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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 115-117.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the narrator want to eat when it started raining?
(a) Banana split.
(b) Candy.
(c) Chocolate cake.
(d) Strawberry shake.

2. Why did the narrator's mother want to get a taxi?
(a) It was raining.
(b) She was tired.
(c) She had twisted her ankle.
(d) It was snowing.

3. How did the narrator describe the man's face?
(a) Tan and wrinkled.
(b) Pink and wrinkly.
(c) Gray with fine lines.
(d) Weathered.

4. What type of facial hair did the man have who approached the narrator and her mother?
(a) Heavy stubble.
(b) Beard.
(c) Mustache.
(d) Goatee.

5. What did the narrator's mother want when they could not get a taxi?
(a) Car with a chauffer.
(b) A bus.
(c) Her husband to pick them up.
(d) A limo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the narrator and her mother stand trying to get a taxi?

2. Who did the narrator say could not stand the frosty-nosed stare of her mother's?

3. What did the old man want?

4. What did the man say happened to old people like him?

5. What color hair did the man have who approached the narrator and her mother?

(see the answer key)

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