The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 Quizzes

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 Quiz 1

1 Where was Wilona born?
Michigan

Georgia

Louisiana

Alabama
2 In what city do the Watsons live?
Chicago

New York

Flint

Detroit
3 What do the Watsons call their car?
The Silver Bullet

The Yellow Submarine

The Green Machine

The Brown Bomber
4 What is Daddy Watson's nickname for Moses Henderson?
Chicken Lips

Hambone

Bonehead

Longshanks
5 Which aunt's house do the Watsons go to when it gets too cold?
Aunt Celia's

Aunt Robyn's

Aunt Sands's

Aunt Cydney's
6 What are Byron and Kenny supposed to do to the family car?
Scrape the ice off the windshield

Fill it with gas

Wash it

Replace its oil
7 Whose lips are frozen to the car's rear-view mirror?
Dad's

Kenny's

Joey's

Byron's
8 What do the neighbors call the Watson family?
The Weird Watsons

The Wacky Watsons

The Woeful Watsons

The Wailing Watsons
9 What does Wilona do when she gets angry?
Does not speak at all

Speaks in a heavy Southern accent

Speaks in a different language

Squeezes her eyes shut
10 During the frozen lips fiasco, Joey makes an allusion to which Greek mythological figure?
Celeste

Athena

Dionysus

Narcissus
11 Which poet's work is Kenny asked to read in front of Byron's class?
Walt Whitman's

Langston Hughes's

Maya Angelou's

Ezra Pound's
12 Who is the biggest fourth grade bully?
Larry Dunn

Rufus

Kenny

LJ Jones
13 Who is "king" of Clark Elementary?
Kenny

Buphead

Byron

Larry
14 What nickname does everyone give Kenny because he is so smart?
Egghead

Einstein

Poindexter

Edison
15 Aside from his smarts, what else does Kenny get teased for?
His skin color

His big feet

His lazy eye

His spiked hair
16 Who is Rufus's little brother?
Christopher

Carl

Cole

Cody
17 Kenny is surprised to hear that Rufus has done what before?
Won lottery money

Traveled abroad

Kissed a girl

Shot a gun
18 Rufus comes over every day to play with Kenny's toy...
trains.

cars.

dinosaurs.

jungle animals.
19 What is the name of the game that Rufus and Kenny play with Kenny's toys?
Good Guys vs. Bad Guys

Cowboys vs. Indians

Americans vs. Nazis

Dark vs. Light
20 Who used to steal Kenny's toys?
Cody

Joey

LJ Jones

Buphead
21 Rufus gets upset because Kenny laughs along with everyone else about his...
clothes.

accent.

glasses.

hair.
22 Who pushes Kenny to apologize for insulting Rufus?
Byron

Wilona

Daniel

Joey
23 Why does Byron say the garbage truck that comes in the morning really does?
Drops off crates full of welfare food

Picks up dead, frozen people from the street

Takes bullied kids to school

Clears up all the snow
24 Who steals Kenny's pair of gloves?
Rufus

Cody

Byron

Larry
25 What color are Kenny's gloves dyed after they are stolen?
Gray

Black

Red

Blue

How can you tell that Byron is having a good time on the road trip, even though he tries not to show it? You textual evidence in your answer

Byron smiles more, talks more, and intracts with the family.

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Dad was acting strangely towards the end of the Watson’s drive. What evidence from the text lets us know that?

It seems to be stuck, playing the same line from "Yakety Yak" over and over. Since the record player is broken, Daniel has started listening to "hillbilly music" on the radio. Daniel jokes that he has decided to change all of their names to...

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What does Byron remind Kenny of when he complains about having to take care of joetta

He reminds Kenny that he once was a crying little clown before, so he said to Kenny what goes around goes around.

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Answered by Aslan on 11/10/2019 2:00 AM

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