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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the man who stops for Bud tell him he needs?
(a) Help with a problem.
(b) Food and water.
(c) Someone who can read to him.
(d) Company on a long walk.

2. What does Bud do to the hornet's nest?
(a) Avoids it.
(b) Spills water on it.
(c) Knocks it down.
(d) Smacks it.

3. What does NBC stand for?
(a) Nobody But Calloway.
(b) Nothing Bears Calloway.
(c) No one Likes Classical.
(d) Nothing But Classical.

4. How does Ms. Amos keep Bud in the place where she banished him?
(a) Threatens him.
(b) Ties him up.
(c) Padlocks the door.
(d) Cuffs him to the wall.

5. Which of the following pictures does this novel provide insight into at the beginning?
(a) How it feels to be in an orphange and be picked to leave.
(b) How it feels to lose your mother and be abandonded by your father.
(c) How it feels to lose your best friend due to moving.
(d) How it feels to grow up in a difficult setting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bud go for breakfast?

2. Why is Bud almost too late to catch his train?

3. What is the ride to Grand Rapids full of according to Bud?

4. What does Bud reflect on in relation to conversations with his mother?

5. What does Bud see that upsets him as he approaches the library?

(see the answer key)

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