Vocabulary
Little 500
Characters
Dave and Katherine
Plot
100
Hit; striked hard.
What is smote?
100
This is what Dave called the "official issue" bike.
What is "a piece of junk"?
100
The 4 main characters.
Who are Dave, Moocher, Cyril, and Mike?
100
"I got a job in Chicago."
Who is Katherine?
100
The place where the 4 boys go swimming.
What is the quarry?
200
A completely expressionless face.
What is deadpan?
200
The number of people each team needed to consist of for the Little 500.
What is four?
200
Pretended he was Enrico Gimondi because he wanted to be Italian.
Who is Dave?
200
At the end, what new language is Dave learning?
What is French?
200
The place where Mr. Stohler takes Dave to talk to him after Dave returns home from the bike race where the Italians cheated.
What is the college campus?
300
To change someone's mind.
What is dissuade?
300
The reason Mike did not get on the bike after Dave came in the first time.
What is Mike froze?
300
Working as a waitress at Nick's Bar and Grill.
Who is Nancy?
300
Dave returns this to "The Girl" towards the beginning of the book.
What is a piece of paper?
300
The 2 characters that go into the courthouse to get married.
Who are Nancy and Moocher?
400
Harsh; rough and abrupt.
What is brusque?
400
The winners of the Little 500.
What are the Cutters?
400
Had a bowling ball stuck to his hand.
Who is Cyril?
400
Who plays the guitar while Dave serenades Katherine?
Who is Cyril?
400
The number of times that Dave rides the bike during the Little 500.
What is two?
500
To soothe; to please.
What is placate?
500
After this happened, the university president told Rod and his buddies that the Little 500 was going to be opened to allow a team from the town to join.
What is fight in the student union between the cutters and the college students?
500
"That's the place to be...Wyoming. Look at that...prairies and mountains and nobody around."
Who is Mike?
500
The reason Dave hides behind a rock at the quarry.
What is he doesn't want Katherine to see him with his friends, who are cutters?
500
The reason Dave started calling his dad "Dad" again, instead of Papa.
What is the Italians cheated in the bike race?