By the Great Horn Spoon (Chapters 11-15)

What does it mean when someone “takes a hairbrush to you?”

• give you a present

• make you brush your hair

• getting a whipping with the back side of a hairbrush

• they really like you

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CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.RL.4.4

Why would Praiseworthy think Miss Arabella could never marry him?

• because he was a butler

• because she was too old

• because he was too old

• because Miss Arabella was already married

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CCSS.RL.4.1

How does Jack end up with a bushel of neckties?

• Aunt Arabella sent them

• Cut eye Higgins stole them to pay back Jack

• Jack mistakenly bought them at an auction

• Praiseworthy gave them to him for his birthday

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CCSS.RL.4.1

Why did the miners want the neckties after all?

• they looked so handsome

• they were going to get their pictures done

• it kept the fleas off at night

• there was a woman in Hangtown

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CCSS.RL.4.1

Why does Praiseworthy think he can beat the Mountain Ox?

• he really is super strong

• Mountain Ox is actually tiny

• he believes the exaggeration about him

• he thinks he can out wit the Mountain Ox

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

What did the miner with the toothache tell Jack and Praiseworthy?

• “Doc Higgins” was in Shirt Tale Camp

• they will never find gold

• the coffee wasn’t any good

• it was going to start raining

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CCSS.RL.4.1

Why was Jack lucky when he fell into the coyote hole?

• he found gold

• he found Cut-eye Higgin's map

• he escaped the grizzly bear

• it was a fun fall

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.2

How does Jack know the man who rescued him was a road agent?

• he had a name tag

• he was wearing Cut-eye Higgins’ coat

• he was a road agent that tried to rob Jack before

• he couldn’t sit down

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CCSS.RL.4.1

What does Praiseworthy realize after he cut apart Higgins’ coat?

• Cut eye still had the map

• the road agent wasn’t really reformed

• he really wanted the coat

• Jack took the map

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

Where can you predict Jack and Praiseworthy will go next?

• Boston

• Sacramento

• Shirt-tail Camp

• Hangtown

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CCSS.RL.4.1