A Dangerous Fortune | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Prologue

1. Why are the boys in detention in the Prologue of the book?

Someone stole money.

2. What kind of a school is Windfield?

A boarding school.

3. What do Micky and Edward do to the other boys at the watering hole?

They throw their clothes in the water.

4. What is the relationship between Hugh and Edward?

They are cousins.

5. Why is Tonio crying when he meets up with Hugh in the woods?

Peter drowned.

6. Why does Mr. Offerton send Hugh to the schoolmaster's office when he sees him in the courtyard in the Prologue?

Hugh's mother is there to see him.

7. Why did Pilaster and Co. shut down?

The bank collapsed.

8. To where does Danny run away in the Prologue?

America.

9. Why does Maisie leave home in the Prologue?

She does not want her mother to starve for her.

10....
(read more)