The Cricket in Times Square Chapter 14

1. What time of year was it?
a) Summer
b) Winter
c) Spring
d) Fall

2. Chester wanted to go __________________.
a) to the theater
b) home
c) to China Town
d) to Mario's house

3. When Chester spoke of going home, Tucker and Harry felt _______________.
a) that Chester should be happy
b) that they would do anything to make him stay
c) they wanted him to go

4. What was the one worry Chester had about leaving?
a) Chester would miss everyone.
b) Chester might get lost on his trip home.
c) Chester could not make such a long journey by himself.
d) The Bellinis needed the money Chester was making them.

5. What day was the farewell performance?
a) Tuesday
b) Wednesday
c) Friday
d) Saturday

6. What was the last concert like?
a) exceptional
b) just so so
c) terrible

7. How many people came to the concert?
a) many
b) a few

8. Harry followed him, ambling silently along, as always.

Which word would be the best synonym for ambling?
a) hurrying
b) rushing
c) walking
d) speeding

9. Which question does Chapter 14 answer?
a) Does Chester safely reach his home in Connecticut?
b) How does Mario react to Chester leaving?
c) How did the people of New York City react to Chester's final concert?
d) How is the Bellini's business after Chester retires?

10. Traffic came to a standstill. The buses, the cars, men and women walking-everything stopped. And what was strangest of all, no one minded. Just this once, in the very heart of the busiest of cities, everyone was perfectly content not to move and hardly to breathe.

This passage implies ________.
a) everyone was enjoying Chester's concert
b) the electricity went out and no one could see where they were going
c) people were upset by the crowd of people
d) the Bellinis were getting rich from Chester's concerts

11. Which statement from Chapter 14 contains an opinion?
a) I thought your tempo was off tonight in the "Stars and Stripes Forever".
b) Hello, Harry-Hello, Chester.
c) Tucker twisted the dial.
d) Tucker Mouse scratched his left ear.

12. Time Square was as still as a meadow at evening, with the sun streaming in on the people there and the wind moving among them as if they were only tall blades of grass.

This sentence contains which literary technique?


a) metaphor
b) simile
c) rhyme
d) repetition



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1. (d)
2. (b)
3. (a)
4. (d)
5. (c)
6. (a)
7. (a)
8. (c)
9. (c)
10. (a)
11. (a)
12. (b)