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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Bud and Lefty meet up with Mr. Calloway?
(a) Cabin.
(b) Restaurant.
(c) Bank.
(d) Hospital.

2. What does Bud begin to realize about people?
(a) Most people are kind and good.
(b) Bud realizes that it is what is on the inside that counts not the outside.
(c) They will generally accept strangers readily.
(d) People are hesitant and doubtful.

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

4. What instrument is Bud offered on which he can practice his music skills?
(a) Trumpet.
(b) Sax.
(c) Flute.
(d) Recorder.

5. Which of the following best describes how Bud feels about Miss Thomas?
(a) Scornful.
(b) Dislikes.
(c) Enamored.
(d) Respectful.

6. What does Bud think the man who stops and whistles at him might be?
(a) Truant officer.
(b) Orphanage director.
(c) Policeman.
(d) Soldier.

7. What does Mr. Calloway think Bud is?
(a) An orphan.
(b) A liar.
(c) A spy.
(d) A thief.

8. What does Bud find himself daydreaming about in this chapter?
(a) Staying with the band permanently.
(b) What would happen if Miss Thomas adopted him.
(c) What his mother would think.
(d) Where he will live when the band travels.

9. Which instrument is Bud given tips on how to play by one of the band members?
(a) Guitar.
(b) Trombone.
(c) Saxophone.
(d) Piano.

10. How does the stranger react to Bud being in the car without him?
(a) Stunned.
(b) Puzzled.
(c) Angered.
(d) Disgusted.

11. What makes it difficult for Bud to talk with Mr. Calloway?
(a) Bud's nerves.
(b) Calloway's ill temperament.
(c) Calloway's rocks.
(d) The other band members interrupting.

12. What book does Bud imagine himself a part of?
(a) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
(b) The Secret Garden.
(c) Moby Dick.
(d) Journey to the Center of the Earth.

13. Who is Miss Thomas?
(a) Assumed girlfriend of Mr. Calloway.
(b) Waitress at the restaurant.
(c) Bud's mother's maiden name.
(d) Lead guitarist of the band.

14. How did Bud spend time entertaining himself?
(a) Jumping in and out of the city of Flint.
(b) Looking at the books on the depression.
(c) Waiting in line for food.
(d) Trying to find cardboard to use as his home.

15. What do the band members promise to do for Bud while they figure out what is going on with the story about his father?
(a) Feed him at a restaurant.
(b) Take him to a dance.
(c) Tell him a story about his father.
(d) Play music for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bud feel about the gift that Eddie offers him?

2. Where did Bud hear the book that Bud imagines himself a part of?

3. What does the band do about Bud's comment that his father is the grumpiest guy in the group?

4. Which of the following band members comforts Bud during the emotional event that happens to Bud during this chapter?

5. How is it revealed that Bud and Mr. Calloway are related?

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