Clean Getaway

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-book review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. What best describes the reason that G’ma dines and dashes after stopping in the DamnYankees diner?

A) She wanted to get revenge for the last time that she was there.

B) She wanted to enact retribution for their racist treatment of her and Scoob.

C) She wanted to avoid paying because she did not have enough money.

D) She wanted to give Scoob some consolation since he was so affected by the number of people staring at them.

2. What best describes the reason that Scoob is grateful that G’ma doesn’t ask any follow-up questions when he describes his fight with Bryce?

A) He’s tired of hearing from adults about his bad behavior.

B) He’s afraid that she will stop loving him and say that his father is right.

C) He doesn’t want to get emotional.

D) He hopes that she will not mention it again.

3. Why weren’t G’ma and G’pop able to make it to the top of Bunker Tower during their original trip?

A) Their RV broke down.

B) G’ma hadn’t yet heard of it.

C) It would’ve been dangerous for G’pop.

D) It wasn’t built yet.

4. What is Scoob referring to when he wonders if there’s “such a thing as life pollution” (Chapter 4)?

A) He’s thinking about how much he doesn’t know about G’pop.

B) He wonders what G’ma isn’t telling him about this road trip.

C) He’s thinking about how his father doesn’t trust him.

D) He wonders if he’s ever going to get rid of his reputation as a troublemaker.

5. What does the map that Scoob annotates best symbolize?

A) It symbolizes how far he’s come since leaving home.

B) It symbolizes how G’ma’s past is eventually going to catch up with her.

C) It symbolizes how hard it is to make a clean getaway.

D) It symbolizes how his grandma’s past and his present are intertwined.

6. How is G’ma’s ability to build a fire an example of foreshadowing?

A) It echoes the path of destruction that G’ma feels she has left in her wake.

B) It is a reminder to Scoob that there’s much about his G’ma that he doesn’t know.

C) It foreshadows the fact that their trip will come crashing down.

D) It precedes G’ma’s story about the fires that were set at Martin Luther King’s house during the Civil Rights movement.

7. What might G’ma mostly likely be referring to when she says it’s “[w]ild […] how easy it can be to do the wrong thing” (Chapter 10)?

A) She’s referring to her own choices to not come clean when Jimmy is arrested.

B) She’s referring to her decision to kidnap Scoob.

C) She’s referring to her propensity for stealing.

D) She’s referring to her decision to turn around and go back to Atlanta with G’pop the first time.

8. How might Scoob likely look back on his day at Six Flags with G’ma?

A) He’ll remember it as the beginning of the end.

B He’ll remember it as a place where society has changed because he was allowed into the park when his grandfather would not have been.

C) He’ll remember it as a day when he was able to have pure fun with the G’ma he’s always known.

D) He’ll remember it as the last time he saw her.

9. What is significant about Scoob’s choice of wood for G’ma’s urn?

A) It is made from the same wood as his treehouse at her old house.

B) It is made from redwood to echo her choice to steal a ruby ring.

C) It is made from the same tree that G’pop proposed to her under.

D) It is made from the same wood as her treasure box.

10. Why does Scoob want to drive all the way to Mexico with his dad rather than fly?

A) He wants to share his adventure with G’ma with his father.

B) He wants to stop along the way at all the places that G’ma didn’t get to.

C) He wants to get a sense of closure from the journey.

D) He wants his father to learn more about G’pop.

Long Answer

Compose a response of 2-3 sentences, incorporating text details to support your response.

1. Why is the Green Book so significant in this novel?

2. Why might stories of Emmett Till, Ruby Bridges, G’pop, and the four little girls killed in the bombing in 1963 particularly resonate with Scoob? Choose one and explain.