Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963

After the family returned to Michigan, Kenny

• discovered that Rufus was moving to Virginia.

• ate only vegetables and drank tomato juice.

• made up his mind to learn fractions.

• spent a lot of time behind the couch.

This book was written by

• Robert Newton Peck.

• Walter Dean Myers.

• Willo Davis Roberts.

• Christopher Paul Curtis.

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Why did Rufus quit playing with Kenny?

• Kenny refused to help him with his homework.

• Kenny laughed at him along with everyone else.

• Kenny bragged about his new model airplanes.

• Kenny took his treasure map home to study it.

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Kenny first encountered the Wool Pooh when

• he almost drowned at Collier's Landing.

• he became trapped in Ventor Valley.

• he hit his head on a steel beam.

• he was very ill with pneumonia.

The Watsons went to Birmingham because

• Grandma Sands was having her 80th birthday party.

• Grandma Sands wanted to travel back with them.

• the Watson family reunion was quickly approaching.

• Byron was going to stay with Grandma Sands.

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Byron felt sorry that

• he had forgotten to pick up Joey.

• he had killed a mourning dove.

• he had spilled tobacco juice on the carpet.

• he had yelled at his mother.

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Byron told Kenny and Joey that

• beautiful marbles were made of real eyeballs.

• garbage trucks were full of frozen people.

• dead lizards haunted the school.

• gold was buried in their basement.

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Kenny was teased a lot because

• he had a lazy eye.

• he wore leg braces.

• he had a scar on his arm.

• he stuttered.

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The night before the Watsons left Michigan, Byron

• painted his bedroom walls.

• slept in his parents' room.

• stowed baseball cards in the car.

• ran to the store in his underwear.

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After Byron dyed his hair, his father

• dyed his own hair a different color.

• grounded him for a week without phone calls.

• wanted Kenny to wash out the color.

• shaved Byron's head completely bald.

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