The Cricket in Times Square Chapter 10

1. The animals were celebrating _______________.
a) Tucker finding a fifty cent piece
b) Chester's two month anniversary
c) Harry Cat finding a girl friend
d) Chester getting the proper foods

2. Name one food the animals had at the dinner party.
a) birthday cake
b) Hershey chocolate bar
c) potato chips
d) corn on the cob

3. _____________ was at the party.
a) Mario, Chester, and Tucker
b) Harry and Tucker
c) Mario and Chester
d) Harry, Chester, and Tucker

4. What was really special about the coke?
a) The coke still had carbonation.
b) The coke was served with ice.
c) The coke was served in a birthday cup.
d) The coke had cherry syrup in it.

5. How did Harry Cat sing?
a) well
b) bad

6. How did Chester sing?
a) well
b) bad

7. What bad thing happened at the party?
a) Tucker fell and broke his leg.
b) A fire started.
c) Chester bumped his head.
d) Harry Cat's tail was caught in the door.

8. Chester got help by _________________.
a) chirping
b) setting off the alarm clock
c) turning up the radio
d) jumping on Mr. Smedley, the music teacher

9. What is the main conflict in Chapter 10 and how is it solved?
a) Harry could not sing well, so Chester sang instead.
b) The animals wanted to celebrate, so they saved food for a week for a dinner party.
c) The animals started a fire, and Chester was able to get help be ringing the alarm clock.
d) The Bellinis were hanging out too late at the newsstand, so Mario talked them into going home.

10. Which statement from Chapter 10 expresses an opinion?
a) It was exactly two months since Chester had arrived in New York, and the three animals wanted to celebrate the anniversary.
b) When the soda jerks made a coke I grabbed the ice they spilled, which I then took to the drain pipe.
c) It was well along in August by now, and just the time of the year that crickets all over the world like most.
d) Chester got an ovation from his friends.

11. On the opposite side of the stand the flames were lapping against the wood.

The word lapping most likely means ________________.
a) enveloping something; covering; enclosing or encasing completely
b) getting a lap or more ahead of a competitor in racing, as on an oval track
c) taking in liquid with the tongue; drink up
d) washing or moving in small waves, as in the waves were lapping the shoreline



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