Each morning at school, students will be asked a trivia question about the previous night’s chapter.  Students’ names will be drawn for prizes.  Questions will be posted here so you can discuss the answers as a family as well!

Chapter 1:  What’s on the shelf on one side of the newstand?  There are 5 things... you needed 3 things to have the correct answer!   second hand radio, kleenex, matchers, cash register, alarm clock

Chapter 2:  How can you tell the temperature with a cricket?  count the number of chirps in a minute: divide by 4: add 40

Chapter 3:  Where is Chester Cricket from? Connecticut

Chapter 4: Who is Harry Cat’s best friend?  Tucker Mouse

Chapter 5:  Where does Mario go to find a cricket house? Chinatown

Chapter 6:  The cricket house that Mario selects look like a minature... what?  a pagoda

Chapter 7:  What does Tucker want to use for sheets and a blanket in the pagoda? dollar bills

Chapter 8:  Who notices that Harry Cat sometimes prowled thru the station and was busier than usual that night?  Paul, the conductor

Chapter 9:  What is Sai Fong’s solution to Chester’s money eating problem? mulberry leaves

Chapter 10:  Tucker Mouse served chocolate from what two candy bars at the dinner party?  Hershey’s and Oh Henry

Chapter 11:  Who says, “No cricketer who plays “Torna a Surrento” so beautifully could possibly start a fire”?  Mama Bellini   

Chapter 12:  After hearing Chester play, Mr. Smedley writes a letter to the music editor of what publication?  The New York Times

Chapter 13:  How many people were late to work the first morning Chester played for the public?  783

Chapter 14:  Who says, “You don’t feel like playing?  That’s like the sun saying, I don’t feel like shining?” Tucker Mouse

Chapter 15:  How does Mario know that Chester is gone for good and won’t come back? He notices the bell is gone.