The Watsons Go to Birmingham Ch 1-5

What part of Michigan are the Watsons from?

• Flint
• Detroit
• Ann Harbor
• Birmingham

What grade is Kenny, the narrator,in?

• 4th
• 5th
• 6th
• 7th

What state is Kenny's Mom originally from?

• Texas
• Michigan
• Arkansas
• Alabama

What is the name of the family car?

• The Brown Bomber
• The Blue Bomber
• The Mauve Bomber
• The Black Bomber

When Kenny and Byron are scraping ice off of the car, whose lips get frozen on the windows?

• Kenny
• Rufus
• Byron
• Joey

Which sentence best shows that Rufus probably didn’t have enough to eat at home?

• He was yakking a mile a minute, saying stuff like “Your momma sure can make a good peanut butter sandwich…”

• Larry Dunn walked up to our seat and said, “Country Corn Flake, I noticed how you and the Little Flake switch off on them pants…”

• When I handed him the apple, he even ate the spots where you could see my teeth had been…he didn’t even wipe the slob off first.”

• Rufus didn’t even mind being the Nazi dinosaurs most of the time and it was O.K. playing with him because he didn’t cheat and didn’t try to steal my plastic monsters.

By telling the story from Kenny’s point of view, the author helps the reader understand –

• Byron’s story about frozen dead people and garbage trucks

• why Kenny is so sad about losing his friendship with Rufus

• they way Larry Dunn is dressed and the reason he stole the gloves

• how Byron punished Larry for stealing Kenny’s gloves

Read the dictionary entry for the word dig.

Which definition represents the meaning of dig as it is used in the following sentences: “There’s a good reason Momma make you all wear all them clothes, and it’s got to do with them big doors on the back of the garbage trucks, dig?”

• to remove earth with a shovel

• to like, love, or enjoy

• to poke, thrust or force

• to understand

· Read the following passage: " While I was talking he kept moving around me so if I wanted to look at him sideways I’d have to move too…I bet we looked like the solar system, with me being the sun and Byron being the orbiting Earth."

· The author uses figurative language to show that –

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• Kenny is angry with Byron

• Byron is walking in a circle around Kenny as they talk

• Byron is upset by what Kenny is telling him.

• Kenny is very interested in the study of science

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Choose the word that best matches this definition.

Definition: an adolescent who breaks the law or engages in behavior that is considered illegal or inappropriate

• convict

• juvenile delinquent

• outlaw

• villain