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Small Steps Reading Quiz
Class : _____
Name : ______________
Chapters 1-6
1.
The man who Kaira called Doofus was her _____.
2.
How did Ginny's cerebral palsy affect her?
3.
Armpit borrowed a stuffed animal named _____ from Ginny for his speech class.
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Who was El Genius?
5.
X-Ray wanted Armpit to _____.
6.
Felix and Moses were _____.
7.
How did he get the name Armpit?
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Armpit saw Tatiana in _____ class.
9.
Kaira DeLeon was a _____.
10
What other class was Armpit taking in addition to speech?
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Who was Cherry Lane?
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Armpit's counselor warned him that life after getting out of prison would be _____.
13.
Did Armpit agree to give X-Ray money to buy the concert tickets?
14.
Billy Boy had sent Kaira _____.
15.
Armpit and X-Ray had met at _____.
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16.
What was Armpit's job?
17.
Where had Armpit been three years ago?
18.
Who drove a noisy, rusted Honda Civic with the driver's side door bashed in?
19.
True or false? Ginny looked up to Armpit.
Chapters 7-12
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20.
Why did Armpit and X-Ray go to Smokestack Lightnin'?
21.
What did Tatiana tell Armpit about his speech?
22.
Armpit's speech was about _____.
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23.
Why didn't X-Ray sell the tickets to the two men at the H-E-B parking lot?
24.
_____ got the most votes for ruler of the world in the speech contest.
25.
After class on the day of the speeches, X-Ray brought Armpit _____.
26.
Murdock bought _____ tickets.
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When Armpit told X-Ray that he wanted to lower the price of the tickets to $70,
X-Ray replied that he already had a customer who wanted to buy _____ tickets for
$135 each.
28.
How did Kaira DeLeon travel from one concert city to the next?
29.
What was Aileen's job?
30.
What was Smokestack Lightnin'?
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In the newspaper, X-ray had listed the concert tickets on sale for _____.
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32.
When Armpit and X-Ray went back to the parking lot at night, did they sell the tickets to
the two men in the white Suburban?
33.
Armpit invited Tatiana to go to _____.
34.
The people who stopped Armpit on his way to school were riding in a _____.
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35.
Tatiana called Armpit by his real name, which was _____.
36.
Who was Rhoda Morgenstern?
37.
Armpit thought that the price was too high because _____.
38.
Why did Murdock want to buy Kaira DeLeon tickets?
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39.
The tickets that Armpit and X-Ray bought were for seats in row _____.
40.
Who was Wiley?
Chapters 13-18
41.
What did Ginny buy at the concession stand?
42.
What did X-Ray say to Armpit when he handed him the envelope containing their last two
tickets?
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43.
Who did Kaira visit just before her performance? Why?
44.
X-Ray had sold the last two real tickets for _____.
45.
At the concert, the guard asked to see Armpit's tickets because they were _____.
46.
Where did Armpit and Ginny sit to watch the concert?
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47.
Ginny told Kaira that Armpit had spent a year at _____.
48.
Claire told Tatiana that Armpit was _____.
49.
After singing all of her own songs on stage, Kaira sang a song by _____.
50.
Who got fired after the concert?
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After the concert, Kaira's manager was angry because _____.
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52
Who called Armpit the morning after the concert?
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53.
After the concert, Kaira served Ginny and Armpit _____in her dressing room.
54.
Backstage, Kaira wore a _____over her stage costume.
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55.
"Red Alert" was a _____.
56.
When the guard put handcuffs on Armpit, what happened to Ginny?
57.
Armpit's grade on his speech was a/an _____.
58.
What did Ginny's mom say to Armpit's mom just before Armpit and Ginny left for
the concert?
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59.
After talking to her friends, what did Tatiana call to tell Armpit?
60.
The second girl Armpit invited to the concert was _____.
Chapters 19-24
61.
At first, Armpit told Detective Newberg that he had seen the tickets advertised in _____.
62.
Armpit had difficulty finding Kaira at the Four Seasons because he couldn't remember the
name _____.
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63.
After watching the interview at the police station, Armpit was driven to work by _____.
64.
Why did Kaira scream when she was on the phone with Armpit?
65.
Who was the suspect at the police station?
66.
Next, he told her that he had seen the tickets advertised in _____.
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67.
Why was Detective Newberg interviewing Armpit?
68.
Kaira invited Armpit to visit her in _____ where she was going for three days to do
several shows.
69.
Kaira and Armpit walked out on the patio to get away from _____.
70.
Armpit said that Habib had a/an _____ accent.
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71.
Detective Newberg suspected that X-Ray had a partner because _____.
72
The mayor called Armpit to ask _____.
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73
Who was Debbie Newberg?
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74.
Detective asked Armpit to come down to the police station because _____.
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75.
Did one of Kaira's songs have a line that said "Save me, Armpit"?
76.
Armpit told the detective that the man who sold him the tickets was named _____.
77.
In _____ class, Armpit paid back the dollar he had borrowed from Matt.
78.
_____ called Armpit while he was studying economics to ask about the guy named
Habib.
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Armpit received a letter addressed to Theodore A. Johnson from _____.
Chapters 25-30
80.
Did Armpit go to San Francisco?
81.
Jack Dunlevy gave Armpit a _____.
82.
Who stepped on X-ray's glasses?
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83.
Jerome's plan was to divorce Kaira's mom after _____.
84.
The note that Armpit left for his parents said that he would be back on _____.
85.
Armpit and Kaira took a walk through which part of San Francisco?
86.
What happened when Armpit went through security at the airport?
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87.
Moses asked Armpit for _____.
88.
Aileen had stolen _____ from Kaira's trust account.
89.
Armpit fought with _____.
90.
If Kaira died before she turned eighteen years old, then _____ would inherit her
money.
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91.
A _____ picked up Armpit at his house to take him to the airport.
92.
Kaira had said that she planned to fire _____ when she turned eighteen years
old.
93
In the hotel lobby, Armpit met Jerome Paisley who asked Armpit if he
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liked _____.
94.
In Armpit's room, Jerome put _____ in an envelope.
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95.
Jack Dunlevy gave X-Ray a _____.
96.
While Armpit was repairing a leak in a front yard, _____, _____, and _____ pulled up in
front of the house.
97.
Aileen planned to book an airline ticket for herself to _____.
98.
Aileen called Armpit to ask him for his _____.
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In the hotel gift shop, Armpit bought a _____.
Did Armpit give Moses Kaira's letter?
Chapters 31-36
101.
Armpit was questioned _____ times by the police.
102.
Jerome Paisley hit Kaira with a _____.
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In Chinatown, Armpit bought a roast pork sandwich and remembered a speech by
_____.
104.
_____ and _____ were taken to the hospital on stretchers.
105.
In the hospital, Kaira apologized to _____.
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106.
Step number five of Armpit's small steps was to lose _____.
107.
How did Armpit feel when he heard Kaira singing again on the radio?
108.
Did Armpit plan to let his life revolve around Kaira DeLeon in the future?
109.
To get Armpit's attention, what did Kaira do?
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For a while after the attack, it looked like Kaira might never be able to _____
again.
111
Armpit said that North Beach was like Camp Green Lake because it didn't
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have a _____.
112
In the coffeehouse, Kaira threw _____ at Armpit.
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113
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In North Beach, Kaira and Armpit visited a _____.
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While they were in the coffeehouse, what did Armpit ask Kaira to do?
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115.
_____ was taken away in handcuffs.
116.
After the incident, newspapers called Armpit a _____.
117.
Kaira DeLeon did sing a new song on the radio; it was about taking _____.
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118.
_____ had disappeared from the tour.
119.
Armpit's final grade in economics was _____.