Ham on Rye Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Ham on Rye Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 115 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Knox ask Henry?
(a) If he likes girls
(b) If he is tough
(c) If his parents beat him
(d) If he is mean

2. What does Edna do when Big Henry refuses to choose?
(a) Attacks Big Henry's wife and then leaves
(b) Beats on Henry and then leaves
(c) Takes Big Henry's car and leaves
(d) Beats on Big Henry and the leaves

3. Where does Frank's father's give the boys money to visit?
(a) Air plane graveyard
(b) Air show
(c) Airport
(d) Hanger

4. What would Henry lose when he got through the afternoon fights with the other boys at school?
(a) The need to relieve himself
(b) His teeth
(c) The frustration from living with his father
(d) His homework

5. What does Henry's father do for a living?
(a) Delivers newspapers
(b) Has a milk route
(c) Runs a dairy farm
(d) Nothing, he is unemployed

6. Why do the other players say that Henry should play on the baseball team that plays teams from other schools?
(a) Because Henry beats up a lot of students
(b) Because Henry makes a great catch
(c) Because he hits a home run
(d) Because the others want Henry away from the school

7. Which of the following homophones did Henry's father use in a joke?
(a) Flower and flour
(b) Pee and pea
(c) Carrot and caret
(d) Bear and bare

8. What was odd about his parents when Henry visited his grandfather?
(a) They were always berated by his grandfather.
(b) They would call his grandfather nasty names.
(c) They refused to make eye contact with his grandfather.
(d) They never got out of the car.

9. Why does the principal send a note home to Henry's parents?
(a) Because Henry wants to play on the regular baseball team
(b) Because he never uses the bathroom in school
(c) Because he witnessed David being beaten
(d) Because he gets into a fight with Billy Sherril

10. What sport does Henry imagine that he is great at playing?
(a) Baseball
(b) Basketball
(c) Football
(d) Soccer

11. How did Henry's mother catch his father with Edna?
(a) Watched him sneak into her house when she was running errands
(b) Saw them in his delivery truck
(c) Hid in the trunk of the car
(d) Saw them through a window

12. What does Red use to help win fights with bigger boys?
(a) His teeth
(b) The football
(c) A baseball bat
(d) His fake arm

13. What happens after Big Henry is confronted by his wife and Edna in his own house?
(a) He runs down the street
(b) He argues with his wife
(c) He beats up Henry
(d) He moves out

14. When is Henry first exposed to other children?
(a) As a toddler playing with the neighbor children
(b) Preschool
(c) Kindergarten
(d) When his mother starts babysitting

15. What did Henry find odd about his grammar school teacher?
(a) She couldn't speak English.
(b) She only spoke to the girls in the class.
(c) She had two different colored eyes.
(d) She never went to the bathroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Henry decide he can't run away?

2. What occupation does Henry tell his new teacher that his father has?

3. Where does Big Henry say he will move after he sues the driver that hit Henry?

4. Where does Henry's father drive when the picnic basket was empty one day?

5. Which of the following characters is cross-eyed?

(see the answer keys)

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