The Cricket in Times Square - Chapters 03-04

Why is the book titled, The Cricket in Times Square?

• Well, there is a cricket in Times Square.

• Absolutely no reason at all. It's completely random.

• A kid buys a toy called The Cricket in Times Square.

• That is incorrect. The book is not called that.

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Why is Tucker Mouse so interested in meeting Chester cricket?

• A friend had told him about crickets.

• Harry Cat likes crickets.

• Tucker did not know what a cricket was.

• This cricket seems very friendly.

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How can the reader tell that Tucker is not wary of Chester?

wary: on watchful guard against threat, danger, or trickery; cautious.

• Tucker gives Chester liverwurst.

• Chester tells Tucker that he is not poisonous.

• Tucker trusts everyone in the subway station.

• Chester is secretly a monster.

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Which line from the story shows that Chester did not have an easy arrival to New York City?

• "That was the sound!" interrupted Tucker Mouse. "I heard it, but I didn't know what it was."

• "The people got off one train and walked a ways and got on another-even noisier than the first."

• "I didn't have any idea where we were, but as soon as the basket was carried off, I could tell from the noise it must be New York."

• "Such an introduction to New York," said Tucker, "to land in a pile of dirt in the Times Square subway station. Tsk, tsk, tsk."

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Why isn't Tucker Mouse scared of Harry Cat?

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Why is Chester Cricket pleased to see a star above Times Square?

• It was the one thing he recognized from Connecticut.

• That star will lead Chester Cricket back to home.

• Chester Cricket thought the star was very beautiful.

• Chester thinks that Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat will like the star.

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Look at the image. Which of the following phrases could NOT go in the middle?

• helpful to chester

• they are enemies

• live in New York City

• concerned for Mario

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If YOU were Tucker Mouse or Harry Cat, what would YOU say to Chester Cricket?

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