1. What are the popular stories known as "urban legends"? How do these stories change over time and in different circumstances? If the urban legend of "The Hook" becomes "The Teenage Worms and the Insane Trout Fisherman," what changes would be rung on other urban legends as told by Larson's worm family?

2. How could Lumberjack Bob have benefited from a better education? What sort of education could he have sought?

What job opportunities would he have had? Would his life have been improved even if he had still been employed in the logging industry? Would learning the history and technology of his craft make Bob a better lumberjack? Is there any reason to encourage laborers to see an education in the arts and sciences?

3. Naturalized gardens are a popular trend.

Discuss the relative merits of xeriscaping and sowing meadow flowers compared with maintaining a conventional...