Vocabulary activity for Chapter 3 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 sat there at the bottom of the wastebasket until the _____ feeling in his head stopped.
intacty
bruisy
whirly
When Ralph was sure that he was battered but _____ he examined the motorcycle.
exhausted
intact
remorseful
It was known that trash in the hotel was emptied into an _____.
swieback
incinerator
bruise
Ralph felt sad and _____ thinking about his Uncle Victor getting dumped out with the trash.
remorseful
whirled
bruised
He should have been content to stay home without _____ out into the world.
venturing
intacting
bruising
_____ and defeated, Ralph dropped the core and decided that he might as well be thrown out with the trash on a full stomach as an empty one.
Bruised
remorseful
intact
It was much better than the damp _____ crumbs the last guests had left behind.
incinerator
zwieback
venture
It embarrassed him to be seen in such a _____.
exhaustion
predicament
venture
It kept Ralph tossing and turning behind the apple core until, stuffed and _____, he finally fell asleep.