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The Westing Game
by Ellen Raskin

Chapter 25: Westing's Wake

"'Poor Sandy, you should say,' Turtle responded angrily. 'Sandy's the one who's dead. Sandy was my friend.'
'You should have remembered that before you kicked him,' Denton Deere remarked.
'I never kicked Sandy, never.'
The intern turned sideways in his chair in case of attack, but the kicked stayed slumped in sadness.
'Well, someone kicked him today. That was some mean bruise he had on his shin.'
'That's a lie, that's a disgusting lie!' Turtle shouted. 'The only person I kicked today was Barney Northrup and he deserved it. I didn't even see Sandy until tonight at the Westing house. Right, Baba?'"

Choose and answer three of the following:
1. How do you think Sandy got a bruise on his shin? Why?

2. Describe Barney Northrup. What do you know about him?

3. How does Turtle feel in this excerpt? How can you tell?

4. Alliteration is the repetition of the initial consonant. There should be at least two repetitions in a row. (For example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. The first letter, p, is a consonant. It is repeated many times.) Underline the two instances of alliteration (not counting Peper Piper...)