, bigger and bigger as he came closer to me. p57

Answer 39

Merricat talking about Charles greeting her

Question 40

Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon will eat rose petals. p59

Answer 40

Merricat telling Constance

Question 41

Some rose petals are poisonous. p59

Answer 41

Constance telling Merricat

Question 42

On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons. p.60

Answer 42

Merricat imaging what things would be like on the moon

Question 43

and the day fell apart around me. p60

Answer 43

Merricat's feelings after Constance said that cousin Charles was still asleep in the castle

Question 44

I could not breathe, I was tied around tight, everything was cold. p61

Answer 44

Merricat struggling after being told that cousin Charles was asleep in the castle

Question 45

He was a ghost. p61

Answer 45

Merricat talking about cousin Charles

Question 46

I could breathe a little; it was going to be all right. Cousin Charles was a ghost, but a ghost that could be driven away. p61

Answer 46

Merricat trying to come to terms with cousin Charles being present in the house

Question 47

puzzled by the sound of a foot stepping upstairs where there had always been silence before. It was unpleasant, this walking overhead. p62

Answer 47

Merricat talking about cousin Charles' footsteps walking overhead on the second story of the castle

Question 48

this footstep was heavy and even and bad. p62

Answer 48

Merricat talking about cousin Charles' footsteps walking overhead on the second story of the castle

Question 49

I still could not see him clearly, perhaps because he was a ghost, perhaps because he was so very big. p63

Answer 49

Merricat talking about cousin Charles

Question 50

His great round face, looking so much like our father's p63

Answer 50

Merricat talking about cousin Charles

Question 51

I'm not afraid to eat anything Constance cooks. p65

Answer 51

Charles telling Uncle Julian

Question 52

I suppose your reference was to arsenic. p65

Answer 52

Uncle Julian answering to Charles when he said he wasn't afraid of eating anything Constance cooks

Question 53

I don't have any winged horse. p69

Answer 53

Merricat refusing Constance's suggestion to take cousin Charles on her imaginary winged horse

Question 54

Every touch he made on the house must be a erased. p69

Answer 54

Merricat referring to cousin Charles

Question 55

It was important to choose the exact device to drive Charles away. And imperfect magic, or one incorrectly used, might only bring more disaster upon our house. p70

Answer 55

Merricat brainstorming ways to drive Charles away

Question 56

my father's book had fallen from the tree and let Charles in; books, then, were perhaps powerless against Charles. p71

Answer 56

Merricat

Question 57

if Charles had not gone away before three days I would smash the mirror in the hall. p71

Answer 57

Merricat

Question 58

Women alone like you are, you shouldn't keep money in the house. p74

Answer 58

Charles to Merricat

Question 59

I hope that the house, injured, would reject him by itself. p78

Answer 59

Merricat hoping the castle would reject Charles because he left a tiny burn on a chair in the drawing room from his pipe

Question 60

I wished Charles dead. p79

Answer 60

Merricat

Question 61

Your sister works like a slave... Constance is too busy... Run along and play. p81

Answer 61

Charles to Merricat when she asks for Constance to make Uncle Julian a little soft cake for his lunch

Question 62

“I think that we are going to have to forbid your wondering. It's time you quieted down a little. p81

Answer 62

Constance to Merricat

Question 63

We should have faced the world and tried to live normal lives. p82

Answer 63

Constance to Merricat

Question 64

We should have been living like other people. p82

Answer 64

Constance to Merricat

Question 65

He is dishonest. His father was dishonest. Both my brothers were dishonest. p83

Answer 65

Uncle Julian talking about Charles to Merricat

Question 66

You must tell him this, Constance. He is a bastard. p83

Answer 66

Uncle Julian

Question 67

A delicate touch... All the Blackwood women had a gifted touch. p85

Answer 67

Uncle Julian

Question 68

No more now. Now Constance and I want to talk, Uncle. We've got plans to make. p85

Answer 68

Charles telling Uncle Julian no more when he asks for Constance to play his favourite 'Blue-bells of Scotland' on the harp