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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is a saying that Bud remembers his mother always using?
(a) Life is just a box of chocolates, you never know what you will get.
(b) It's raining cats and dogs.
(c) As one door closes, another one opens.
(d) A stitch in time saves nine.

2. What does Bud reflect on in relation to conversations with his mother?
(a) They never had any real conversations.
(b) They provide him with the rules to live by.
(c) He can barely remember them anymore.
(d) They are all the same.

3. What story does Bud recount for Bugs that Bugs had already heard about?
(a) His story about the librarian moving.
(b) His fight with Todd Amos.
(c) His time in the barn with the hornets.
(d) His Momma's sayings about hope.

4. What does Bud wonder about in regards to his suitcase?
(a) Whether or not Todd found it.
(b) Whether or not the Amos family has opened it.
(c) Whether or not he can get it again.
(d) Whether or not it is safe.

5. What does Bud believe the hornet's nest is that he sees on the ceiling?
(a) Fish heads.
(b) Skull of a cow.
(c) Snake.
(d) Vampire bat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bud think the man who stops and whistles at him might be?

2. How does Bud handle his emotion as he is leaving the orphanage?

3. Where does Bud head when he sets out after leaving the Amos house?

4. Which of the following characters makes it onto the train to Chicago?

5. Where is the stranger on his way to before he stopped to talk to Bud?

(see the answer key)

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