Stand Tall
Chapter by Chapter Review Questions
Chapter 1:
What frustrated Tree when he was talking with the secretary at school?
Who did Tree say could fix everything?
How did Tree get his name?
Who is the bully identified in chapter 1?
What are Tree’s two major conflicts?
Chapter 2:
Why does Tree’s mom want to talk about feelings?
Who are Tree’s brothers?
What is the best part about Tree’s week?
Chapter 3:
Who is Mrs. Clitter?
How is Tree helpful to Grandpa?
Why is Grandpa in rehab?
Why does Tree have trouble connecting to his brothers?
Chapter 4:
Why does Tree get frustrated with Coach Glummer?
Who is Mona? How does she help Grandpa?
Chapter 5:
What was Tree’s presentation about in class?
What made Tree’s presentation so memorable?
What did Tree do to make Grandpa’s homecoming from rehab so great?
Chapter 6:
What frustrates Tree about mom’s Christmas plans?
Who is Conan? What does he do to disrespect the big white oak?
Chapter 7:
How did Grandpa respond to his homecoming?
Chapter 8:
Who is Sophie? How does she meet Tree?
How does Grandpa help Tree figure out how he wants to be treated?
Chapter 9:
Why does Tree feel so guilty in the beginning of this chapter?
What is the grenade analogy?
Who is King?
Why does Coach Glummer want the basketball team to dance?
How did Tree feel about the handball game in the basement?
Chapter 10:
What was dance class like?
What do the three brothers discuss during chapter 10? How do they feel?
Grandpa uses analogies for the divorce. What analogy does he mainly use when talking to Tree?
Chapter 11:
Why do Sophie and Tree go to the muffler shop?
What happens there?
How des Sophie help Tree look at his parents’ divorce differently?
Chapter 12:
How did it go for Grandpa being Santa? What happened?
Chapter 13 & 14:
What was it like at Tree’s dad’s house for Christmas?
What was it like at Tree’s mom’s house for Christmas?
Chapter 15:
How does Tree relate to the big white oak at Ripley Memorial Park?
What frustrations is Tree still dealing with? (p97)
What is the change in Bradley?
What event occurs with Mrs. Clitter’s cat that foreshadows a later event for Bradley?
Chapter 16:
What happened during the basketball game that made Tree feel great?
What happened during the game that made him feel awful?
How does Sophie feel about Tree’s parents handling of their divorce?
What is going on with Grandpa’s prosthetic leg?
Chapter 17:
Where does Grandpa visit during this chapter?
Why does Tree feel like he’s in a war?
Why does Tree want to be like his Grandpa so much?
What were some of the items left on graves at the Vietnam War Memorial?
Chapter 18:
What does Sophie get in this chapter?
Why does this make her so happy?
Chapter 19:
What happens to Sophie as a result of her solo?
How does she react?
Who ends up getting sent to the principal’s office?
Chapter 20:
How did dancing the Tango go for Sophie and Tree?
Chapter 21:
How did the dinner go at dad’s house?
Who all showed up? What did they bring?
Why was Sophie coming over in the first place?
What made Tree feel good at the end of this chapter?
Chapter 22:
What happens to Bradley in this chapter?
How does he “escape” the needle?
Chapter 23:
What is ravaging the town?
Chapter 24 & 25:
How does Tree help his grandpa in the flood?
How does Tree help the animals in the flood?
What major emotional hurdle did Tree overcome during the flood?
Who else was a major help to all the animals?
Grandpa compared the flood to war. How did he do this?
Chapter 26:
What did Grandpa do to help the “Homecoming” post flood?
Chapter 27:
What was so amazing about the giant oak during the flood?
How did Trash King use an analogy of trash?
Chapter 28:
What was the disaster at mom’s house?
Chapter 29:
What are Tree and his brothers physically rebuilding?
What are they emotionally rebuilding?
What did Tree do for his brothers?
Chapter 30:
What was the special moment for Tree with his brothers?
What was the change Tree noticed over the past few weeks?
Chapter 31:
Why did Tree march along Grandpa’s side?
What did Grandpa do that raised a wild applause from the crowd?
How did Tree help during the end of the book during the parade (with Sophie’s encouragement)?