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100
What is the name of the health teacher at Watkins?
Miss Stipler.
100
What does Evelyn bribe Butterball with?
A Mac laptop.
100
What is Butterball's real name?
Burton.
100
What was Butterball's reason for attacking Maurice?
Butterball claimed he was talking bad about him around school/behind his back.
100
Who is the Vice President of United States?
Joe Biden.
200
What is Nia's Aunts name?
Cora.
200
What is a 'stoop'?
A porch or steps in front of a house.
200
How did Butterball and Evelyn start to bond?
She brings her big, flat-screen TV, and DVD collection when she moves in to Butterball's Mom's apartment.
200
How did Butterball make things right with Malik?
Butterball confronts the bully that takes Malik's money.
200
What month was Ms. Tina born in?
July.
300
What is the name of Butterball's Dad's new girlfriend?
Angela (pg 300).
300
Where is the unusual place that Butterball starts to have lunch?
The 7th grade bathroom.
300
According to Butterball's father, who is Butterball (Burton) named after?
"...letting Shari name my only son after her dead granddaddy." Butterball is named after his great grandfather.
300
Butterball is out trying to find laundry detergent to buy after Nia's party. Why is he in search of laundry detergent?
To wash the blood and urine off of them before anyone found them.
300
What year did Ms. Rice graduate from Temple University?
2005.
400
Who runs into Butterball in the 7th grade bathroom and laughs at him?
Jamal.
400
What is the name of the school Liz asks Butterball to apply to?
Merce Cunningham High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
400
What is the name of the movie that Butterball films with Malik for his audition for the magnet school application?
The Superhero of Suburbia.
400
When Butterball goes back to school after Nia's party, what happens when he sees faces Andres, Darrell and Bobby for the first time?
They stop him in the hall, and make fun of them for how he got beat up at the party. OR He realizes how him getting beat up relates to him beating up Maurice.
400
Which of the planets in our solar system is closest to the sun?
Mercury.
500
Who does Butterball start sitting with at the lunch table?
Jamal and Shaun.
500
Where do Butterball, his Mom, and Evelyn go for a celebration dinner?
Houstons.
500
What do Liz and Butterball's Mom mention to him on separate occasions towards the end of the book?
That he is losing/has lost some weight.
500
What was Butterball's biggest struggle throughout the book?
Hold up your answers - there are multiple correct possibilities.
500
What body of water separates France and England?
English Channel.
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