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Who wrote "Heidi"?	Johanna Spyri, a Swiss author born in Zurich in 1827, who died in 1891.
What country did Johanna Spyri live in?	Switzerland, where she set her stories among the mountains she loved.
Who is Heidi?	The young child, about five years old, who is the main character of the story.
Who is Dete?	Heidi's aunt, who is taking her up the mountain to live with her grandfather.
Where does the story begin?	On a mountain path leading up from the village of Mayenfeld to the Alm mountain.
What is Doerfli?	A hamlet halfway up the mountain where Dete grew up and where villagers greet her.
Who is Barbel?	A stout, good-natured woman from Doerfli who joins Dete and asks about Heidi and Alm-Uncle.
Who is Alm-Uncle?	Heidi's grandfather, a solitary, gruff old man who lives alone on the Alm mountain.
Why is Alm-Uncle feared or avoided by villagers?	He is unfriendly, never goes to church, has bushy eyebrows and a big beard, and rumors say he once killed a man in Naples.
What happened to Alm-Uncle's property and family?	He drank and gambled away his large farm, causing his parents to die of sorrow; he later lived alone with his son Tobias.
Who was Tobias?	Alm-Uncle's son, who became a carpenter, married Adelaide, and died in an accident two years after marrying.
Who was Adelaide?	Heidi's mother and Dete's sister, who died of fever/grief shortly after her husband Tobias's death.
Why did Alm-Uncle move to the Alm mountain?	After the deaths of his son and daughter-in-law, villagers blamed him, so he became bitter and moved away to live alone.
Who is Peter?	An eleven-year-old goatherd boy who leads goats up the mountain each day to graze.
Who is Peter's mother?	Brigitta, who lives with Peter and his blind grandmother in a small hut on the mountain.
Who is "Grandmother" in the story?	Peter's blind grandmother, known to everyone in the area simply as "Grandmother."
Where is Dete taking Heidi, and why?	Dete is taking Heidi to live with her grandfather, Alm-Uncle, because Dete has found a good job in Frankfurt and can no longer care for her.
How is Heidi dressed at the start of the story?	She wears two dresses, a thick red woolen shawl, and heavy nailed mountain-shoes, despite the hot June weather.

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