The Alvin Ho Game
Characters The Story Vocabulary Emotions
and Fears
Toys and
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© Suzy Red, Lockhart, TX, 2009
Final Liter-G
$100 Question from Characters
How was Alvin Ho
different from most kids?
$100 Answer from Characters
Alvin Ho was afraid of
more things than most kids
are.
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$200 Question from Characters
How was Alvin Ho different
in school than he was in
other places?
$200 Answer from Characters
In school, Alvin Ho could
not speak.
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$300 Question from Characters
Who was Alvin's best friend
in school and how was she
physically different from the
other kids?
$300 Answer from Characters
Alvin's best friend in school was
Flea (Sophie) who was different
because she wore an eye patch and
had one leg that was longer than
the other like a peg-legged pirate.
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$400 Question from Characters
In what ways was Flea a
good friend to Alvin?
$400 Answer from Characters
Flea showed friendship to Alvin
by being understanding of his
fears. She wrote a book about
him, was able to understand
what his eyes were saying.
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$500 Question from Characters
What did Alvin's father do
when he got really angry?
$500 Answer from Characters
When Alvin's father got really
angry, he played the piano like
crazy and cursed a wild blue
streak like William Shakespeare.
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$100 Question from
The Story
At home, what did Alvin call the
superhero that he was before he
started school and what did his
costume look like?
$100 Answer from The Story
At home, Alvin called his
superhero-self Firecracker Man.
He wore a cape, a mask, and a
colander on his head.
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$200 Question from
The Story
What did Alvin do with his
Daisuke Matsuzaka
autographed baseball?
Why?
$200 Answer from
The Story
Alvin wrote his own name on
the autographed baseball
because Calvin was writing his
name inside his favorite books.
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$300 Question from
The Story
What part did Alvin play in
the game at recess?
$300 Answer from The Story
At recess, Alvin played dead
because Pinky wouldn’t let
him be a Minuteman or a
Redcoat.
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$400 Question from The Story
Why did Alvin go to visit
Jules while Jules had chicken
pox? How did it turn out?
$400 Answer from The Story
Alvin went to visit Jules while
Jules had chicken pox because
Alvin wanted to catch chicken
pox and get to miss school. It
worked, but it started an
epidemic that closed the school.
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$500 Question from The Story
What Alvin's PDK? What
did it contain?
$500 Answer from The Story
Alvin's PDK was his Personal Disaster
Kit. It was a waterproof fly box with
compartments containing a whistle, a
three-leaf clover, garlic, dental floss,
Band-Aids, a magnifying glass, a
mirror, a bandana, a scary mask, and
escape routes.
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$100 Question from
Vocabulary
When would a "tourniquet" be
used? Use "tourniquet" in a
sentence.
Page 5
$100 Answer from
Vocabulary
A "tourniquet" would be used if
someone got a cut with uncontrolled
bleeding. Example sentence: "Alvin
kept a tourniquet in his PDK just in case
he got a bad cut and needed a tourniquet
to stop the bleeding."
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$200 Question
from Vocabulary
What is the meaning of the word
"mayhem"?
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$200 Answer from Vocabulary
The word "mayhem" chaos,
war, or mass confusion.
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$300 Question from Vocabulary
What does the word,
"uncommunicative" mean?
Page 41
$300 Answer from Vocabulary
"Uncommunicative"
means tight-lipped or
unable to talk.
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$400 Question from Vocabulary
What is a "backhoe" used for?
Page 20
$400 Answer from Vocabulary
A "backhoe" is used for
digging deep holes.
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$500 Question from Vocabulary
What does "wafted" mean in
this sentence: "Then the scent
of cookies wafted from the
house?
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$500 Answer from Vocabulary
"Wafted" means floated or
drifted in the air.
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$100 Question from
Emotions and Fears
What are some of
the things that Alvin
feared?
$100 Answer from
Emotions and Fears
Alvin feared elevators, tunnels,
bridges, airplanes, thunder,
substitute teachers, kimchi,
wasabi, the dark, heights, scary
movies, scary dreams, shots, and
school.
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$200 Question from
Emotions and Fears
How did crying make
Alvin feel?
$200 Answer from
Emotions and Fears
Crying made Alvin
feel better.
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$300 Question from
Emotions and Fears
How did Alvin's mom
react to his problems?
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$300 Answer from
Emotions and Fears
How did Alvin's mom
gave Alvin lots of
sympathy and said, "Oh,
you poor thing."
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$400 Question from
Emotions and Fears
Why was Alvin
afraid of the
psychotherapist?
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$400 Answer from
Emotions and Fears
Alvin knew that a therapist is a very smart
person who tries to help you, but he also
knew that a psycho in the movies is a
crazy person. So, he reasoned that a
psychotherapist is a very smart crazy
person you should stay away from.
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$500 Question from
Emotions and Fears
How did Alvin finally react to
the psychotherapist? Why?
$500 Answer from
Emotions and Fears
Alvin used his father's
Shakespearean curses to curse at
the psychotherapist when he
"flipped out" after she kept
letting him win the card games.
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$100 Question from
Toys and Things
What was Alvin's father's
favorite toy?
$100 Answer from
Toys and Things
Alvin's father's favorite toy
was Johnny Astro.
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$200 Question from
Toys
What happened to his father's
favorite toy?
$200 Answer from
Toys
Alvin took Johnny Astro to
school on the bus for show
and some pieces of it got
lost and others got broken.
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$300 Question from
Toys and Things
Why wouldn't Anibelly help
Alvin find courage on the way
to piano lessons?
$300 Answer from
Toys
Anibelly suspected that piano
teacher was the witch and that
she and Alvin would become
Hansel and Gretel.
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$400 Question from
Toys and Things
What did Alvin give to
Pinky to try to make
friends? Did it work?
$400 Answer from
Toys
Alvin gave Pinky his baseball
cards to try to make friends. It
may have worked too well
because Pinky wanted Alvin to
join his gang…and Alvin
refused!
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$500 Question from
Toys and Things
Why did Alvin ask Pinky to
return the baseball cards?
Page 154
$500 Answer from
Toys
Alvin knew that he didn't
want to be friends with
Pinky and his gang if he had
to buy their friendship and
act like them.
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Final Alvin Ho Game Question
How was Alvin's family just
right for him?
Final Alvin Ho Game Answer
Alvin's family loved him unconditionally.
His mother sympathized with him. His
father trusted him and expected him to be
a gentleman. His sister was his buddy,
and Calvin tried to help him. His
gunggung played baseball with him and
showed him great pitches. In their eyes,
he was special.