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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Popper do with his first check?
(a) Pays some bills.
(b) Buys a car.
(c) Gets luggage for the penguins.
(d) Creates a new backdrop.

2. What makes the audience laugh the most during the penguins' first performance?
(a) The mistakes.
(b) The sliding down the ladders.
(c) The music.
(d) The marching.

3. Why does the veterinarian have little hope of helping Captain Cook?
(a) All of these.
(b) He has never treated a penguin before.
(c) He can tell the bird is sick.
(d) He knows it is not right to keep a bird like that.

4. How does Mr. Popper learn about Mr. Greenbaum coming to town?
(a) He hears him on the radio.
(b) He learns from a friend.
(c) He reads about it in the paper.
(d) He sees it on a billboard.

5. How does the audience feel about the penguins' first performance?
(a) They don't like it.
(b) They love it.
(c) They think it is too short.
(d) They are confused by it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Popper make for dinner every night?

2. Why do passengers on a bus complain about the penguins?

3. What does Mr. Popper want from Mr. Greenbaum?

4. What does Mr. Popper call the new home for the penguins with the freezing plant?

5. Why is Mr. Popper unable to sleep the night of the broadcast?

(see the answer key)

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