1: In Louis Sachar’s Holes, why does Stanley get to keep the suitcase when the Warden tries to take it?
a. Stanley found it, so it’s rightfully his.
b. The suitcase bears the name “Stanley Yelnats” on it, so Stanley can keep it.
c. Because Zero hides the suitcase under the old boat with “Mary Lou” on the side.
d. Stanley’s lawyer and the Texas Attorney General defend him and keep the Warden from getting the suitcase.
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2: In Out of the Dust, by Karen Hesse, who said the following: “I am so filled with bitterness, it comes from the dust . . . .”
a. Billie Jo Kelby
b. Polly Kelby [Pol]
c. Bayard Kelby
d. Maddog Craddock
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3: In The View from Saturday, Mrs. Olinski made the observation about _____ that they “seemed to communicate with a secret stealth language that slipped beneath thought.”
a. The Academic Bowl team
b. “The Souls”
c. Nadia, Noah, Julian, and Ethan
d. Handicapped people
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4: In The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman, what happens when Beetle renames herself “Alyce?”
a. She receives compliments and is treated with respect.
b. She learns to read.
c. She thinks that someone named “Alyce” could be loved.
d. She aspires to be the Midwife’s apprentice.
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5: Who does their job “with energy and some skill, but without care, compassion, or joy”, in The Midwife’s Apprentice?
a. Alyce (a.k.a. Brat and Beetle)
b. Jennet
c. Jane Sharp (the Midwife)
d. Will Russet
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6: In Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons, why do Gram and Gramps take Sal on a road trip to Lewiston, Idaho?
a. Because Sal’s father, John, is too busy working at his new job and spending time with Margaret Cadaver.
b. Because Gram knows she’s going to die and wants to take a road trip with her granddaughter before her death.
c. So Sal can see her mother’s grave.
d. It gives Sal the opportunity to “walk in [her] mother’s moccasins.”
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7: In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, generations ago the people of the community chose
a. the Committee of Elders
b. to live in family dwellings
c. Sameness
d. “The Giver” to be the Receiver of Memory
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8: In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, who said that love: “is a very generalized word, so meaningless that it’s become obsolete.”
a. Lily
b. Mother
c. “The Giver”
d. Father
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9: How do Cletus, Summer, and Uncle Ob say goodbye to Aunt May in Missing May?
a. They take a trip to see Reverend Young.
b. They plant a new garden together.
c. They put all of Ob’s whirligigs in May’s garden.
d. They visit Charleston, the state capitol.
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10: In Shiloh, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, what finally happens that forces Judd to negotiate with Marty for the beagle?
a. Marty sees Judd kick Shiloh.
b. Marty knows that Judd tries to spit his tobacco juice near people he doesn’t like.
c. Marty sees Judd cheat Mr. Wallace in the country store.
d. Marty catches Judd shooting a deer out of season.
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11: In Shiloh, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, who realizes: “nothing is as simple as you guess -- not right or wrong . . . .”
a. Marty Preston
b. Judd Travers
c. Doc Murphy
d. Ray Preston
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12: What is Maniac Magee referring to when he describes a place “where everybody talks to each other and uses the same toaster,” in the novel by Jerry Spinelli?
a. An orphanage
b. The Beale’s house
c. His aunt and uncle’s old house
d. A home
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13: In Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli, who refers to their home and tells Maniac Magee that he is: “going to sleep there tonight and tomorrow night and the night after that and every night....”
a. Amanda Beale
b. Earl Grayson
c. Jon McNab
d. Mrs. Pickwell
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14: In Lois Lowry’s Number the Stars, why do the Rosens leave their home in Denmark and flee to Sweden with the help of the Johansens, Uncle Henrick, and Peter?
a. Because Mrs. Hirsch and her son have been taken away by the Nazis.
b. They flee in order to escape “relocation” by the Nazis.
c. Because Mr. Rosen is a spy.
d. Because their Jewish friends warned them that their name is on a list that the Nazis have.
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15: In Lois Lowry’s Number the Stars, who said the following to Annemarie: “it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.”
a. Uncle Henrik
b. Mother
c. Peter Neilsen
d. Lise
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