The Across
the Tracks Girl Comprehension
Questions
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_______ 1. Jerry’s girlfriend was a neighbor.
(T)rue or (F)alse
_______ 2. Jerry’s Mother thought “mixed dating” was? ______
a. dating a girl across the tracks
b. dating a Catholic
or Democrat
c. dating someone from
another school
d. dating someone of a different nationality
_______ 3.
Jerry was repulsed by a classmate’s____?
a. Belching
b. Vomiting
c. Spitting
d. Boogering
________ 4.
One of the girls who captured Jerry was:
a. morbidly obese
b. a junior lady wrestler
c. Mary Poppins
d. 13 years old, she’d failed
twice
________ 5.
Jerry tried to discover whether a girl liked him by _______.
a. asking his friends to ask her
b. having his mother call her mother
c. counting the times she lined up for lunch near him
d. secretly watching her reflection in a mirror-like
device
________ 6. Why did Jerry and his friends
receive a punishment?
a. They had
been tardy returning from recess.
b. Someone had seen them harm girls on the
playground..
c. They had
posted inappropriate graffiti in the teachers’ lounge.
d. A Whoopy Cushion had been placed in the
teacher’s chair.
________ 7. How
did Jerry discover his teacher was bluffing?
a. The knuckle rap didn’t hurt very much.
b.
His friends let out frightening unnatural screams.
c. He knew corporal punishment was forbidden in
1950s grade schools.
d. An eyelid flickered.
________ 8. Why
did Jerry survive the slapping blow inflicted on him by his teacher?
a. He’d seen
a wrestling match where the combatants stiffened their bodies.
b. He used his Geography Book as a shield.
c. He was a
junior black-belt in Karate.
d. His limp
body was held in place by his desk.
_________ 9.
With what did Jerry compare the punishment?
a. The
b. A
hangman’s noose.
c. A guillotine.
d. A mouse-trap
________ 10. What did the teacher additionally
do to prevent classroom disorder?
a. Assigned one boy
to “tell-on” talking girls and one boy
to tattle on boys. .
b. Turned all
the chairs around to spy on students from behind for mischief. .
c. Used program THE SHADOW KNOWS to frighten the
class into proper behavior.
d. Assigned seating so
that boys sat beside
girls in adjacent rows
_________ 11.
What were the “raps of correction?”
a. Slang for (w)rappings of ribbon about the wrists
in “handcuff” fashion for punishment
b. Blows to
the knuckles
c. A snare-drum beat
made famous by a prison band
d. Gentle pats
administered by a parent for “Fs” in conduct
_________ 12.
Sam Sneed was a ______.
a. Golfer
b. Rock’n
Roll lead singer
c. Famous
radio star of a detective series
d.
A cartoon character akin to a fox who always sneezed
_________ 13.
What did Jerry NOT think about his punishment?
a. It was just.
b. The girls’
gang, he deemed
as the “She Devils,” should have been punished instead.
c. The verdict
of the school honor court, a jury of his peers, was unjust.
d. The
teacher had chosen an altogether humane punishment.
_________ 14.
What punishment did
Jerry equate to the teacher’s?
a. water torture
b. whipping
c. stitching an open wound
d. paddling
_________ 15.
Jerry yelled aloud
because _______.
a the pain was
severe
b. he wanted his
friends to think the blows hurt
c. yelling before he
was struck might cause his teacher to
ease the blows
d. his stomach cramped as a result of the school lunch he
ate before recess
_________ 16.
Why was Jerry slapped by his teacher?
a. She was a
robust woman practicing Martial Arts.
b. Jerry was
mistaken for his friend, Eddie Catchet, the actual talker.
c. Jerry’s
talking in class required punishment.
d. The teacher
missed her coffee that morning.
_________ 17. Who of the listed cowboy actors below
reminded Jerry
of the punishment ?
a. Tom Mix
b. Hopalong Cassidy.
c. Lash LaRue
d. Roy Rogers
_________ 18. What evil criminal did the teacher
remind Jerry of?
a. John Dillinger
b. Goldfinger
c. The
d. Charles Manson
_________ 19. Jerry's plan for revenge upon the girl gang was
to…
a. lying that the girls were seen smoking behind
the janitor’s shed
b.
put a fake grass snake in their lunch sacks
c.
incarcerate them with “chicken-wire” inside the playground jungle-gym.
d.
put chewing gum on their desk seat.
_________ 20.
To what did Jerry compare a student’s act of “booger- removal?” ____.
a. a surgical
procedure requiring extreme dexterity.
b. a doctor’s
prostate examination
c. removing a scab
from a sore
d. mining with a
screw-driver.
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