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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. What does Leigh say his teacher has said there should be when a different person speaks in his December 12 letter?
(a) A dash and ellipses.
(b) A question mark.
(c) A new paragraph.
(d) A period.

2. Leigh remarks in his letter on December 21 that he received Mr. Henshaw’s postcard with a picture of what on it?
(a) Eagles.
(b) Wolves.
(c) Castles.
(d) Bears.

3. 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) “Driving with a heavy load / I saw a shoe upon the road / Squashed like a toad.”
(b) “I saw a shoe / Wet with dew / Oh Highway 2 / It made me blue / What’ll I do?”
(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.”

4. 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.

5. How are Leigh’s diary entries differentiated from his letters to Mr. Henshaw in the novel?
(a) He writes the day of the week as well as the date on his letters.
(b) He addresses his diary entries “Dear Diary” and his letters “Dear Mr. Henshaw.”
(c) He writes the day of the week as well as the date on the diary entries.
(d) He signs his diary entries from “Leigh” and his letters from “Leigh Botts.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Leigh closes his November 16 letter with a postscript that says, “If my Dad was here, he would tell you to” do what?

2. What does Leigh say he noticed about the California flag when the custodian raised it that day in his December 12 letter?

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

4. 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?

5. Leigh says he hates living where in his fifth letter to Mr. Henshaw on December 2?

(see the answer key)

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