The Lemonade War

Reading Check questions are designed for in-class review on key plot points or for quick verbal or written assessments. Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quizzes create ideal summative assessments, and collectively function to convey a sense of the work’s tone and themes.

Chapters 1-2

Reading Check

1. What is the main character’s name?

2. What is the main character’s sister’s name?

3. What book does the main character’s sister read in Chapter 2?

4. Who is Scott Spencer?

Multiple Choice

1. In business, what is a “slump”?

A) an easy sale or trade

B) a down or sad feeling

C) a time without much activity

D) a tricky or complicated deal

2. What does the main character’s sister mention that causes him to drop a ball on his own nose?

A) a letter

B) lemonade

C) money

D) a girl

3. What does the main character’s sister say is her “weakest subject”?

A) math

B) spelling

C) logic

D) emotions

4. What mean word does the main character use to describe his sister in Chapter 2?

A) lazy

B) boring

C) freaky

D) crazy

Short-Answer Response

Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. Why does the main character feel like he is in a “slump”?

2. What kind of relationship does the main character have with his sister in Chapter 1?

3. Why is the main character upset about the new school year?

4. Why does the main character’s sister think that he needs help with his lemonade stand?

Chapters 3-5

Reading Check

1. How many cups of lemonade do Scott and Evan sell in Chapter 3?

2. When they run out of lemonade, what does Evan bring back from his house?

3. How does Jessie get to Megan’s house?

4. What does Evan think Jessie is trying to do when she asks him how much money his lemonade stand made?

Multiple Choice

1. How does Evan think Scott is behaving in Chapter 3?

A) selfishly

B) cautiously

C) aggressively

D) generously

2. How does Jessie’s lemonade stand compare to Evan and Scott’s?

A) It offers more kinds of lemonade.

B) It is more attractive.

C) It is smaller.

D) It is harder to see from the road.

3. Why does Jessie choose Megan to work with on her lemonade stand?

A) Megan is good at math.

B) Everyone else is on vacation.

C) Megan is Jessie’s only friend.

D) Jessie knows that Evan likes Megan.

4. Where is Jessie and Evan’s father?

A) He is deceased.

B) He has left their mother.

C) He is away at work.

D) He has gone to visit their grandmother.

Short-Answer Response

Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. Why does Evan want to set up his lemonade stand on the corner?

2. Why does Jessie end up feeling disappointed after Evan sees her lemonade stand?

3. When Jessie decides to get Megan to help with her lemonade stand, how do her actions show that Jessie does not give up easily?

4. What is the bet that Evan and Jessie make in Chapter 5?

Chapters 6-8

Reading Check

1. What business term does Jessie explain to Megan in Chapter 6?

2. Who is Evan’s last customer when he sells lemonade in the town square?

3. What is written on the slips of paper that Jessie keeps in her secret lock box?

4. Who writes Jessie a note that says, “You’re a really nice person and you have good

ideas all the time”?

Multiple Choice

1. What confuses Jessie about Megan and Carly?

A) the way they dress alike

B) the vocabulary they use

C) the way their words don’t match their behavior

D) the looks they give one another

2. Why do the boys make so much money in Chapter 6?

A) larger servings

B) increased prices

C) customer goodwill

D) better lemonade

3. Why does Evan have to stop selling lemonade in the town square?

A) He does not have a permit.

B) He runs out of ingredients.

C) It starts to rain hard.

D) There are too many other lemonade stands nearby.

4. In Chapter 8, what does Jessie realize is making it so hard for her to earn enough money to beat Evan?

A) Evan is stealing money from her lock box.

B) Her profit margin is too small.

C) She is making lemonade that is too sour.

D) Megan is not working hard enough.

Short-Answer Response

Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. What do the kids at school pretend that “WHJ” stands for, and what does it really stand for?

2. In Chapter 7, how does Evan solve the math problem of how many cups of lemonade he needs to sell each day?

3. Why does Jessie ask Megan to make all of the phone calls to the other girls in Chapter 8?

4. Why does Jessie tell Megan that she is donating her profits to the Animal Rescue League?

Chapters 9-11

Reading Check

1. In business, what do you call a “method of bargaining so that you can reach an agreement”?

2. Why does Jessie sneak into Evan’s room?

3. When her mother asks Jessie how she feels about Evan in Chapter 10, what does Jessie say?

4. What household rule does Evan break in Chapter 11?

Multiple Choice

1. Where did Jessie hear the name “Grumpminster Fink”?

A) from the mean girls in second grade

B) on the TV show she used to watch with Evan

C) in a childhood story Evan used to tell her

D) from her father, when he was teasing her

2. What dishonest thing is Jessie tempted to do in Chapter 10?

A) tell people that Evan’s lemonade is not homemade

B) count Megan’s money as part of her own total

C) ask her mother for free lemonade ingredients

D) steal some of Evan’s lemonade money

3. What does Jessie’s mother tell her will help her and Evan stop fighting?

A) ending their lemonade war

B) being more polite to each other

C) spending more time doing activities together

D) learning to understand each other’s feelings

4. By the time Evan counts Jessie’s money in Chapter 11, how much money does she have?

A) $115

B) $149

C) $176

D) $208

Short-Answer Response

Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. What does Jessie try to give Evan advice about when she gets home in Chapter 9?

2. What does Jessie do to ruin Evan’s lemonade in Chapter 10?

3. What evidence does Evan find that makes him think Jessie is the one who ruined his lemonade?

4. Why does Evan think about Megan when he finds out how much money Jessie has in Chapter 11?

Chapters 12-14

Reading Check

1. Why doesn’t Jessie swim when she goes to the beach with Megan’s family?

2. What does Evan have in his pocket when he is playing basketball in Chapter 13?

3. How does Jessie feel when Evan claims to not have any money in Chapter 14?

4. What do Evan, Jessie, and their mother watch together in Chapter 14?

Multiple Choice

1. What does Megan do at the beach that Jessie does not want to do?

A) build sandcastles

B) eat hot dogs

C) play volleyball

D) read a book

2. When Evan finishes swimming at Jack’s house, what does he discover has happened?

A) His mother has called to tell him to come home.

B) Jessie’s money is missing.

C) Megan has come over to see Evan.

D) Scott has told Jack about the lemonade war.

3. What causes Jessie to physically attack Evan in Chapter 14?

A) He tells her that he hopes she will fail fourth grade.

B) He tells her that Megan is only pretending to be her friend.

C) He tells her about taking her money and losing it.

D) He tells her that their father thought she was weird.

4. How do Jessie and Evan get Megan’s money back?

A) They win a contest.

B) They sell more lemonade.

C) They borrow it from their mother.

D) They steal it back from Scott.

Short-Answer Response

Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. How does Jessie feel when she is riding home in the car with Megan’s family at the end of Chapter 12?

2. How does Evan feel while he is trying to play basketball in Chapter 13?

3. Why is Chapter 14 titled “Reconciliation”?

4. How do the events of Chapter 14 show that Jessie and Evan’s mother was right about how they could get along better?