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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through January 12 – February 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is the composition book that Leigh buys to use as a diary?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Blue.
(c) Red.
(d) Green.

2. Leigh says in his February 5 diary entry that his mom told him growing up she’d look at the lights of Bakersfield and it seemed like where?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) New York or Paris.
(c) Seattle or Canada.
(d) London or L.A.

3. Where is the story Beggar Bears set?
(a) Yellowstone National Park.
(b) Yosemite National Park.
(c) Hot Springs National Park.
(d) Glacier National Park.

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

5. What advice does Leigh say his dad gave him about the person stealing his lunch in his diary entry from February 4?
(a) “Let your mom know.”
(b) “Set a burglar alarm in your lunchbox.”
(c) “Find him and punch him in the nose.”
(d) “Tell the teacher and see what she’ll do.”

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Leigh describe overhearing the boy’s voice saying when he was on the phone with his dad in his diary entry from February 4?

4. Leigh says in his January 30 diary entry that he looked in his book of highway maps and figured out that his dad should be where now?

5. What surprised Leigh about the book Beggar Bears, according to his letter on January 15?

(see the answer key)

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