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Characters
Locations/Settings
Events
Misc.
Vocabulary
100
The younger brother in the story
Who is Harry?
100
Where Ben's dad was stationed in the military
What is Afghanistan?
100
Both of Ben and Harry's parents had been in this branch of the military.
What is the Air Force?
100
Harry's age?
What is 5?
100
savagely fierce or cruel
What is ferocious?
200
the cat's name
Who is Nya?
200
The town in Japan where Ben's grandfather lives
What is Shogahama?
200
The reason Harry wanted to climb to the top of the cherry tree.
What is because cherry trees are magic and he wanted to make a wish.
200
Harry thinks that Nya is this kind of special Stars Wars Cat.
What is a Jedi Cat or Darth Vader's special assistant?
200
looking firmly or directly at something
What is intently?
300
Ben and Harry's Great-Uncle(more like a grandfather)
Who is Ojisan?
300
The ocean nearest Ojisan's home
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
The place where Ben pulled Harry to safety when the earthquake came
What is under the bed?
300
What part of speech is poisonous in the following sentence: "The poisonous berries were right out in the open."
What is an adjective?
300
having no conclusion or limit
What is endless?
400
The author of the book
Who is Lauren Tarshis?
400
Where Ben walked to after the water went down
What is the elementary school?
400
The way that Ben got out of the sinking car
What is kicking out a window?
400
The point of view this story is written in
What is third person?
400
ate up hungrily
What is devoured?
500
The person who found Ben when he collapsed in the school hallway.
Who is Dr. Sato?
500
The state that is home for Ben, Harry and Mom.
What is California?
500
What Ben did when he needed to take car of the children at the school
What is teach them basketball.
500
A Japanese word that means "harbor wave"
What is tsunami?
500
to become quiet, less active
What is subside?