1. What position does Schroeder usually play on the baseball team?
2a. Schroeder once promised to kiss Lucy if she…what?
2b. Has Schroeder ever actually kissed Lucy? If so, when?
3. Describe a time that Schroeder’s piano was lost or
destroyed.
4. Schroeder once tried to take up a collection for a Beethoven memorial.
What was the response of (a) Lucy, (b) Violet, (c) Beethoven?
5. Schroeder once quit baseball to concentrate on the piano. What
repercussions did this have?
6a. What was Schroeder’s reaction the first time he encountered a real
piano?
6b. What is Schroeder’s explanation of how he can play such great pieces
on a toy piano whose keys are just painted on?
7. What was the context of the following quotations?
(a) You could have accomplished the same thing with an autographed
baseball.
(b) 10, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000,
000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000,
000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000.
(c) It’s all right…I can still play.
(d) Nice catch, “dear-heart”!