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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through December 1 – January 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 the song Leigh’s mom made up?
(a) “I saw a shoe / Wet with dew / Oh Highway 2 / It made me blue / What’ll I do?”
(b) “A dirty shoe / Makes me so blue / I’m lost at sea / Where shall I be.”
(c) “Driving with a heavy load / I saw a shoe upon the road / Squashed like a toad.”
(d) “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.”

2. What is Leigh’s mother studying at the community college?
(a) Finance.
(b) English literature.
(c) Nursing.
(d) Veterinary medicine.

3. Leigh says in his December 4 letter that he wishes his dad still hauled sugar beets for the refinery where?
(a) Spreckels.
(b) San Jose.
(c) Albuquerque.
(d) Los Rios.

4. Leigh tells Mr. Henshaw in his sixth letter, dated November 7, that he is now in what grade?
(a) Seventh grade.
(b) Third grade.
(c) Fifth grade.
(d) Second grade.

5. In Mr. Henshaw’s response to Leigh that Leigh read aloud to his class, he said he didn’t have kids because he doesn’t raise what?
(a) Cats.
(b) Goats.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Pigs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Leigh sign his name in his first letter to Mr. Henshaw on May 12?

2. In his December 12 letter, Leigh writes, “Mr. Fridley said maybe I should come to school a few minutes early every morning to help him with the flags, but please stop” doing what because it makes him nervous?

3. Leigh writes to Mr. Henshaw on November 15 to say he was angry he didn’t receive Mr. Henshaw’s reply before his report was due, but he used information from where to complete it?

4. What is the ninth question from Mr. Henshaw that Leigh answers in his letter from December 1?

5. What does Leigh say is on the middle of the California flag in his December 12 letter to Mr. Henshaw?

(see the answer key)

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