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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Kim and Scott start doing immediately when Bud wakes up and they are introduced?
(a) Asking him questions.
(b) Showing him around.
(c) Watching him without talking.
(d) Talking to him about Lefty.

2. What does Lefty mock about Bud?
(a) His suitcase.
(b) His accent.
(c) His clothes.
(d) His sleeping.

3. What does the band do about Bud's comment that his father is the grumpiest guy in the group?
(a) Correct him.
(b) Argue about it.
(c) Discuss it amongs themselves.
(d) Let it lie.

4. How does Lefty refer to Bud?
(a) His grandkid.
(b) Buddy the man.
(c) His peanut head friend.
(d) Suitcase boy.

5. Which of the following band members becomes Bud's favorite because he stands up for Bud's feelings?
(a) Doug.
(b) Jimmy.
(c) Roy.
(d) Eddie.

6. What does Bud do in order to escape the supposed vampire?
(a) Puts the car in drive.
(b) Runs under the car and refuse to come out.
(c) Hides in the car and lock all of the doors.
(d) Runs down the road.

7. How are Kim and Scott introduced to Bud when he wakes up?
(a) As his new best friends.
(b) As other orphans.
(c) As his new family.
(d) As the grandkids.

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

9. 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) Play music for him.
(b) Tell him a story about his father.
(c) Take him to a dance.
(d) Feed him at a restaurant.

10. What is Bud's new nickname based on?
(a) His need to find a father.
(b) His learning of the recorder.
(c) His new suitcase.
(d) His knack for oversleeping.

11. How does the man who Bud accepts a ride with introduce himself?
(a) Peanut Head.
(b) Mr. Calloway.
(c) Lefty Lewis.
(d) Scott Lewis.

12. How is it revealed that Bud and Mr. Calloway are related?
(a) Grandson and grandfather.
(b) Nephew and uncle.
(c) Son and father.
(d) They are not related at all.

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

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

15. Which of the following band members does not seem to have much of a sense of humor?
(a) Herman.
(b) Chug.
(c) Doug.
(d) Jimmy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bud think the strange man may be?

3. What emotional event happens to Bud during this chapter?

4. What does Bud feel that he has to continue to work on in this chapter?

5. What does the man who stops for Bud tell him he needs?

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