What was Harry Spears' profession?
What were the weather conditions in the Prologue?
What was in Harry Spears' hand?
What was the name of Harry Spears' secretary?
What was in the secretary's car?
At the beginning of the story, where did Tim MacCulfsky
live?
What odd nervous habit did Tim have?
How old is Tim?
How did Tim's parents die?
What did Tim find in the attic?
Why were there no pictures of Tim before the age of four?
What caught Tim's eye at the beginning of the second day
of his trip?
Describe Tim's car.
Where was the hitchhiker headed?
What wouldn't Tim let the hitchhiker do in his car?
What did the hitchhiker refuse to do in Tim's car?
Where was Rhonda Ghent from?
What was Rhonda planning to do once she reached her
destination?
What color were Rhonda's eyes?
What couldn't Tim find the next morning in his motel room?
What did Tim think happened to it?
What did Tim promise to do if it was on the car seat like
Rhonda said it was?
What did Rhonda begin calling Tim, which he didn't like?
Where did Tim go after discovering that Harry Spears'
office was for sale?
Where did Tim go to discover what had happened to Harry
Spears?
What was the name of the campground where Tim decided to
stay in Cleermantown, NY?
What did Rhonda do that made Tim worry about catching the
woods on fire?
Who did Rhonda say that Tim cooked like? And why?
Was Rhonda tall and slender, like a model?
How many brothers and sisters did Rhonda have? And what
were their names?
What is a gloaming?
How old was Rhonda? And why did her age upset Tim?
Explain how Tim knew the security system code at Harry
Spears' office.
Did Tim find the information he needed at Harry Spears'
office?
Why did Rhonda run away from Tim the morning he talked to
the police detective?
Why did Tim try to find Rhonda?
Did Tim really believe he'd find her?
What does "plight" mean?
What did Tim find when he tried to straighten up Rhonda's
mess inside the tent?
Was Rhonda accustomed to doing chores?
What did Detective Weaver call Tim, which Tim didn't like?
Was Margaret Hughes at home when Tim drove to her house?
Who was Clarence Drib?
Who was Almighty?
What two items did Rhonda try to buy at the department
store that caused the checkout clerk to pause?
What reason did Rhonda give for having the sleeping pills
and the diet pills?
What reason did Rhonda give for leaving home?
What was the real reason Tim didn't want to take Rhonda to
Kentucky with him?
What do you think of Tim's philosophy on love? How does it
differ from Rhonda's?
What did Rhonda do the next morning after their long talk
in the tent?
According to his calculations with the road atlas, how
many days would it take Tim to drive from New York to Kentucky?
What was Elizabeth Spears using to hide her identity?
For what reason does Rhonda say she smokes?
What routine did Tim acquire as a result of his
confrontation with Detective Weaver's men?
Did Rhonda know how to cook the first time she made a meal
for Tim? How did it turn out?
What gift did Rhonda offer to Tim one night before they
reached Kentucky?
What did Rhonda sometimes do for her dad that she now did
for Tim every night?
When Rhonda asked for the scissors, what did she want them
for?
What did Tim suggest doing instead? And how did he learn
it?
Whom did Rhonda talk to the first time she called home?
Why doesn't Rhonda help her mom with the housework at
home?
What does Tim use to wake up every morning?
Where does Tim keep things during the night for
safekeeping?
What did the metal file box contain?
Did Tim find Edith Sanders?
Where did Tim and Rhonda spend the night in Greenhills,
Kentucky?
What relationship were Tim and Rhonda mistakenly placed in
while in Kentucky?
What was the name of the girl with whom Tim struck up a
conversation?
What had happened to Clarence Drib?
What had happened to Margaret Hughes?
What was the first thing that happened to Tim and Rhonda
on the road to Arkansas?
What happened next?
What scared Rhonda the first morning they were in
Arkansas?
What did Tim do about it?
What did Rhonda refuse to do after the snake incident?
Was Tim successful in arranging an interview with
Elizabeth Spears?
What did Elizabeth Spears want from Tim in return for
telling him about his birth parents?
What did Rhonda do to win Elizabeth Spears' confidence?
What did Tim purchase for Rhonda at the department store
in Hapley, Arkansas?
What happened during the night when Rhonda was sleeping in
the car?
Who had successfully distracted Rhonda from thinking about
snakes and stalkers by inviting her to go swimming?
Where did Tim and Rhonda meet Elizabeth Spears?
What nervous habit did Elizabeth Spears have in common
with Rhonda?
In what way was Tim's past connected to the evil deeds of
Almighty?
What happened to Elizabeth Spears at the end of the
meeting?
Who were Mr. and Mrs. Larson?
What did Mr. Larson show to Tim after dinner?
What was the last name of Tim's birth parents?
What did Tim decide to do immediately after the Larson's
left on Sunday morning?
Why was Rhonda having a hard time?
Who removed Tim's stitches?
What did Tim secretly buy at the yard sale?
What caught Rhonda's attention right away?
Why was Tim feeling discouraged after they returned to New
York?
Why did Tim think he was approaching the wrong campsite?
Where did Tim and Rhonda go that first evening back in
Cleermantown?
What caught Tim's attention when the girl he met wrote her
name and address?
What item of physical evidence finally convinced her?
How did Rhonda suggest they break the news to his mother?
What did Rhonda clutch in her arms when Tim left her?