1. What office is the narrator leaving? Why?

2. Why was she called "the one-shot kid"?

3. Why does the narrator give her mother a quick shake of the head? What does it mean?

4. Why did the animals go to the tar pits? What happened there?

5. How did the main character get her start in showbiz? How old was she?

6. Was the sister act a success? Why, or why not?

7. Why are skeletons of the young more apt to be scattered?

8. Why did the narrator get so many roles when she was younger?

9. What happened when she turned fifteen?

10. What does the reporter mean by "big head"? What does the narrator think he means?

11. Why is it hard to interpret past events at the tar pits?

12. What does the narrator's grandmother do to feel useful?

13. What does her grandmother say movies and false eyelashes have in common?

14. Why were so many carnivores attracted to the tar pits?

15. What does the narrator like about going to the tar pits?

16. What do people working at the tar pits do with everything they dig out of the pits?

17. What does the narrator learn from the tar pits?

18.What does the narrator learn about those animals who "had what it took" for adaptation?