Study Questions
1. Whispering the “awful word,” Sissy divulges that her father is a what?
2. What word always reminds Sissy of stutterings?
3. What “terrible communication” does Sissy make about her mother?
4. What does Sissy remember her father doing when she was “quite a baby”?
5. What is Sissy’s reply to Louisa’s question about where she lived with her father?
6. Which of the stories Sissy read her father did he seem particularly to enjoy?
7. What was the object of Sissy’s father’s one outburst of...
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