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Gypsy Rizka Study Guide

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by Lloyd Alexander
About 13 pages (3,833 words)
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Setting

The events of Gypsy Rizka take place in and near Greater Dunitsa: Greater Dunitsa boasted a spacious public square with an excellent horse trough in the middle. The town clock, which frequently told the right time, was much admired. For the comfort of travelers, Mr. Farkas provided a luxurious inn: the only one, but who needed another? The town barber, Mr. Pugash, had invented his own amazingly aromatic hair oil. The highly educated Mr. Mellish taught the young folk and occasionally strummed the zither. Big Franko, the blacksmith, could straighten a horseshoe with his bare hands. Not to be overlooked: all the rest of the town's diligent, public-spirited citizens.

When one provides the clock with a ghost, the inn with enormous fleas in its beds,.....

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Gypsy Rizka from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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