The Jumbies

Chapters 1-8

Reading Check

1. All Hallow’s Eve (Chapter 2)

2. The fertile soil (Chapter 4)

Short Answer

1. The narrator says that the yellow eyes of a jumbie are watching Corinne and her father and that once they are out of sight the jumbie appears from the woods. (Chapter 1)

2. Corinne’s mother, Nicole, is the jumbie’s sister. This means that Nicole was also a jumbie, although Corinne does not know it. (Chapter 3)

3. The witch says that doing this would upset the natural balance of things by giving the jumbie an advantage over humans. (Chapter 5)

Chapters 9-16

Reading Check

1. The white witch (Chapter 11)

2. Get rid of all of the island’s humans (Chapter 15)

Short Answer

1. The female jumbie has turned herself invisible and slipped into the river, intending to pull the children under the water. (Chapters 9-10)

2. Severine cooked this food, and Corinne can tell that there is something suspicious about it. She does not want anyone to eat this food. (Chapter 13)

3. The frog that Corinne rescued from the well now rescues Corinne by luring the douens away while Corinne escapes. (Chapter 16)

Chapters 17-24

Reading Check

1. Her necklace (Chapter 19)

2. Juice from an orange (Chapter 22)

Short Answer

1. She clouds his mind so that he believes there is a terrible storm outside. (Chapter 18)

2. Because she realizes that an ordinary child could not have grown the orange, the white witch begins to piece together the truth about Nicole and her daughter Corinne. (Chapter 20)

3. Severine realizes that the stone in the necklace holds great power, but she does not know how to use it yet, so she hides the necklace where Corinne will not find it. (Chapter 23)

Chapters 25-32

Reading Check

1. She is part human and part jumbie. (Chapter 27)

2. Into the sea (Chapter 30)

Short Answer

1. She reminds him that everything has a weakness—for instance, most jumbies cannot come outside during the day. (Chapter 26)

2. He plans to use this disguise to distract the villagers so that Corinne can slip away by herself to row out and retrieve her necklace. (Chapters 28-29)

3. Dru’s mother wants her to stay inside because of the danger from the jumbies, but Dru intends to help Corinne by making sure that the jumbies are not aware of Corinne’s movements as she climbs the cliff. (Chapters 31-32)

Chapters 33-40

Reading Check

1. She will set a fire. (Chapter 34)

2. Real douens (Chapter 39)

Short Answer

1. She appeals to her grandfather for help, and the wind changes direction. (Chapter 36)

2. The narrative describes the image of a fly trapped in a spider’s web. (Chapter 37)

3. Corinne chooses to risk her life in order to make a dangerous jump to the clifftop so that she can get the pendant and try to use its power to save her father and her community. (Chapter 40)

Chapters 41-44

Reading Check

1. They whistle a song. (Chapter 42)

2. An orange seed (Chapter 43)

Short Answer

1. By chance, the small fire Dru was able to start catches the lagahoo’s fur on fire and the lagahoo falls onto the nettles, freeing Dru. Then, as she runs from the forest, unaware that her own hair has also caught fire, she is saved when the villagers dump water on her. (Chapter 41)

2. Hugo scoops both boys up and carries them as he runs, seemingly unaffected by their weight. (Chapter 42)

3. She believes that the villagers need to learn to share the island peacefully with the jumbies, and she grows the wall to create a barrier between the villagers’ world and the forest where the jumbies live. (Chapter 44)