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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens during Bud's first trick?
(a) Nothing immediately.
(b) Todd urinates in bed.
(c) Todd wakes up and gets mad.
(d) Bud slips and falls, spilling water on himself.

2. What does Bud indicate is his most prized possession?
(a) His father's address.
(b) His teeth.
(c) His suitcase.
(d) His blanket.

3. What does Bud have for breakfast?
(a) Eggs.
(b) Porridge.
(c) Oatmeal.
(d) Bacon.

4. What does the family who helps Bud help him to do?
(a) Make friends with the shelter workers.
(b) Get food.
(c) Find his father.
(d) Find a place to sleep.

5. What does Bud dream about often and then worry about really happening?
(a) Losing his best friend.
(b) Losing a tooth.
(c) Moving into another orphanage.
(d) Returning to the same orphanage.

6. What does the new librarian give to Bud other than the library book?
(a) Her lunch.
(b) A picture.
(c) A nickel.
(d) A tablet.

7. What is knowing that Ms. Hill is not there is symbolic of what for Bud?
(a) Life's problems and issues.
(b) The worries of the unknown.
(c) Everyone he likes abandoning him.
(d) Constant change.

8. Where is Bud's suitcase hidden?
(a) Under the dinner table.
(b) At the orphanage.
(c) Under his bed.
(d) In the shed.

9. Where does Bud go for breakfast?
(a) Local elementary school.
(b) Library.
(c) Local shelter.
(d) Local restaurant.

10. What would Billy often brag about to the other kids at the orphanage?
(a) He could beat any of them up.
(b) He was the leader of all of the boys at the orphanage.
(c) He knew who his mother and father were.
(d) He knew how to get away from the orphanage.

11. What does this chapter end with?
(a) Click of padlock.
(b) Jerry's arrival.
(c) Bud's screams.
(d) Mr. Amos whipping Bud.

12. Which of the following is the information Bud knows about his new home?
(a) It is a home with no kids.
(b) It is a home where his friend Jerry will also be going.
(c) It is a home with boys.
(d) It is a home with girls.

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

14. What does Bud hope to do after he escapes from the angry hornets?
(a) Return to the orphanage.
(b) Move back into the house.
(c) Go out on his own.
(d) Hide from the Amos family.

15. Which of the following is a nickname that Bud's mother did not want him to use?
(a) Will.
(b) Willy.
(c) Buddy.
(d) Dub.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old are both Bud and Jerry at this point in the novel?

2. Why does Bud believe Todd was mean and manipulative to him?

3. Which of the following types of issues are present for Bud in the Amos household?

4. What does Bud's mother believe that an unbloomed flower holds?

5. Why is Jerry worried about going to his new home?

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