Cricket in Times Square -- Ch. 2

The author writes that the mystery sound "was like a quick stroke across strings of a violin" ...

What kind of literary device was he using?

• metaphor

• simili

• synonym

• antonym

When Mario followed the sound, he found a

• grasshopper

• locust

• cricket

• beetle

After Mario picked up the cricket, it began to chirp happily.

• True

• False

What is the first thing Mario did after taking the cricket to the newsstand?

• He fed him.

• He named him.

• He made a bed for him.

• He cleaned him up.

What did Mario find to make a bed for the cricket?

• Shoe box

• Match box

• Styrofoam cup

• Kleenex box

Realizing that the cricket might be hungry, Mario fed him

• a piece of cracker

• a piece of his chocolate bar

• some bread from his sandwich

• part of a potato chip

What did Mama Bellini tell Mario to do with the cricket?

• Take it home

• Put it back where he'd found it

• Feed it to the cat

• Throw it away

Mario tried to talk his mom into letting him keep the cricket by telling her that

• crickets are supposed to bring good luck

• crickets don't eat much

• crickets make good pets

• crickets can make you happy

Mario said crickets could also

• predict what the weather was going to do

• tell the temperature by the number of their chirps

• mimic any song that it heard with its chirps

Who suggested Mario could keep the cricket at the newsstand?

• Mario

• Mama Bellini

• Papa Bellini