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1. Describe Old Central School. Why was it built?

Old Central School was built in Elm Haven, Illinois as part of a project to provide large regional schools for the rural areas of the state. From the project, only Old Central was built. The school is too large for the needs of the local community, and it was decided by the mayor that the school would be closed in June of 1960.

2. What does Tubby Cook do in the basement lavatory in Chapter 2?

In Chapter , Tubby Cook is in the basement lavatory kicking at a hole in the wall that the schools' boys had started. The wall gives away revealing a passage which Tubby enters, following a distant light.

3. What do the students suddenly hear at the school, and how does Principal Roon explain the sound?

Shortly after Tubby Cook starts to follow a passage hidden in the school wall, the students sitting in class suddenly hear screaming which seems to be coming from all around them. Principal Roon comes into Dale's class and explains that the sound was just the janitor fixing the boiler.

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