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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bud learn that he will not be able to see his favorite librarian?
(a) He sees her and she tells him that she is leaving.
(b) Another kind librarian tells him.
(c) He reads about it in the paper.
(d) He overhears two patrons talking about it.

2. Which of the following is an accurate description of how Bud feels at the thought of being on his own?
(a) Anxious.
(b) Excited.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Relieved.

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

4. Who is Bud trying to find as he sets out after leaving the Amos house?
(a) His mother's grave.
(b) His father.
(c) His best friend, Jerry.
(d) A new foster family.

5. How old are both Bud and Jerry at this point in the novel?
(a) .4.
(b) 7.
(c) 6.
(d) 5.

6. Which of the following can be said to be true about the influence Bud's mother had on him?
(a) She gave him an inner confidence.
(b) She gave him a nice nickname.
(c) She gave him the belief that he is nothing.
(d) She is the reason Bud cannot find happiness.

7. What did Todd do to Bud with a pencil?
(a) Pushed it into his toe.
(b) Shoved it up his nose.
(c) Threw it like it was a spear.
(d) Stabbed him in the arm.

8. What does Bud sense in the family members with whom he is sharing breakfast?
(a) Anger.
(b) Surprise.
(c) Despair.
(d) Frustration.

9. How many pictures of his mother does Bud have?
(a) 0.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

10. What is a cardboard jungle another name for?
(a) A shelter.
(b) A jungle gym.
(c) An orphanage.
(d) A gathering of homeless people.

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

12. What was the last straw for Bud which helped him decide that he had to leave the Amos household?
(a) Being locked in the barn.
(b) The Amos family going through his suitcase.
(c) Todd's constant physical abuse.
(d) The sight of the gun lying in an open area.

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

14. Where was Bud's suitcase when he got out of the barn and escaped from the hornets?
(a) Where he left it.
(b) Completely missing.
(c) Under his bed.
(d) In Todd's bedroom.

15. Which of the following describes how Bud feels about the presence of the police?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Surprised.
(c) Daunted.
(d) Unimpressed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What hang on the barn's door?

2. Why is it surprising that Bud is able to show such confidence about himself?

3. What does Bud believe the hornet's nest is that he sees on the ceiling?

4. What happens when Bud smacks the hornet's nest?

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

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