Chapters 7-8 -- Pages 71 - 97
Quiz
Beatrice and Roy got to the junkyard by ______________.
- jogging through the golf course
- riding Roy's bicycle
- skateboarding through the muddy streets
Roy brought the kid he had seen running ______________.
- cookies
- a flashlight
- sneakers
The running boy was ____________________.
- Beatrice's brother
- the junkyard watchman
- David Delinko's son
- Mother Paula's nephew
Officer Delinko thought the incidents with the alligators and spray paint were _______________.
- just pranks done by a group of local kids
- each the work of different people; the spray paint by kids and the alligators by adults
- the work of adults since the alligators could not be handled by youth
- atypical of most youngsters trying to outdo the other for thrills
The running boy was giving his nickname because ________.
- he ran away from home
- he talked to animals and they seem to understand what he was saying
- he could catch mullet with his bare hands
Beatrice performed an astounding feat - ___________.
- whistling while eating a peanut butter cookie
- lifting the Jo Jo's ice cream truck onto the blocks
- chomping into the bicycle's rear tire like she was biting into a pizza
- walking right up to the running boy without being afraid
The guy at the gas station asked Roy's father if _____________.
- Roy rode his bicycle over any broken glass
- they had a pet monkey
- the bicycle had run over a barbed wire fence
Curly was ________.
- the supervisor at the construction job who was bald headed
- a jolly man who was also seen in the Mother Paula's television commercials
- the chief of the Coconut Cove Public Safety Department
- a newspaper reporter who investigated the pranks at the construction site for the new Mother Paula's Pancake House
Chuck Muckle wanted Curly to ________________ to stop the nonsense that was going on at the construction site.
- use a string of police guards
- use attack dogs, preferably Rottweilers,
- build a tall fence with an alarm system
Miss Kimberly Lou Dixon had a limited window of availability to film the Mother Paula's Pancake commercials because _____________.
- she was going to enter the Miss America contest
- she and her husband were planning a vacation to Las Cruces, New Mexico
- she was preparing for her role as queen of the Mutant Grasshoppers
Roy handled Dana by ___________________ when Dana tried to rough him up on the bus ride to school.
- trying to ignore him by reading a comic book
- punching him in the lip
- moving to the front of the bus
This book is told ________________________.
- from Beatrice's point of view
- from the first person point of view of Roy
- by rotating between different characters point of view
- third person point of view