Lunch Money - ch 20-24

"Thursday afternoon was scraping along like a glacier." This author is using which form of figurative language?

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

Greg wondered if he was really a __________________.

• greedy little money grubber

• hyperactive friend

• sick in the head

• student with no heart

How much does the town pay the School Committee to do their jobs?

• They get free tickets to all town events.

• A salary equal to a teacher.

• $100 per meeting

• Nothing

Who spoke to the School Committee in favor of Chunky Comics being sold at the school? Choose ALL that apply.

• Mrs. Davenport

• Mr. Z

• Greg

• Maura

During the School Committee meeting, Mr. Z surveyed the audience to see who had_____________________.

• eaten dinner.

• gone to college.

• read comic books in their life.

• watched cartoons growing up.

Greg and Maura proposed creating the Chunky Comic Club. This club would allow______________________.

• anyone to submit a comic to sell.

• only Greg and Maura's comic to be sold.

• only comics about unicorns.

The Chunky Monkey club that Greg and Maura proposed to the School Committee planned to _______________. Choose ALL that apply.

• serve lunch to the poor.

• give the school library 10% of the profits for the New Book Fund.

• hold after school workshops on creating comics.

• decorate bulletin boards advertising school books.

As a child, Mrs. Davenport grew up in a home where _____________.

• music was the only source of entertainment.

• she and her siblings did too many chores.

• her parents were never home to read to their children.

• comic books were forbidden.

Someone dropped off a box of comic books to Mrs. Davenport's home. This was the first time she had read one. What did she think of comic books?

• They were enjoyable.

• Comic books were a waste of time.

• The characters in comic books were unbelievable.

• Comic books should only be in newspapers.

Even though Mrs. Davenport liked reading a comic book for the first time, she still didn't want to sell them at the school. She thought __________________.

• students would start stealing at school

• students would forget about the library.

• too many different things would start being sold turning the school into a flea market.

• homemade comic books would ruin store bought comic books.