Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

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Chapter 1

Questions

1. What's the salesman selling?
2. What are the boys doing when the salesman comes up?
3. What's remarkable about the boys and their birthdays?
4. Why does the salesman come?
5. What does the salesman say will happen to Jim if he doesn't put the lightning rod on his roof?

Answers

1. Lightning rods
2. Whittling some wood
3. They are born one minute on either side of midnight on October 31st.
4. To tell the boys that one of their houses will be struck by lightning
5. He'll be dead by morning.