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Setting
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Characters
Plot
100
1946
What year does the story take place?
100
huge; enormous
What is immense?
100
jealous
What is envious?
100
Join the Boy Scouts
What does the narrator do to become tough?
100
meet the requirements of "Scout Craft" by
What is going camping in the country?
200
Brooklyn
Where to the boys live?
200
to stand with a leg on either side
What is straddle?
200
an opening that allows gas, liquid, or smoke to escape
What is vent?
200
Horse brings a mattress
What proves that Horse is a poor thinker?
200
Palisades in New Jersey
Where did the boys go camping?
300
transportation that the boys used
What is the subway?
300
to reply, especially in a quick or unkind way
What is retort?
300
one who tries to win over another; competitor
What is rival?
300
Max is afraid to cross the bridge.
What proves that Max is timid?
300
Two boys jumped off the train at the last minute because
Horse forgot his mattress.
400
to go from Brooklyn to New Jersery
What is the George Washington bridge?
400
to beat, as with the fists
What is pummel
400
a feeling of doubt or mistrust
What is suspicion?
400
He is a problem-solver
Who is narrator?
400
The boys crossed the George Washington Bridge because
they would not admit they were afraid.
500
a park in New Jersey
Where did the boys camp?
500
in a very self-satisfied way
What is smugly?
500
to shout in a deep voice
What is bellow?
500
insecure
What is a trait of the narrator?
500
The boys agreed at the end of the story
they would not tell Mr. Brenkman about their trip.