Character Traits
Which character trait describes Bud when he keeps trying to find his father despite difficult circumstances?
What is determination?
Where is Bud living at the beginning of the novel?
What is the Home, an orphanage?
What reading strategy helps you figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word by using nearby sentences?
What are context clues?
A writer compares two unlike things using the word 'like' or 'as.' What type of figurative language should you look for when examining Bud's descriptions?
What is a simile?
Buds' name for his rules.
What is ""Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself"
Bud creates rules to help himself survive difficult situations. What trait does this demonstrate?
What are resourcefulness and independence?
What conflict causes Bud to leave the Amos home?
What is the incident involving Todd and the adults' response to it?
What is sad, disappointed, quiet, or in low spirits?
Bud sometimes describes situations in ways that help readers picture them vividly. What literary device gives human actions or qualities to nonhuman things?
What is personification?
What does Bud carry with him that contains important belongings and memories of his mother?
What is a suitcase?
What do Bud's rules reveal about his past experiences?
What is that he has learned to prepare for difficult situations because of past hardships?
What clue leads Bud to believe Herman E. Calloway might be his father?
What are the flyers advertising Herman E. Calloway and his band?
What does ingratitude mean?
What is he state of being ungrateful, or a complete lack of appreciation, or thanks?
If Bud describes something as though it is something completely different, without using 'like' or 'as,' what type of figurative language might he be using?
What is a metaphor?
What does Bud keep in his suitcase?
What is a blanket, bag of rocks, flyers, and a change of clothes.
How do Bud's memories of his mother influence his decisions?
What is that his memories and the clues connected to his mother motivate his search for his father?
What city does Bud travel toward in hopes of finding his father?
What is Grand Rapids, Michigan?
What does slew mean?
What is Large amount or quantity?
When analyzing Bud's descriptions of frightening or difficult experiences, what figurative language technique uses extreme exaggeration to emphasize a feeling?
What is hyperbole?
When is this story taking place?
What is the Great Depression?
What does Bud's attachment to his suitcase suggest about him?
What is sentimentality, or valuing memories and meaningful belongings?
Explain how one event in Chapters 1–9 leads to another major event in Bud's journey.
Answers vary. Students should accurately explain a cause-and-effect connection between events.
What does chattering mean?
What is to talk for a long time about things that are not important?
Bud's momma mentions the metaphor when one door closes another one opens. What does this metaphor symbolize?
What is Bud's mother used the saying to teach him resilience and hope during hard times in the Great Depression?
Who is the author of Bud, Not Buddy?
Who is Christopher Paul Curtis?