The Extra Good Sunday (Ramona Quimby, Age 8)

Everybody felt happy and merry at the _________ birthday dinner.

• ingredients

• festive

• cross

The _____________ in this salad include tomatoes, lettuce, and cucumbers.

• recommended

• ingredients

• degrees

Why are Beezus and Ramona behaving so well at the beginning of the story?

• They hope their parents will take them roller skating as a reward.

• They hope it will make their father forget that he is angry at them.

• They hope it will make their parents forget the girls' promise to make dinner.

How do the girls feel Sunday morning?

• angry

• excited

• worried

The guest ____________, or said, that the meal was delicious.

• anxiously

• cross

• remarked

Children often feel ______, or angry, when asked to eat food they dislike.

• cross

• tense

• festive

Why do Ramona and Beezus think their parents are mean?

• They make the girls cook dinner.

• They make the girls clean their rooms.

• They tell the girls they cannot roller-skate.

Why do the girls think about making something bad for dinner?

• They think it will show how creative they can be in the kitchen.

• They cannot find the ingredients they need to make something tasty.

• They want their parents to know how it feels to have to eat something awful.

This snack was baked in a hot oven. It was set to 350 ___________

• ingredients

• degrees

• tense

Relax when you frost a cake. If you're ________, your hands will shake and ruin it

• cross

• tense

• degrees