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1. What does Moth articulate as the significance of names, in general, in Part I?

In Part I, Moth articulates her feelings about the significance and meaning of names in general when she ruminates that whether they are given or replaced, names stick to a person "like forever suits" (2).

2. What happened to Moth two summers before the start of the novel?

Two summers before the start of the novel, Moth was in a terrible, very serious car accident with her parents and her brother Zachary. Moth was the only survivor of the accident.

3. What does Moth mean when she says she is living "a secondhand life" (5)?

When Moth says she is living a "secondhand life," she means that since the car accident that killed her parents and brother, she has lived in a haze of loss, grief, and sadness unlike her life before the accident.

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