The Dirty, Disgusting, Diseased
Comprehension Questions
The
(Enter answers on the line
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_______ 1. Jerry’s skin cancers were caused by
the pond water.
(T)rue or (F)alse
_______ 2. Jerry did not compare himself to:
a. Neil
Armstrong
b. A pirate
c. A fisherman
d. Elvis Presley
_______ 3.
The vehicle Jerry encountered was:
a. farmer
Vandermollen’s tractor
b. a
c. The
greens-keeper’s tractor
d. Teenager’s OTV
________ 4.
Jean Shepherd and Jerry Woodfill attended high school
together.
(T)rue or (F)alse.
________ 5.
The third hole pond was:
a. ideal for swimming.
b. a winter ice hockey rink.
c. used to water the green grass.
d. a children’s
wading pool.
________ 6. What was good about retrieving
balls?
a. The sweet
smell of pond water.
b. The interesting aquatic life.
c. The diseases one
might catch.
d. The valuable golf
balls recovered.
________ 7. What
was the ball bag not like?
a. a
hangman’s noose
b. a laundry sack
c. Neil Armstrong’s space suit pocket
d. Superman’s red cape
________ 8. Creek water did not include:
a. detergent
b. urine
c. feces
d. napalm
_________ 9.
The balls found were classed as:
a. gimmes
b. muddies
c. practice range dregs
d.
all of the above
________ 10. What diseases were
a threat?
a. Malaria
b.
Encephalitis
c.
Dengue Fever
d. the golf bug
_________ 11.What increased the
risk/reward ratio?
a. a sickle-swinging-greens-keeper
b. mosquitoes
c. microscopic pond contagion
d. all of the above
_________ 12.
What lowered the risk/reward ratio?
a. lack of watch dogs
b. no night watchmen
c. no get-away car needed
d. blood-sucking-leaches
_________ 13.
What movie is like the account?
a. Rebecca of Sunny Brook Farm
b. Lassie
c. Creature From the
Black Lagoon
d. It’s a Wonderful Life
_________ 14.
Jerry is an amateur expert on skin cancer.
(T)rue or (F)alse
_________ 15.
Jerry risked the pond because?
a it was too dark to
see him
b. he knew exactly where it was
c. the pond was near his home
d. all of the above
_________ 16.
Why did balls end up in the pond?
a. squirrels put them there.
b. the greens-keeper planted them
to catch golf ball-thieves
c. duffers (lousy golfers) hit bad shots
d. none of the above
_________ 17. How did Jerry seine for balls?
a. with a cat-fish net
b. using an underwater
rake
c. scuba diving
d. using his hand like
a rake
_________ 18. How did Jerry deal with the odor?
a. wore an
Army-surplus gas mask
b. by breathing through
his mouth
c. vomiting to empty
his stomach
d. wearing a perfumed painter’s mask
_________ 19. Jerry escaped by:
a. going unseen under water
b. hiding in his ball-bag
c. crawling behind the green
d. asking the greens-keeper if he’d
seen Jerry’s lost dog
_________ 20. The bad morning odor was?
a. the
b. marauding nocturnal skunks
c. the golf course “out-house”
d. the nocturnal green watering
The Dirty,
Disgusting, and Diseased Vocabulary List
Word Synonym
1. dermatologist skin
doctor
2. encapsulating enclosing
- proactive planning
ahead
- devotee follower
- illicit wrongful
- reclamation recovery, restoration
7. dearth shortage
8. affluent wealthy
- proletarian working-class
- pristine new,
unblemished
- dregs residue, sludge
- pedigree origin, heritage
- matriculated enrolled
- providence divine guidance
- host multitude,
large group
- spoils loot
- marauders pirates, looters
- vagrant hobo,
tramp, street person
- host multitude,
large number
- interloper invader, intruder
trespasser
- predisposed prepared, ready
- excrement waste, fasces
- fetid fowl smelling
- tepid lukewarm
- covertly secretly
- quagmire swamp, bog, slough
- regolith covering substance
- myriad immense number
- excommunicated cast out of, removed, purged
- incorrigible rebellious
- expletives curse words
- miscreants villains, wrongdoers
- seining netlike catching
- clandestine secretive
- coffers treasure chest,
strong box