1. What was the "best" name Heat Moon found in the atlas?

2. What system does he use to find good food?

3. Who was eating in the City Cafe in Gainesboro? What kinds of people were not there?

4. What does a Missourian get used to?

5. Why does Heat Moon prefer to travel alone?

6. What kind of directions does Heat Moon get to Nameless?

7. Why did the man from Detroit want to buy the sign? Why didn't the owner sell it?

8. What has caused the failure of Madison Wheeler's business?

9. What doesn't Wheeler like about factory work? Why does he continue to farm?

10. What does Heat Moon wonder?

11. How did Nameless get its name?

12. What did the store provide in the past?

13.What else has gone the way of Wheeler's and Watts's businesses? What does he think is the reason for this loss?

14. For what does he say he has come on this long journey?

15. What does Miss Ginny record?

16. What advice does Watts offer as he is taking Heat Moon to the cellar?