Navigating Early

1.

1 point

On Jack’s first day at the academy, he was reminded of the time when he

learned his mother had been killed in a car-train accident.

was suspended three days from school for cheating on a test.

accidentally shot his own dog while hunting squirrels with his brother.

built a soap-box derby car and left it out in the rain.

2.

1 point

What did Jack learn was part of Early’s regular routine?

Whenever it rained, he listened to Billie Holiday.

If the Red Sox lost, he wouldn’t have any dessert.

He wore his bright, red sweater on Mondays.

Every Sunday morning, he rode his bike to the quarry.

3.

1 point

What happened on the morning of the regatta?

Jack woke up with a rash that turned out to be chickenpox.

Jack was disqualified before the competition even began.

Jack received a telegram telling him that his father wasn’t coming.

Jack’s roommate started a fire when he tossed a cigar into the trash can.

4.

1 point

As the boys prepared to leave on their quest, Early revealed that

his family owned a cabin on the Appalachian Trail.

he had made up the story about the timber rattlesnake.

Mr. Blane, the new math teacher, was his uncle.

Fish, the legendary school hero, was his brother.

5.

1 point

The woodsmen on the barge forced Jack and Early to

load heavy barrels of black powder onto a flatbed truck.

sing the Morton Hill Academy school song.

clean and gut about a hundred river catfish and pack them in salt brine.

remove a section of railroad track so a train would derail.

6.

1 point

What did the outfitter Gunnar tell Jack and Early about his past?

He had been a Rough Rider with Teddy Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War.

He was nearly deaf by a childhood case of scarlet fever.

He had once been a fighter who killed a man in the ring.

His wife and son had both been killed in a fire.

7.

1 point

Whom did the boys encounter while trudging through the forest in the rain?

a 12 year old boy who was running away from home with his golden retriever.

a deranged old man who told the boys he was General John Pershing.

a 100 year old woman who mistook Jack for her long-lost son.

a group of boy scouts trying to earn their wilderness merit badges.

8.

1 point

What did the boys find in a cavern behind the waterfall?

the skeleton of a boy who had been shot to death fifty years earlier.

the rotting carcass of an eight-foot-tall black bear.

a Revolutionary War-era sword in a fancy, decorated scabbard.

an old wooden chest filled with coins dating from the early 1800s.

9.

1 point

What did Jack do while he and Early were back at the covered bridge?

He used Early’s pocketknife to carve his initials on a bridge railing.

He accused Early of stealing his missing navigator ring.

He set up his Kodak Brownie camera to take a picture of himself and Early.

He jumped into the river to retrieve the dog tags Early had thrown in.

10.

1 point

After he and Early were back at the academy, Jack learned that

Colonel Johannsen, the Civil War “hero,” had actually been a traitor.

Miss B., the school librarian, was Gunnar’s old sweetheart.

Early and Fisher were not really brothers but first cousins.

Mr. Blane, the math teacher, had been forced to resign in disgrace.