Before taking this test, please read the novel, The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary!
Please answer the questions to the best of your abilities by matching the people on the right to their quotes on the left. When you have answered all of the questions, click the "Check Answer" button. A box will pop-up with your score. Do not close until your score is printed or reviewed by your teacher.
"No! I won't have it! I'm too young to be dumped out with the trash!" (Ch. 3)
"Mary Lou, wake up. Look what I've caught." (Ch. 11)
"I'm fast but I'm careful. I haven't had an accident yet. At least not since I learned to ride the motorcycle." (Ch. 13)
"I want to do the right thing. There must be some way we could manage a tip." (Ch. 10)
"Huh? Betty, are you out of your mind? It must be past one o'clock in the morning." (Ch. 11)
"Let me at him," (Ch. 5)
"Yes! That's it. The door opened and the mouse rode in--" (Ch. 5)
"What's this I hear about you riding up and down the halls on a motorcycle?" (Ch. 8)
"You don't have a motorcycle. I just let you use mine. And you better be careful. I like that motorcycle and I don't want anything to happen to it." (Ch. 6)
"You won't let anything happen to my motorcycle, will you?" (Ch. 5)
"Be sure you clean 215 and 216 very thoroughly this morning. There has been a complaint from the guests. They suspect mice." (Ch. 6)
"I know you're in there!" Stick out your tongue and waggle your fingers at me, will you? You just wait!" (Ch. 7)
I'm sorry about dinner. It was the best I could do. All I had was a little soup." (Ch. 10)
"Golly! You know what? You're a pretty smart mouse. And a brave one, too." (Ch. 13)
"Mice? Oh no, Ma'am. The management wouldn't stand for mice." (Ch. 1)
"Aren't you out pretty late? You should have been in bed long ago, but I suppose you were out till all hours, speeding around on that motorcycle." (Ch. 5)
"If anybody asks me, I think it's a good thing he lost it. Riding a motorcycle is just plain foolhardy." (Ch. 8)
"Ralph! You stay away from that telephone cord!" (Ch. 2)
"I'll give to you a paper of pins, for that's the way my love begins." (Ch. 7)
"Not another mile. I'm not driving another mile on a California highway on a holiday weekend." (Ch. 1)
"Dad, did you see those two fellows on motorcycles." (Ch. 1)
"I think we should drive back to the main highway. There must be a motel with a Vacancy sign someplace. We didn't look long enough." (Ch 1)
"Remember your father. You can't carry an aspirin in your cheek pouches. It would poison you. How could you get one here?" (Ch. 11)
"Mice are adorable but just the same, I hope I never find any in my rooms. I'm afraid of them." (Ch. 3)
"Good work, Ralph. I didn’t think you could do it." (Ch. 13)
"Anyway, I didn't exactly ride it. I really coasted off. The telephone rang and startled me. Now how about getting me out of here?" (Ch. 4)
"I don't suppose a certain irresponsible mouse happened to ride it into a pile of sheets and pillowcases and get tangled up and dumped into the hamper." (Ch. 13)
"You are a nuisance, that's what you are. A four-footed, hair-covered nuisance." (Ch. 12)
"Ralph, if I have told you once, I have told you a thousand times--" (Ch. 6)
