Character
Name the two main characters with their first and last names and their respective roles in the adventure.
In the Mixed up Files by Konigsburg, Jamie and Claudia Kincaid are the two main characters. Jamie is the treasurer and controls the spending. Claudia plans and leads.
Name where the children live, the name of the suburb and the city is close to and the place they runaway to.
In Mixed Up Files by Konigsburg, the children live in Greenwich, a suburb of New York, and they run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the city.
In Mixed up Files, they hide out by lifting their feet up in the school bus until the driver leaves.
How does Jamie acquire his money? Name the game, the method, and the friend.
In Mixed up Files by Konigsburg, Jamie cheats at war, the card game, against his friend Bruce.
Where do the children store their belongings?
In Mixed up Files by Konigsburg, the children store their violin cases filled with clothes in an Egyptian sarcophagus.
How do the children do their laundry?
In Mixed up Files, they walk to the laundromat.
At what place which the characters visit does Jamie share a detailed story about the furnace blowing up at school?
In Mixed up Files by Frankweiler, Jamie shares this falsehood at the UN.
In Mixed Up Files by Konigsburg, Jamie chooses the Italian Renaissance room because he thinks it will make Claudia bored.
What handicap does Mrs. Frankweiler give the children when she allows them to look for the drawing of Angel in her files.
In Mixed Up Files by Konigsburg, she allows the children to have the drawing but only if they look for it themselves in her files and find it within an hour.
Discuss two reasons that Claudia wishes to run away.
In Mixed up Files by Konigsburg, Claudia wishes to run away both to be more appreciated in her family as the oldest sister and to experience an adventure.
What room do the children sleep in, and based on this, you may look at the map of the museum. Which floor do you think they stayed on?
In Mixed up Files by Konigburg, they stay in the rooms with Fine and English and French furniture. These are likely on the first floor beside the Egyptian art room where their clothes are stored.
What does Jamie tell Mrs. Frankweiler that gives away the place where the children stayed during their run away?
In the Mixed up files by Konigsburg, Jamie mentions that they bathed and got money from the museum fountain.
Why does Claudia fret about going back home? What special thing does Mrs. Frankweiler give her that allows her to go home happily?
In Mixed up Files by Frankweiler, Claudia wants to go home "different." Mrs. Frankweiler gives her the secret of Angel's origins as a true Michaelangelo, and this secret allows Claudia to feel different.
Mrs. Frankweiler organizes her files with the drawing of angel in an unusually labeled drawer. What drawer is it in, why is it there, and how do the children figure out where to find it?
In Mixed up Files by Konigsburg, the drawing of Angel is in the drawer marked B, not M for Michaelangelo, but B for Bologna, the place where Mrs. Frankweiler acquired the statue. The children guess that is there because Jamie frequently says, "Boloney," and that reminds Claudia of the name of the city where she bought the statue.
On two occasions, Claudia follows a hunch that turns out to be very significant. Describe these two events.
In Mixed up Files by Konigsburg, Claudia waits an extra time in the bathroom as Jamie sends her a subconscious message about the Angel statue. The second time is when she follows a hunch to visit Mrs. Frankweiler.