Ch 15 "Bud, Not Buddy" Vocab and Comprehension

Chapter 15 begins with Bud doing what? 

• Hiding in the bathroom of the Sweet Pea because he was embarrased. 
• Arriving at a big house Miss Thomas called "Grand Calloway Station". 
• Confronting Herman E. Calloway about being his father. 
• Driving back to the home with Jimmy from the band. 

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Grand Calloway Station got its name from so many people coming and going at all hours of the night, just like Grand Central Station. This is an example of what type of figurative language? 

• Onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• personification
• alliteration

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On page 177, the little doors in the room scared Bud. Who or what did he think were behind the doors? 

• Vampires and hornets
• Todd Amos and his mother
• Mr. Jimmy and Steady Eddie
• Young Frankenstein and the Wolfman

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What is the gist of the only rule mentioned in this chapter? 

• Be thankful for the small things. 
• Don't make your lies too hard to remember. 
• When one door opens, another closes. 
• Gone = dead. 

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What is the idiom used to explain that Herman E. Calloway and Miss Thomas were arguing on page 179? 

• "loud voices were coming from out in the hall"
• "going at each other" 
• "win the argument" 
• "they argued back and forth" 

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What is the type of figurative language in the following example on pg. 179, "Herman E. Calloway stood there huffing and puffing like the big bad wolf". 

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personifcation
• Idiom

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Identify the type of tone shown by Herman E. Calloway when he enters the room where Bud is staying. 

• "happy" and "welcoming" 
• "sad" and "remorseful"
• "angry" and "hostile"
• "carefree" and "wistful" 

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What type of technique is the writer using when Bud starts telling about a time he was warned about peeing in a pool? 

• flash-forward or foreshadowing
• flash-back or memory moment
• dream sequence
• sequence of events

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What is the exact simile, word-for-word, that Bud uses to explain how he was sleeping at the end of the chapter? 

• "sleeping with my own blanket"
• "sleeping like a dead man"
• "nothing could hurt me now"
• "the last thing I remember"

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What is the exact idiom, word-for-word, that Bud uses to explain that the little girl who had stayed in the room before him had died? 

• "the bedroom of the little girl"
• "I wasn't feeling scared or nervous"
• "deep, deep breath"
• "kicked the bucket"

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