Name:_________________________
Date:_____________________

The Westing Game
by Ellen Raskin

Chapter Nineteen: Odd Relatives

"Age: 57. Mother died at childbirth, raised by father (deceased). Education: 1 year of high school. Married at 16, divorced at 40. Exhusband's name: Windy Windkloppel. Hospital records: problems related to chronic alcoholism. Police records: 3 arrests for vagrancy. Gave up alcohol when she took up religion. Started the Good Salvation Soup Kitchen on Skid Row. Works as cleaning woman in Sunset Towers, lives in maid's apartment on fourth floor. Westing connection: ?"

Choose and answer three of the following:
1. What does the word "vagrancy" mean? Look it up in a dictionary and write the definition below. Why would someone be arrested for "vagrancy?"

2. Which resident of Sunset Towers is this paragraph describing? Provide evidence below.

3. Why might this person have dropped out of high school?

4. What new information have you learned from this paragraph? There is a clue in there somewhere. What might be the clue? Why do you think so?