The Emerald Atlas: Prologue

Here are some questions about the Prologue of the book. The answers will follow.
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1. The book begins on what holiday night?
2. How old is Kate?
3. Vocabulary: What does the highlighted word mean? "Then the man said something Kate couldn't hear, and it was as if a heavy curtain was drawn around her mind, obliterating the man in the doorway, the light, her mother, everything?"
4. Who was it that the tall man had told him that he had seen and was now dead?
5. Sister Agatha tells the tall man that the children will need a new surname.  What's a surname?
6. What surname did the tall man give the children?

Answers:

1. Christmas Eve
2. 4 years old
3. erasing
4. Devon McClay
5. last name
6. P