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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through May 12 – November 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Leigh writes to Mr. Henshaw on September 20 with ten questions. Number ten is not really a question. What is this statement?
(a) “Please give me some tips on how to write a book.”
(b) “Please send a photograph.”
(c) “Please tell me how to get an ‘A.’”
(d) “Please include a biographical reference with your reply.”

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

3. In Mr. Henshaw’s response to Leigh that Leigh read aloud to his class, he answered that his real name was what?
(a) “James C. Smarts.”
(b) “Messing A. Round.”
(c) “Will I. Am.”
(d) “William Shakespeare.”

4. Leigh tells Mr. Henshaw in his fifth letter to Mr. Henshaw on December 2 that he wants to grow up to be what?
(a) “A schoolteacher with a yellow school bus.”
(b) “A doctor or a neuroscientist.”
(c) “A famous book writer with a beard like you.”
(d) “A scientist who travels in a van.”

5. Leigh tells Mr. Henshaw in his second letter on December 3 that if Mr. Henshaw responds to his letter Leigh gets to do what?
(a) Take a field trip with the class.
(b) Put the letter on the bulletin board at school.
(c) Print the letter in the school yearbook.
(d) Read the letter out loud to the class.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Leigh says in his November 13 letter to Mr. Henshaw that his teacher is making his class write to authors for what?

4. Leigh closes his September 20 letter to Mr. Henshaw with a limerick: “De Liver De Letter De Sooner De Better De Later De Letter De Madder” what?

5. How does Leigh describe most of the grownups by where he lives in his fifth letter to Mr. Henshaw on December 2?

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