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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through January 12 – February 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Leigh describe most of the grownups by where he lives in his fifth letter to Mr. Henshaw on December 2?
(a) “Real old with cats.”
(b) “Real bad with names.”
(c) “Real funny and wise.”
(d) “Really cranky and bitter.”

2. Leigh concludes his February 5 diary entry by saying “I don’t like to think that Bandit is” what?
(a) “Lost.”
(b) “A traitor.”
(c) “A bum.”
(d) “Wandering alone.”

3. What word from Leigh’s November 13 letter refers to a three-dimensional model?
(a) Reenactment.
(b) Diorama.
(c) Composition.
(d) Diagram.

4. What color is Leigh’s dog in Dear Mr. Henshaw?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Gray.
(c) Red.
(d) Black.

5. In his third diary entry on December 24, Leigh writes that his dad had once remarked that when he was driving he often saw a lone shoe on the highway, so Leigh and his parents spent that Christmas Eve thinking up songs about shoes. What was Leigh’s song?
(a) “A dirty shoe / Makes me so blue / I’m lost at sea / Where shall I be.”
(b) “A lonesome hiker was unluckee / To lose his boot near Truckee / He hitched a ride with one foot dam / Down the road to Angels Camp.”
(c) “I saw a shoe / Wet with dew / Oh Highway 2 / It made me blue / What’ll I do?”
(d) “Driving with a heavy load / I saw a shoe upon the road / Squashed like a toad.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What new word in Leigh’s vocabulary does he use in his December 12 letter to refer to any of various lines or tackles for hoisting a flag?

2. Where was Leigh’s dad traveling when he lost Leigh’s dog?

3. How does Leigh sign his name in his second letter to Mr. Henshaw on December 3?

4. Leigh says in his November 15 letter that the back cover of one of Mr. Henshaw’s books, it states that he lives where?

5. What is the name of Leigh’s sixth grade teacher?

(see the answer key)

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