Vocabulary
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
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Define remorseful

What is regretful.

100

Where does the story take place?

What is in a motel.

100

Where does Ralph live?

What is in a knothole in room 215.

100

Why is chapter 3's title "Trapped?" 

What is because Ralph is stuck inside the wastebasket.

100

What is the title of chapter 4?


What is Keith.

200

Define relenting.

What is giving in.
200

Who watching Keith and his parents as they entered the hotel room?

What is a mouse (Ralph).

200

Why does Ralph want the boy to leave crumbs?

What is so he can eat them.

200

What happened to Uncle Victor?

What is he was dumped into an incinerator.

200

Was Keith going to hurt Ralph when he found him? why or why not.

What is no because he wanted to see mice in the hotel.
300
Define bravado

What is a display of courage

300

What season is it?

What is summer.

300

What caught Ralph's attention and made him eager to try?

What is the motorcycle.

300

Who does Ralph think of when he falls into the wastebasket?

What is Uncle Victor.

300

How did the motorcycle look when Keith found it?

What is chipped paint and bent handle bars.

400

Define despair.

What is hopelessness.

400

Why did Keith like the motel?

What is he had his own room.

400

How did Ralph's father get poisoned? 

What is an aspirin tablet dissolved in his mouth.

400

Ralph didn't have the ________ to tip over the wastebasket.

What is strength.

400

How did Ralph get out of the wastebasket?

What is Keith tipped it over slowly.

500

Define indignant.

What is offended.

500

What did Mrs. Gridley see as soon as she walked into Keith's room?


a. The mouse

b. Keith's homework

c. Keith's clothes all over the floor

d. Keith's apple core 

d. Keith's apple core

500

What happened to Ralph at the end of chapter 2?

What is he fell into the wastebasket off the motorcycle.

500

Who was crawling in the wastebasket with Ralph (around the apple core)?

What is two ants.

500

How does the motorcycle start and run? What are the three discoveries he made?

What is by making the motorcycle noise. 

1. The faster he makes the noise the faster the motorcycle will run.

2. If he stops to catch his breath the motorcycle will continue.

3. If he slowed the sound the motorcycle would slow down.