Chapter 15: A Starved Bird 1. Where is Maria sent to be turned into a “Proper young lady”?

2. Where does Matt decide to go at the beginning of the chapter? What did he find there and who left it for him?

3. What happens when Matt returns to the house?

4. Whom does Matt see at the funeral that looks thirty years younger than the last time he saw them?

5. The priest calls Matt “an unbaptized limb of (what)”? Why?

6. What analogy does Maria use with the priest to defend Matt? (Hint: it involves a person and an animal).