The Mouse and the Motorcycle

Word Bank
antimacassar	bellboy	chickadee	chomping
croquet	inn	management	perplexed
quaint	relenting	washbasin

Vocabulary activity for Chapter 1 of The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary!

Here are some exerts from the story. Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word. When you have answered all of the questions, click the "Check Answer" button. A box will pop-up with your score. Do not close until your score is printed or reviewed by your teacher.

He entered room 215 of the Mountain View _____. (HINT: Is it common or proper?)
1. Bellboy
2. Inn
3. Perplex
He was Matt, sixty if he was a day, who at the moment was the _____.
1. management
2. bellboy
3. washbasin
Matt sometimes prevented children from hitting one another with _____ mallets on the lawn behind the hotel.
1. quaint
2. croquet
3. chickadee
Outside a chipmunk chattered in a pine tree and a _____ whistled fee-bee-bee.
1. relent
2. antimacassar
3. chickadee
Some thought it was charming and _____, so quiet and restful.
1. bellboy
2. washbasin
3. quaint
"The _____ wouldn't stand for mice."
1. perplex
2. management
3. antimacassar
One chair had a _____ on its back.
1. relent
2. antimacassar
3. bellboy
The _____ and towel racks sat in the corner of the room.
1. quaint
2. washbasin
3. chickadee
His mother smiled, _____.
1. relenting
2. quainting
3. perplexing
He ate the apple noisily in big _____ bites, and then laid the core on the bedside table between the lamp and the telephone.
1. chomping
2. inning
3. bellboying
She dropped it with a thunk into the metal wastebasket beside the table as she gave several quick little sniffs of the air and said, looking _____, "I don't care what the bellboy said. I'm sure this hotel has mice."
1. quainted
2. chomped
3. perplexed