Chapters 7-8 -- Pages 71 - 97

1. Beatrice and Roy got to the junkyard by ______________.
a) jogging through the golf course
b) riding Roy's bicycle
c) skateboarding through the muddy streets

2. Roy brought the kid he had seen running ______________.
a) cookies
b) a flashlight
c) sneakers

3. The running boy was ____________________.
a) Beatrice's brother
b) the junkyard watchman
c) David Delinko's son
d) Mother Paula's nephew

4. Officer Delinko thought the incidents with the alligators and spray paint were _______________.
a) just pranks done by a group of local kids
b) each the work of different people; the spray paint by kids and the alligators by adults
c) the work of adults since the alligators could not be handled by youth
d) atypical of most youngsters trying to outdo the other for thrills

5. The running boy was giving his nickname because ________.
a) he ran away from home
b) he talked to animals and they seem to understand what he was saying
c) he could catch mullet with his bare hands

6. Beatrice performed an astounding feat - ___________.
a) whistling while eating a peanut butter cookie
b) lifting the Jo Jo's ice cream truck onto the blocks
c) chomping into the bicycle's rear tire like she was biting into a pizza
d) walking right up to the running boy without being afraid

7. The guy at the gas station asked Roy's father if _____________.
a) Roy rode his bicycle over any broken glass
b) they had a pet monkey
c) the bicycle had run over a barbed wire fence

8. Curly was ________.
a) the supervisor at the construction job who was bald headed
b) a jolly man who was also seen in the Mother Paula's television commercials
c) the chief of the Coconut Cove Public Safety Department
d) a newspaper reporter who investigated the pranks at the construction site for the new Mother Paula's Pancake House

9. Chuck Muckle wanted Curly to ________________ to stop the nonsense that was going on at the construction site.
a) use a string of police guards
b) use attack dogs, preferably Rottweilers,
c) build a tall fence with an alarm system

10. Miss Kimberly Lou Dixon had a limited window of availability to film the Mother Paula's Pancake commercials because _____________.
a) she was going to enter the Miss America contest
b) she and her husband were planning a vacation to Las Cruces, New Mexico
c) she was preparing for her role as queen of the Mutant Grasshoppers

11. Roy handled Dana by ___________________ when Dana tried to rough him up on the bus ride to school.
a) trying to ignore him by reading a comic book
b) punching him in the lip
c) moving to the front of the bus

12. This book is told ________________________.
a) from Beatrice's point of view
b) from the first person point of view of Roy
c) by rotating between different characters' point of view
d) third person point of view



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