Comprehension Questions- The Boxcar Children #127 Monkey Trouble

 Monkey Trouble

By Gertrude Chandler Warner

Grades 3-5; Genre - Fiction; AR pts: 2.0

Its spring break and the Alden children head to the zoo for a special tour and photo contest.  One of their friend’s cameras goes missing and the children are stumped as they try to find out where it disappeared to.

Comprehension Questions

Chapter 1

  1. Where did the children go for the day?     To the zoo  p. 1
  2. What kind of contest is the zoo having?  Photo       p. 7
  3. How many cameras did Blake buy?  Two    p. 11
  4. Who asked Blake if she could have one of his cameras?  Sophie   p. 14

Chapter 2

  1. Why is Annika upset that Blake has two cameras?  She feels its cheating   p. 18
  2. Who did Violet make a promise to about taking the first picture on their camera? Benny   p. 19
  3. Why is Sophie sad? She doesn’t have any money to buy a camera.   p. 20
  4. Who did the Alden’s share their lunch with? Nico    p. 23

Chapter 3

  1. Whose camera went missing?  Blake’s   p. 29
  2. What does he think happened to it?  He thought someone took it.    p. 30
  3. What did everyone do to help find it?  They split up and searched the zoo.   p. 32
  4. Who kept disappearing?  Sophie    p. 35

Chapter 4

  1. What Annika do with her pockets and purse? Dumped them out   p. 41
  2. What did the monkey open? His cage door   p. 41
  3. What did the children use to lure the monkey back into its cage?   fruit    p. 46
  4. Did anyone find Blake’s missing camera?  No      p. 50

Chapter 5

  1. Tell me some of the kids on the Alden’s suspect list?  Sophie, Annika, Nico, Griffin   p. 53
  2. What did Benny and Jessie find in the lost and found?  A bracelet    p. 58
  3. Why doesn’t Sophie like giraffes? She had a stuffed giraffe that looked creepy at night.   p. 63
  4. Does Jessie still think Sophie took the camera?   No        p. 64

Chapter 6

  1. What did Simio do after Mr. Newton let him off the leash?  He grabbed student’s things and put them in a pile.    p. 72
  2. Who didn’t label their cameras with their first names? The twins/ Griffon & Matthew   p. 74
  3. Who did the Alden’s think could have taken Blake’s camera? Simio   p. 75

Chapter 7

  1. What did Mr. Newton find in Simio’s pile? His tennis shoe     p. 81
  2. Was the camera in Simio’s pile?  No      p. 82
  3. How did Annika act when Jessie asked her if she had two cameras? frustrated    p. 84
  4. What did Jessie do with their list of suspects for the first time? Cross them all off  p. 85

Chapter 8

  1. Who got to have the first slice of pizza?  Benny     p. 87
  2. Who won third place?   Griffin    p. 90
  3. What did Violet get for second place?   A supersize popcorn bucket    p. 92
  4. What did Blake do for Annika when she won first place?   He made her a photographer for the newspaper    p. 93

Chapter 9

  1. How many pictures of each animal did Blake take?  One     p. 99
  2. How many pictures did Annika like to take of each animal? Multiple     p. 99
  3. Who really won the contest?   Blake   p. 101

Chapter 10

  1. What was the new mystery the Alden’s needed to solve? Who took Annika’s camera   p. 103
  2. What animal did Sophie take a lot of pictures of?  Giraffes     p. 105
  3. Whose camera did Sophie try to take?  Blake’s    p. 108
  4. What was Sophie’s consequence for taking the camera? She needed to help at the zoo.    p. 112