Hitting the Road Final Quiz
Name: _______________________
Word Bank
train
farmer
restaurant
cops
run away
pool
cousin
three
home
Ace
easy
safe
Matt
Detroit
young
woman
alleys
fight
accident
garbage
Bruiser
money
panics
Chatham
dangerous
problems
idea
bridge
decides
drunk
Cody and ________ are best friends. When Cody gets into a fight with ____________,
Cody goes to Matt and tells him he wants to _________ __________. Matt does not
think this is a good idea. He tells Cody that Cody is too __________ to run away and
that hitting the road can be ___________. He tells Cody that he will have to eat out of
the __________ and sleep in _________. Matt knows this because he ran away before
and it was not __________.
Cody tells Matt that he still wants to leave. Matt __________ to go with Cody.
Matt is hoping that he will be able to keep Cody __________.
Matt and Cody get in the car with __________ drivers. The first driver is
__________ and almost gets into an __________. The second driver is a __________
who is very talkative. She drops the boys off in ____________.
The boys go into a ___________. After they eat, Cody plays _________ with a
red haired boy. Matt doesn’t want Cody to play because he is afraid Cody will lose the
rest of their __________. Cody wins the game but when he and Matt leave, some boys
are waiting outside and start a __________.
The last drive is Mr. McGee. He is a ____________. He knows the boys are
running away because he ran away when he was __________. McGee gives the boys
some advice: know when to go ___________.
Matt and Cody need to cross the train __________ to get to ___________. On
the bridge, Cody __________ because he sees how far down the ground is below the
bridge. Also, a _________ is coming which makes things even worse. Matt helps Cody
off the bridge and then they jump on a ___________ to get into Detroit. The boys are
seen by the train __________ but manage to get away.
Cody finds the house in Detroit where his __________ was staying, but he is no
longer living there. A man named ___________ says that Cody can stay at the house
but he must help out if Cody has no __________. Cody decides that it is not a good
_________. He decides to go home and face his ____________.