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Ramona Quimby, Age 8

After reading the assigned chapters of Ramona Quimby Age 8, please answer the following questions in complete sentences and put the page number that you found the answer.

Chapters 1 and 2

1. How did Ramona feel about getting to ride the bus to school by herself?

2. Why was Mr. Quimby going back to college?

3. What did Mr. Quimby hope to teach after college?

4. How did Ramona feel about the pink eraser her father gave her?

5. What did Danny do as he sat behind Ramona on the bus?

6. What did Danny do with Ramona's new pink eraser before school?

7. What made Ramona think that Mrs. Whaley wasn't a fussy teacher?

8. What did Ramona think was the bad part of 3rd grade?

9. What did Willa Jean want Ramona to be when they played dress up?

10. What name did Willa Jean have for her friend, Bruce?

11. How did Ramona feel about having to play with Willa Jean?

12. How did Ramona get out of playing with Bruce and Willa Jean?

Chapters 3 and 4

1. What did Ramona always add after her signature?

2. What were Ramona and her father trying to draw?

3. How did 3rd graders at Ramona’s school crack hard-boiled eggs?

4. Why did Mrs. Quimby buy tongue instead of regular meat?

5. What did Ramona ask her mother to pack in her lunch?

6. What did Ramona decide to do that made her feel like a real person again?

7. Why did Beezus come home tired and grouchy from her sleepover?

8. How did Ramona feel about having some alone time with her mother in the mornings?

9. What did Ramona hear Mrs. Whaley say about her in the office?

10. What punishment did Mr. Quimby give the girls for complaining about the tongue for dinner?

11. What happened when Ramona tried to open her egg?

Chapters 5 and 6

1. Why were Ramona and Beezus acting as good as they could on Sunday morning?

2. Did Mr. and Mrs. Quimby forget about the girls’ punishment?

3. Why didn’t Ramona volunteer to answer questions at school anymore?

4. How did Ramona’s father make her feel better about being called “egg head”?

5. What were the only parts of school that Ramona liked?

6. What was wrong with the Quimby’s car?

7. What did Ramona do in class that made her feel embarrassed?

8. How did Ramona’s mom get to the school to pick up Ramona when she was sick?

9. Why did the fizzy drink that Ramona’s mom gave her when she was sick surprise her?

10. How did Ramona feel about her teacher calling her a nuisance?

Chapters 7-9

1. What did Ramona discover her dad had left for her when she woke up?

2. What did Ramona think all the kids would say after they finished their lunches?

3. Why wouldn’t Ramona’s mother let her have butter on her toast?

4. What did Mr. Quimby do to try and cheer his family up on a rainy Sunday?

5. Why did the man at Whopperburger pay for the Quimby’s meal?

6. Why was Ramona disappointed when her father came home?

7. What did Sara bring Ramona from school?

8. Why wouldn’t Mrs. Quimby let Beezus spend the night at Mary Jane’s?

9. Why didn’t Ramona want to make her book report too interesting?

10. How did Ramona decide to sell her book for the book report?

11. How did Ramona feel about the letter from Yard Ape?

12. How did Ramona feel after talking with Mrs. Whaley about calling her a nuisance and a show-off?