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What was the reason for the girl's night visits?
What was the reason for the girl's night visits?
What did the girl call the silence she experienced at the coop?
What did the girl call the silence she experienced at the coop?
Who lived in a gingerbread brown house?
Who lived in a gingerbread brown house?
Why did the girl's father not want to believe she visited the coop?
Why did the girl's father not want to believe she visited the coop?
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What did the girl's father have set in concrete?
What did the girl's father have set in concrete?
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What was Robert's intention when he took his daughter out to visit with relatives and friends on Sundays?
What was Robert's intention when he took his daughter out to visit with relatives and friends on Sundays?
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What was Betsy Ann's initial reaction to seeing the barber's pigeons at the age of five?
What was Betsy Ann's initial reaction to seeing the barber's pigeons at the age of five?
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What did Miles's mother say to him after Betsy Ann ran back into the house?
What did Miles's mother say to him after Betsy Ann ran back into the house?
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What happened when Betsy Ann saw the pigeons for the second time three years later?
What happened when Betsy Ann saw the pigeons for the second time three years later?
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What did the gray pigeon in Betsy Ann's hand do?
What did the gray pigeon in Betsy Ann's hand do?
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Study Notes
Betsy Ann Morgan's Childhood
- Betsy Ann's father claimed she dreamed of visiting the birds at night, but she actually went out to see them through the kitchen window.
- The night visits started with her need to pee or get a drink of water, and she would walk past her sleeping father to the coop.
The Pigeons
- Betsy Ann experienced "pigeon silence" during her visits, a feeling she couldn't describe.
- She sometimes felt the urge to unlatch the door and touch the birds, but she never did.
- The pigeons began with Miles Patterson, a barber who lived near Betsy Ann's family.
Miles Patterson and the Pigeons
- Miles lived in a gingerbread brown house with his parents and owned a barbershop on the corner of 3rd and L streets.
- On Sundays, Betsy Ann's father would take her to visit relatives and friends, including Miles.
- Miles asked Betsy Ann to see his pigeons when she was five years old, and again when she was eight years old.
The First Encounter with the Pigeons
- The first time Betsy Ann saw the pigeons, they flew up and around Miles, who was surrounded by a colorful flutter of pigeon life.
- The birds settled on Miles' head, shoulders, and arms, and some looked down meanly at Betsy Ann.
- Betsy Ann screamed and ran back into the house, where she was found by Miles and his mother.
The Second Encounter with the Pigeons
- Three years later, Betsy Ann agreed to see the pigeons again, and this time, she was intrigued by the sight of the wings and bodies settling about Miles.
- She drew closer and stretched out her arm, and a bird landed on her shoulder and another in the palm of her hand.
- The gray one in her hand looked directly at her, blinked, and then turned its head.
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A quiz about a passage describing a young girl's possible nocturnal adventure and her father's perceptions of himself.
