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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through March 17 – March 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is the beat-up lunchbox that Leigh buys to take to school?
(a) Blue.
(b) Black.
(c) Green.
(d) Red.

2. What does Leigh say his dad wrote a note to him on in his February 9 diary entry?
(a) Fancy stationery.
(b) A napkin.
(c) The back of a bill.
(d) A scrap of newspaper.

3. What does Leigh tell his dad on the phone that his mom is doing when he calls on March 17?
(a) Going on a date.
(b) Talking with her friends.
(c) Studying for a final.
(d) Washing her hair.

4. Leigh writes on March 26 that his prose piece won an honorable mention in the Young Writers’ Yearbook. What is the name of Leigh’s submission?
(a) “Ten Ways to Amuse a Dog.”
(b) “A Day on Dad’s Rig.”
(c) “The Great Lunch Bag Mystery.”
(d) “The Ten-Foot Wax Man.”

5. What does Leigh describe writing about sitting on the telephone wires in his prose submission for the Young Writers’ Yearbook in his March 20 diary entry?
(a) Hawks.
(b) Pigeons.
(c) Eagles.
(d) Magpies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leigh say about Barry’s sandwiches in his March 5 diary entry?

2. In his third diary entry on December 24, Leigh writes that his dad had once remarked that when he was driving he often saw a lone shoe on the highway, so Leigh and his parents spent that Christmas Eve thinking up songs about shoes. What was the song Leigh’s dad made up?

3. On March 17, Leigh writes in his diary that his dad called and Leigh asked, “Have you found another dog to take Bandit's place?” Leigh says that what he really meant was what?

4. Where does Leigh say he and his mother ate their dinner in his February 5 diary entry?

5. Leigh says in his first letter to Mr. Henshaw that his teacher read Mr. Henshaw’s book about what on May 12?

(see the answer key)

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