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WorksheetsCricket in Times Square -- Ch. 2
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
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
