How to Eat Fried Worms Ch. 3-4

Bill was ___ to get ready for the first worm.

• telling jokes
• reading to get his mind clear
• exercising

Last summer Billy had taken a bet to:

• take a pack of seven dogs on a hike around the block
• sleep with Tom's dog, Martha
• sleep out in an igloo they'd built in Tom's backyard

Tom brought the first worm for Billy to eat on a:

• silver platter
• a pile of dirt
• a chipped flower dish

Tom prepared the worm by ___.

• boiling it
• chopping it into bite-sized pieces
• rolling it on ketchup

Joe settled the disagreement about whether or not a night crawler was a worm by --

• consulting with the owner of the fishing supply shop
• asking his mother
• reading the definition of a night crawler from his father's dictionary

Billy said the worm was ____,

• as creepy as the Hulk when he was angry
• as big as a souvenir pencil from the Empire State Building
• as mushy as the peaches that were in the cellar all winter

Tom convinced Billy to eat the worm by:

• telling him to think of eating the worm as an adventure
• telling him that Alan and Joe would call him a chicken
• telling him how he had eaten pickled pigs' feet last summer.

After eating the worm --

• Billy threw up
• Billy hopped around flappign his arms
• Billy ran away

What was the main conflict of the story?

• Billy must eat 15 worms in 15 days to win a bet.
• Four friends are angry with each other and must make up.