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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. Who does Leigh say stands by the garbage cans in the lunchroom to make sure kids don’t throw their retainers away in his diary entry from January 8?
(a) Miss Martinez.
(b) Miss Neely.
(c) Miss Bassett.
(d) Mr. Fridley.

2. Where did Leigh live with his parents prior to their divorce?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Montague.
(c) San Jose.
(d) Bakersfield.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Mr. Henshaw’s response to Leigh that Leigh read aloud to his class, he answered that his real name was what?

2. Leigh says in his November 15 letter that he hadn’t realized Mr. Henshaw had moved where, although he could have guessed from Moose on Toast?

3. Leigh closes his fifth letter to Mr. Henshaw on December 2 with an enclosure, saying that his class is studying what?

4. 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?

5. In his second diary entry, dated December 23, Leigh writes that he asked his mom if his dad might come to visit for Christmas. What was her response?

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