1.How did Mr. Wasserman meet his untimely fate? What did the hotel people do about it?

2.Of what does the maid warn the narrator?

3.What does the narrator think of the way in which the men are dressed? the women?

4.How does the narrator feel about the turtle? What is special about this creature?

5.What does the narrator think of the way in which the men are talking?

6.Why does the narrator call this man "idiotic"?

7.What does the paunchy man want to do with the turtle?

8.What might happen to the turtle?

9.What alarms the narrator? What does he understand that the other people present do not understand?

10.Why is the muscular man not wearing a shirt?

11.Who is screaming and why?

12.What does the boy try to get the people to do?

13.Why do the people have a "hangdog air"?

14.What does the narrator think of the boy and why?

15.Of what does the fisherman warn the boy?

16.Why do the people back away? What don't they understand?

17.What offer does the boy's father make and why?

18.What prediction does the hotel manager make?

19.What changes the manager's mind? What sort of person is the manager?

20.What reason does the fisherman give for not letting the turtle go?

21.What does the boy call the turtle? Why?

22.Why are the guests subdued? What strange thing had "come fluttering across the beach"?

23.What do you think might have happened to the boy?

24.Is Mr. Edwards really worried about the boy's safety? How do you know?

25.What do you think the fishermen have seen?

26.What did the fishermen see?

27.Why do you think the boy never even looked around? Why doesn't he want to return?

28.What is the result of the search for the boy?

29.What do the boy and the turtle do when they are spotted?

30.Why might the narrator doubt that the boy will come back?