George Washington’s Socks

Short-Answer Questions

Chapters 10-18

Answer each of the following questions using complete questions and details from the novel to help support and explain your answer.

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Chapters 19-21

1. What happened when Matt threw the stick at the Hessians?

2. What did Hooter have in his pocket that fascinated the Hessians?

3. Why did Adam Hibbs’ grandfather decide to stay in the 1700’s?

4. What happened to the boat?

5. What problem did the kids have even if they found the boat?

6. How did Hooter help the Hessian soldier whose leg was bleeding?

7. What happened to Katie while everyone was watching the beaver?

8. Who rescued Katie?

9. What happened to Gustav?

10. Why did the Americans think the kids were Tories?

11. What had one of the American soldiers found in the snow on the march back?

12. What did Matt tell George Washington?

13. What promise did Washington make?

14. Who was Hooter talking about when he said, “He was good you know, Matt. I don’t care what they say, he was good.”?

15. What had George Washington given to Katie?

16. Who was the first person to find the boat?

17. How as the name Emit Levart a clue?

18. What was wrong about the boat?

19. What did the boat do when Katie said she wanted to go home?

20. What did George Washington think about the soldier who told him he had seen the kids disappear?

Chapters 22-23

1. In chapter 22 the children figured out part of the magic of the boat. What was it?

2. What paper was floating in the water?

3. Why did everyone laugh with relief when they saw it?

4. How did Matt convince Katie not to tell their parents what had happened?

5. What did they do with the boat?

6. What did Matt want to keep from his adventure and what did he do with them?

7. What were they going to do with George Washington’s socks at first?

8. Who ended up with George Washington’s socks?

9. What did that person want to do with them?

10. What did Katie want in return for the socks?

11. What did Katie do at the dinner table that she had promised not to do?

12. What did her parents think?