Lunch Money Summer Reading Questions
Directions: Answer all these questions on your own notebook paper. Please make sure you number your
answers, and skip a line between each answer on your paper. Write your answers in complete sentences.
Make sure you support all your answers with evidence!
Chapter 1: Talent
1. Who is the main character? List two things you know about him from the first chapter.
2. Who are Ross and Edward?
3. What are 2 ways Greg has made money in the past?
4. What is Greg’s ultimate goal in life?
Chapter 2: Quarters
1. What happened to Greg’s lunch?
2. Who is Mrs. McCormick?
3. Why is this chapter called “Quarters”?
Chapter 3: The Perfect Hammer
1. Why is Greg’s mom worried when he asks for her credit card?
2. What is the first toy Greg sells at school?
3. Why does Greg have to go to the principal’s office?
4. What new idea does Greg have when he leaves Mrs. Davenport’s office?
Chapter 4: Units
1. What is Greg now selling at school instead of toys?
2. Who are Creon, Eeon, and Leon?
3. What does Ted give Greg that makes him so worried?
4. Who is Maura Shaw?
Chapter 5: The Girl Across the Street
1. Why do you think the girl across the street got a Big Wheels too?
2. Who is the girl across the street?
3. How would you describe Greg and Maura’s relationship?
Chapter 6: Sour Business
1. How did Maura interfere with Greg’s first business?
2. What did Maura start selling after lemonade?
3. Who does she sell her potholders to after Timmy’s mom?
4. Why did Greg change his mind about Maura being “brainless?”
Chapter 7: Order and Chaos
1. How is room 27 different than the rest of the school?
2. What does Maura do when Greg rips up her books?
3. Why doesn’t Mr. Z do anything when Maura hits Greg?
4. What does Maura do that surprises Greg?
Chapter 8: Two Down
1. What does Maura think is wrong with Greg’s book?
2. Why does Mr. Z think Greg should not be upset with Maura?
3. What does Mr. Z want Greg to do?
4. What happens when Greg gets angry?
Chapter 9: Apologies
1. What does Greg tell Mr. Z he is afraid of?
2. Why does Mr. Z think Greg and Maura keep fighting?
3. What did Mr. Z want to be before he became a teacher?
4. Why does Mr. Z think Maura copied Greg’s idea?
Chapter 10: Something Fishy
1. Who seems to care the most about Greg’s face?
2. Why does Maura call Greg?
Chapter 11: Notes
1. Why can’t Greg daydream in Social Studies class?
2. Who passes Greg a note in class? Why?
Chapter 12: A Look
1. What did Maura want to show Greg after class?
2. What is Greg then worried about?
3. Why doesn’t Greg get to tell Maura what he thinks about her comic?
4. What does Greg keep thinking about after he leaves the girls?
Chapter 13: Lockout
1. Why does Greg think he’s been called to the principal’s office?
2. What is Mrs. Davenport’s idea to prevent Greg and Maura from fighting more?
3. What does Mrs. Davenport show Greg that she is very upset about?
4. What does Greg ask Mr. Z as they’re walking to class?
Chapter 14: Seventy-Five Percent of Nothing
1. What does Greg do that surprises Maura?
2. What is the deal Greg and Maura work out with their comics?
3. What does Mr. Z say to Maura about their visit to the principal’s office the day before?
Chapter 15: Lessons
1. What does Greg’s family do every Friday night?
2. Why did Maura come to Greg’s house?
3. What were Maura and Greg thinking about while they drew?
Chapter 16: Art and Money
1. Why does Greg not want Ross and Edward around while Maura is there?
2. How are Greg’s feelings for Maura changing?
3. Why did Maura actually make the pot holders?
Chapter 17: Selling
1. What did Mrs. Davenport’s announcement say about comic books?
2. What does Maura begin noticing around school?
Chapter 18: Complicated
1. Why do Greg and Maura visit Mr. Z?
2. What plan do they come up with to be able to sell their comic books?
Chapter 19: Planning
1. How do Greg and Maura’s parents feel about their going to the School Committee meeting?
2. How is Mr. Z feeling about going to the meeting?
Chapter 20: Agendas
1. What happens between Mr. Z and Mrs. Davenport?
Chapter 21: The Question of Money
1. How is Greg feeling about going to the School Committee meeting?
2. How are Greg’s feelings about money changing?
Chapter 22: New Business
1. Explain what Greg and Maura’s comic book club is.
2. What would Greg and Maura do with the money they make in their comic book club?
3. Why does Mr. Z ask the adults in the room if they’ve ever read comics?
Chapter 23: The Best Interests of the School
1. Why did Mrs. Davenport not like comic books before reading the ones that were sent to her?
2. Why does Mr. Z think it’s ok for Greg and Maura to continue selling comic books?
3. What is the solution they come up with so everyone can sell things they make at school?
Chapter 24: Success
1. Who gave the comics to Mrs. Davenport?
2. What was the School Committee’s decision about Chunky Comics?