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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Bud is on the Brooklyn Bridge, what does it sound like when a car goes by?
(a) A bucket of nickels.
(b) A pile of piano wires.
(c) A room full of crickets.
(d) A shaken banjo.

2. What does Ellen call her friend Alice when she won't go down an obscure little path with her in the park?
(a) A meany.
(b) A flake.
(c) A witch.
(d) A scarecat.

3. What did Bud's father do to him when he was a kid?
(a) Locked him in the closet.
(b) Revered him.
(c) Beat him.
(d) Sold him into slavery.

4. What happens when Ed and the person who takes him out for a drink part ways?
(a) The guy sticks Ed with the check.
(b) Ed's wife yells at him.
(c) The bartender throws Ed out.
(d) Ed gets into a bar fight.

5. What turns Bill Ingersoll from an atheist to a Methodist?
(a) Seeing a ghost.
(b) A flash of lightning.
(c) Taking absinthe.
(d) Getting hit by a train.

Short Answer Questions

1. Captain McAvoy is in the pilothouse of which tugboat?

2. Jimmy's mother tells him not to eat his ice cream too fast or he will get what?

3. What does Ed do for a living?

4. Why is Mrs. McNeil skeptical that George Baldwin is a lawyer?

5. How much does the lady with the pink cameo say she is going to give Bud for moving a load of coal?

(see the answer key)

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