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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bugs do with Bud's suitcase?
(a) Hides it from the other passengers.
(b) Takes care of it for Bud.
(c) Throws it off the train.
(d) Opens it and goes through it.

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

3. To which character does Bud flash back to during this chapter?
(a) Todd Amos.
(b) Deza Malone.
(c) Billy Burns.
(d) Ms. Hill.

4. Which of the following terms describes the character of Todd?
(a) Reserved.
(b) Hesitant.
(c) Manipulative.
(d) Spiteful.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bud learn that he will not be able to see his favorite librarian?

2. In what state did Bud live with his mother when she died?

3. Bud refers to Bugs as his brother in what?

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

5. Which of the following describes how Bud feels about the presence of the police?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one of Bud's mother's sayings that Bud remembers and how does it make Bud feel?

2. In what way does Bud get a quick taste of what it is like to be a part of a family?

3. What realization does Bud come to after he sees the metal bars on the library?

4. How does the reader feel after Bud is attacked by the hornets?

5. What did Bud and Bugs plan to do and how did they agree to be there for each other?

6. What does Bud call the book page dust and what does it help him to do?

7. Write about Bud's list and describe the general information about it and what it provides for Bud.

8. What do the hornets and the edgy teeth seem to be symbolic of?

9. Who is Deza Malone and why is this character important to Bud?

10. What is Bud bothered about in relation to the family that helped him that makes him have trouble being thankful?

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