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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 is Leigh’s mother’s name?
(a) Angie Botts.
(b) Sarah Botts.
(c) Samantha Botts.
(d) Bonnie Botts.

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

3. 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.

4. What is the name of the school custodian that Leigh likes?
(a) Mr. Neely.
(b) Mr. Pitts.
(c) Mr. Fridley.
(d) Mr. Henshaw.

5. What is described by Leigh in his December 3 letter as “the first thick book with chapters that I have read”?
(a) Ten Dogs and Ten Owners.
(b) Run, Spot, Run!
(c) Ways to Amuse a Dog.
(d) A Dog Named Sam.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where does Leigh say his dad phoned him from in Oregon in his January 8 diary entry?

4. Leigh says in his December 4 letter to Mr. Henshaw, “When you answered my questions, you said the way to get to be an author was to” what?

5. In his third letter to Mr. Henshaw, dated November 13, Leigh says he’s now in what grade?

(see the answer key)

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