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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through January 12 – February 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Leigh closes his fifth letter to Mr. Henshaw on December 2 with an enclosure, saying that his class is studying what?
(a) Business letters.
(b) Atomic science.
(c) Nonfiction essays.
(d) Resumes.

2. What is the name of Leigh’s school librarian?
(a) Miss Badger.
(b) Miss Neely.
(c) Miss Martinez.
(d) Mr. Fridley.

3. Leigh says in his November 15 letter that the back cover of one of Mr. Henshaw’s books, it states that he lives where?
(a) Seattle.
(b) Nebraska.
(c) California.
(d) Alaska.

4. In his January 15 letter to Mr. Henshaw, Leigh writes that he finished Beggar Bears in how much time?
(a) 2 nights.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 3 nights.

5. Leigh says in his January 30 diary entry that he looked in his book of highway maps and figured out that his dad should be where now?
(a) New York.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Bakersfield.
(d) Los Angeles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Leigh say stands by the garbage cans in the lunchroom to make sure kids don’t throw their retainers away in his diary entry from January 8?

2. How does Leigh address his diary entries for most of the novel?

3. What does Leigh say was stolen from his lunch bag at school in his first diary entry from December 22?

4. In his second diary entry, dated December 23, Leigh writes that he asked his mom if his dad might come to visit for Christmas. What was her response?

5. Where does Leigh say he and his mother ate their dinner in his February 5 diary entry?

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