1. Describe a real-life rabbit show.

Why would Jane want to see the judging?

2. What are some of the ways a fryer rabbit can be prepared as food?

3. Describe the business of raising and selling rabbits. Is the portrayal of the business in The Solitary accurate?

4. What are the real-life effects on a child of the kind of abuse Jane endured?

5. Jane's increasing competence is very appealing. What other books emphasize a character's growing competence? How does The Solitary measure up to them?

6. Jane grows much of her food in a garden. What should a person grow in a garden if he or she wishes to live off the food grown in it?

7. In America, how often do wives murder their husbands? What happens to the wives? Is Evangeline's experience typical? Do men who murder their wives receive the same legal...