The Cricket in Times Square Chapter 7

1. What kind of food do the Chinese make?
a) spaghetti and pizza
b) many bean dishes with pintos, navy, and butter beans
c) unusual foods made from bird's nests, sharks' fins, and mice
d) tacos and burritos

2. How did Chester feel about the cricket cage?
a) Chester felt like a prince in a castle.
b) Chester felt nervous to be locked in a cage.
c) Chester thought the cage was the best house in the whole world.
d) Chester felt like he was the emperor of China.

3. What did Tucker want to do with the cage?
a) throw it in the garbage
b) sleep in it
c) stored his "treasures" from the drainpipe inside of it
d) break it

4. Tucker wanted to sleep on _________.
a) marshmallows
b) dollar bills
c) Kleenex
d) silk

5. Tucker used ______ for a pillow.
a) a fifty cent piece
b) a button
c) a spool of thread
d) Mama Bellini's earring

6. Chester slept ____________.
a) in the drainpipe
b) in the matchbox
c) in the cash drawer
d) under the alarm clock

7. Which sequence best describes the order of events in Chapter 7?


1) The animals went to sleep.
2) Tucker went inside the cricket cage.
3) Chester sat inside the cricket cage talking to Tucker Mouse.
4) Chester used dollar bills to cushion the cage and Mama Bellini's earring for a pillow.
5) Tucker asked Chester if he could sleep in the cage.

a) 3, 5, 2, 4, 1
b) 3, 2, 5,1, 4
c) 3, 2, 5, 4, 1
d) 3,4, 5, 2, 1

8. What is the main conflict in Chapter 7 and how is it resolved?
a) Chester felt trapped in the pagoda cage, so he slept in the matchbox instead.
b) Tucker needed covers to sleep on, so he used dollar bills.
c) Harry was bored, so he went to the drain pipe where he could stretch out and go to sleep.
d) The bell kept ringing, so Tucker cut off the fan so it wouldn't blow on the cage.

9. stump

1) a short, stocky person
2) to walk heavily or clumsily
3) to challenge or dare to do something
4) a part of a broken or decayed tooth left in the gum
5) the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off

Which definition describes how the word stump is used in the following sentence?

I'm more used to tree stumps and holes in the ground.

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
e) 5

10. Which statement from Chapter 7 contains a cause-effect relationship?
a) "I'm very fond of Chinese food myself," said Harry Cat.
b) Tucker scrambled through the gate into the cage and pranced all around inside it.
c) It was dark and he couldn't see where he was going.
d) I'm sleeping on money inside a palace.



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