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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through December 1 – January 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Leigh describe most of the grownups by where he lives in his fifth letter to Mr. Henshaw on December 2?
(a) “Really cranky and bitter.”
(b) “Real funny and wise.”
(c) “Real bad with names.”
(d) “Real old with cats.”

2. Leigh says in his November 13 letter to Mr. Henshaw that his teacher is making his class write to authors for what?
(a) The school yearbook.
(b) Book Week.
(c) The school paper.
(d) Author Month.

3. Why does Leigh say he can’t complain to the teacher about someone stealing from his lunch bag in his first diary entry from December 22?
(a) Because “I’d be sent home.”
(b) Because “it isn’t a good idea for a new boy in school to be a snitch.”
(c) Because “the teacher doesn’t like me and wouldn’t believe me.”
(d) Because “my mom would ground me if she found out.”

4. Leigh tells Mr. Henshaw in his fifth letter to Mr. Henshaw on December 2 that he wants to grow up to be what?
(a) “A scientist who travels in a van.”
(b) “A doctor or a neuroscientist.”
(c) “A schoolteacher with a yellow school bus.”
(d) “A famous book writer with a beard like you.”

5. What does Leigh say is on the middle of the California flag in his December 12 letter to Mr. Henshaw?
(a) A star.
(b) A brown bear.
(c) A diamond.
(d) A red-tailed hawk.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his fifth letter to Mr. Henshaw on December 2, Leigh asks why some of the grownups in Mr. Henshaw’s book didn’t do what?

2. Leigh says in his December 4 letter to Mr. Henshaw that maybe when he writes a book he’ll call it what?

3. In his third diary entry on December 24, Leigh writes that his dad had once remarked that when he was driving he often saw a lone shoe on the highway, so Leigh and his parents spent that Christmas Eve thinking up songs about shoes. What was the song Leigh’s dad made up?

4. Leigh says he hates living where in his fifth letter to Mr. Henshaw on December 2?

5. What color is the composition book that Leigh buys to use as a diary?

(see the answer key)

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