He was a cricket who ended up in New York City by mistake.
Who is Chester?
100
Mr. Smedley's job.
What is a music teacher?
100
A Chinese treat with a little slip of paper inside.
What is a fortune cookie?
100
The place in New York City where Chester ends up lost and where the Bellinis have their newsstand.
What is Times Square? or What is a subway station?
100
The cricket cage was shaped like this kind of Chinese building.
What is a pagoda?
200
The wife of the newstand owner who doesn't like the "cricketer" at first.
Who is Mama Bellini?
200
The cricket learned to play popular music by listening to this.
What is the radio?
200
Chester's favorite food is the leaves from this kind of bush.
What is mulberry?
200
The state where Chester lived before he got lost in Times Square.
What is Connecticut?
200
The mouse knocked this over and started a fire in the newsstand.
What are matches?
300
He is the very first character introduced in the book.
Who is Tucker the mouse?
300
The type of music the Bellini family listens to every Saturday night on the radio.
What is opera? or What is Italian opera?
300
The sandwich meat that Chester smelled and liked that made him climb into the picnic basket.
What is liverwurst?
300
In a pile of newspapers and soot against a concrete wall in a subway station.
Where did Mario find Chester?
300
When Mario first tells Mama about the cricket, he tells her that Jim Lebovski told him that crickets can tell you this.
What is the temperature?
400
The counterman at the coffee shop who makes the cricket his own cup for drinking water.
Who is Mickey?
400
When Mario first heard the cricket chirp, he thought it sounded like this instrument. (Hint - there are two answers)
What is a violin? or What is a harp?
400
When Chester ate the money in his sleep, he dreamed that he was eating this.
What is a leaf? Or what is a very dry leaf?
400
When Mario first finds Chester, he puts a Kleenex in one to make a bed for Chester.
What is a matchbox?
400
The start of this month with all its changes and falling leaves made the cricket feel small and lost.
What is September?
500
The man who owns the store where Mario buys the cricket cage.
Who is Sai Fong?
500
Mr. Smedley says he ws the greatest musician that ever lived and that, when he played his harp, humans, animals and even rocks, trees and water listened.
Who is Orpheus?
500
The special treat that Mickey the counterman made for Mario and Chester.
What are strawberry ice cream sodas?
500
Mama and Papa Bellini lived in this country before they came to America.
What is Italy?
500
The game that Mario and Chester played together in the newsstand on the night Chester leaves. Chester is very good at it because he is so small.