Name ___________________________
RCQ Chapter 1
Answer each question using complete sentences.
Johnny Tremain
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____/5 pts
1. With whom does Johnny live? Why?
2. In what trade is Johnny being trained?
3. What historical figure and character in the novel asks Mr. Lapham to make a sugar basin? Why
does he choose Mr. Lapham to make the sugar basin?
4. There is an allusion to a wealthy family to whom Johnny may be related. Who is this family and
why is this fact mentioned?
5. In a conversation with Cilla, Johnny relates the story of his mother and how he came to be in
possession of the cup. What does the reader learn from that story?
RCQ Chapter 2
Answer each question using complete sentences.
_____/5 pts
1. What occupation do Mr. Lapham and Paul Revere both share? How are they different as masters
of that profession?
2. Who are Dove and Dusty, and why does Johnny boss them around?
3. Describe and characterize the relationship between Johnny and Dove.
4. In order for Johnny to finish the sugar basin in time, he must disobey Mr. Lapham and break a
law. He must also have the help of other members of the house. Describe what he does.
Name ___________________________
Johnny Tremain
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5. What happens to Johnny’s hand, and how does it happen?
RCQ Chapter 3
Answer each question using complete sentences.
_____/5 pts
1. What is Johnny’s attitude when he asks for work? What is the masters’ first reaction to Johnny?
What is the ultimate outcome and why?
2. Who is Mr. Tweedle?
3. What is the name of the newspaper where Johnny meets Rab, and what does Johnny know about
the newspaper?
4. Johnny seeks work in the accounting office of John Hancock. After adding a few sums for Mr.
Hancock, Mr. Hancock seems to be ready to offer Johnny work. What happens to change Mr.
Hancock’s mind?
5. Where does Johnny fall asleep? Before he falls asleep, what does he decide to do the next
morning?
Name ___________________________
RCQ Chapter 4
Johnny Tremain
______/5 pts
Answer each question using complete sentences.
1. How is Johnny accepted on his first visit to Merchant Lyte’s?
2. What accusation does Merchant Lyte make towards Johnny?
3. What punishment does Merchant Lyte request for Johnny’s crime?
4. Who are the Sons of Liberty and what significance do they have at this point in the story?
5. In court, who testifies and saves Johnny? What is the testimony?
RCQ Chapter 5
Answer each question using complete sentences.
1. How is Johnny able to begin a new life?
2. Who is Goblin?
3. Where does Johnny live while working at his new job?
____/5 pts
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Name ___________________________
Johnny Tremain
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4. Johnny has a particular fault within himself in which he is quite disappointed. State the fault and
give an example of how Johnny demonstrates it.
5. Rab questions Johnny, “Why do you go out of your way to make bad feelings?” What valuable
lesson does Johnny learn from Rab? How does the lesson pay off for Johnny when he visits Sam
Adams?
RCQ Chapter 6
Answer each question using complete sentences.
_____/5 pts
1. Why do the colonists protest the tea tax?
2. What is the name of the group that will meet to discuss the current problems with the tea ships?
How many people are in the group?
3. Mr. Lyte is excluded from those who get the message about the meeting. Why is this unusual?
4. Mr. Lapham is a Tory. Who/what are the Tories?
5. Why is Rab upset when he learns that Dove is stealing tea?
Name ___________________________
Johnny Tremain
Chapter 7
Answer each question using complete sentences.
_____/5 pts
1. How do the British react to the Boston Tea Party? What effect does the punishment have on the
thirteen colonies?
2. What will happen to the members of the Observers’ Club if their names are known?
3. How does Johnny create a connection with the British medical man, and how may this
connection prove to be important?
4. Of whom is Johnny jealous and why? What occasion sparks the jealousy?
5. Why does Dove think that he and Johnny might be friends now?
RCQ Chapter 8
Answer each question using complete sentences.
______/5 pts
1. Whose house is broken into? How does the family escape?
2. Where does Cilla want to go? Why does she want to go there? Who goes with her?
3. What does Johnny find in the Lyte’s house that helps him? How does it help?
4. What happens to Rab when he meets the farmer who sells guns to Minute Men?
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Name ___________________________
Johnny Tremain
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5. What is the significance of the apple Cilla gives Johnny?
RCQ Chapter 9
Answer each question using complete sentences.
_____/5 pts
1. Describe the spy system organized by Paul Revere.
2. How do Johnny and Rab get Dove to reveal the British military secrets? What do they learn?
3. Who is Pumpkin and what does he tell Johnny that he wants to do?
4. How does Johnny get a musket for Rab?
5. What eventually happens to Pumpkin? What effect does this have on Johnny’s image of himself?
Name ___________________________
Johnny Tremain
RCQ Chapter 10
Answer each question using complete sentences.
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_____/5 pts
1. What does Paul Revere decide to do in light of the confusing situation the British are presenting,
and how does he plan to do it?
2. How does Johnny react to Rab’s decision to leave?
3. Johnny gains information from Dove a second time. What information does Dove reveal, and
what does Johnny infer from the information?
4. Why does Billy Dawes pretend he is a drunk?
5. Explain the phrase, “One if by land, two if by sea.”
RCQ Chapter 11
Answer each question using complete sentences.
1. Where did the war begin and what was the outcome of that first battle?
2. What song does the British use to insult the colonists, and why is it insulting?
3. As the British go through Boston to arrest rebels, how is Mr. Lorne saved?
_____/5 pts
Name ___________________________
Johnny Tremain
4. Before she goes to London, what does Lavinia Lyte tell Johnny?
5. When Bessie asks Johnny if he is a boy or a man, what is his response? What does the response
say about life?
RCQ Chapter 12
Answer each question using complete sentences.
1. Why is Johnny able to walk and talk with British soldiers without being noticed?
2. How does Johnny get to Charleston?
3. What happens to Rab, and how does Johnny find out?
4. Explain how Johnny regains the use of his burned hand?
5. How is Johnny changed over the course of the novel?
_____/5 pts
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