George Washington S Socks

George Washington’s Socks Short-Answer Questions Chapters 1-9

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

Chapters 1-3

1. What did the club plan to do at each of its meetings?

2. Why did Matt ask Katie to go camping with the club?

3. How had Hooter gotten his name?

4. How did Matt make Tony feel better about being so small?

5. What did the club decide to do even though they didn’t have their parents’

permission?

6. Why had the group wanted to camp out by the lake?

7. Why didn’t they camp out by the lake?

8. How did Katie convince the group to allow her to go along? 9. How did chapter 3 end?

Chapters 4-6

1. Who had told Tony the legend of the lake?

2. What was the legend of the lake?

3. What did the people who never came back and the ones who did come back

have in common?

4. What had happened to Grandpa’s friend, Adam Hibbs?

5. What was in the sky each time someone disappeared?

6. What had Grandpa thought was a clue to the mystery?

7. What did the kids notice about the moon?

8. Which member of the group left the others and disappeared?

9. What did the children see floating in the middle of the lake?

10.What did the kids do with it? 11.How did the weather change while the kids were in the boat?

12.Why was Matt so upset at the end of chapter 6?

Chapters 7-9

1. Who rescued Katie from the ice flow?

2. Who were the other people in his boat?

3. Why didn’t the men recognize the children’s home---Rumson, Nebraska?

4. Where had the children seen these men before?

5. What did the children conclude had happened to them?

6. What questions did they ask themselves?

7. Describe the uniforms of the soldiers.

8. Who did the officer ask to take care of the children?

9. Why was this so disturbing/surprising? 10.What did Katie have when she woke up?

11.Who was chosen to return it?

12.What mistake did the captain make about Matt at the end of the chapter?

13.What did Matt find shoved into his hands?

14.Why was the March to Trenton a silent one?

15.What happened to Adam Hibbs?