chapter 27

Question 1

playing possum

Answer 1

play possum definition. To pretend to be dead, a trick used by opossums to defend themselves from predators: “Everyone thought the old con man had died, but it turned out he was just playing possum.”

Question 2

A giant red truck is __________________ right in front of me. Two ________________ kids hang out the windows and start ________________ eggs, tomatoes and–zucchini? –at me.

Answer 2

screeching to a halt; ski-masked; rifling

Question 3

I get a glimpse of the ________ and the blood dripping from the corners of the flying vampanzee’s mouth–a pretty realistic effect, I must say–just as I turn to run. But it’s too late.

Answer 3

fangs

Question 4

And suddenly it all makes sense.

These are our humanzees and I am meant to be one of their _______ victims.

Answer 4

unwitting

Question 5

That’s when I catch sight of the video-camera lens futively ______________ the van’s open back door.

Answer 5

poking out from

Question 6

A giant juicy _____________ tomato catches me in the face, erupting on impact and saturating my spandex mask with gloppy pulp.

Answer 6

beefsteak

Question 7

I heard about this one dude who was “___________” to try and win a water scooter on some radio show and his bladder totally exploded.

Answer 7

holding his water

Question 8

It’s like now that my bladder knows a toilet is only a quick van ride away, it can stop ____________________ and start making noise again. Major noise.

Answer 8

playing possum

Question 10

The mask ______ and Nick smiles a huge psycho smile at me, his large teeth still stained red from the blood dye.

Answer 10

comes off

Question 11

But as I bend over to retrieve the boards–which looks about as awkward as you can imagine–Uncle Doug’s two-tone green van _______________________.

Question 12

unwitting

Answer 12

adjective: unwitting

(of a person) not aware of the full facts.

“an unwitting accomplice”

Question 13

adj. portainting to something that has a thick, chunky consistancy, making a _________ sound when poured

Answer 13

gloppy

Question 14

The monster _____________, ramming my lower back like i’m a football-tackling dummy.

Answer 14

slams into me

Question 15

eggos _____ all over my costume. Zucchini __________ me like dozens of tiny green baseball bats.

Answer 15

explodig; battering

Question 16

A few self-pitying moments later, I realize that the trauma of the attack has totally scared away my __________.

Answer 16

pee urge

Question 17

We both hit the ground hard and the wind–together with a sizable _________________ is knocked right out of me.

Answer 17

gush of pee

Question 18

What else am I going to do dressed as a giant rug and __________________ in the middle of a suburban wasteland?

Answer 18

stranded

Question 19

stampede means

Answer 19

1.

(of horses, cattle, or other animals) rush wildly in a sudden mass panic.

“the nearby sheep stampeded as if they sensed impending danger”

Question 20

rifle means

Answer 20

hit, throw, or kick (a ball or puck) hard and straight.

“he rifled a hard, rising shot from just inside the blue line”

Question 21

Not because I want to attract attention to myself–certainly not, after finding out about the ________________–but because I still have three and a half hours before Uncle Doug is coming back to get me and I have to take the mother of all whizzes.

Answer 21

mascot assailants

Question 23

one who attacks another

Answer 23

assailants

Question 24

_________________, Nick has to practically drag me back up the hill, as it’s impossible for me to do any climbing in my soggy restrictive rug suit.

Answer 24

to add insult to injury

Question 25

The monster slmas into me, ________ my lower back like I’m a football-tackling dummy.

Answer 25

ramming

Question 26

It’s okay. I lie. I am fine. Just _____________, ______, and pee scented.

Answer 26

clammy, achy

Question 27

The beasts growl and howl as they charge. My heart ______ in my chest as I _____________ as fast as my leg-constricting carpet suit will let me.

Answer 27

thuds; shamble backward

Question 28

I’m lying there on my stomach, ______ the desperate hope that my carpet costume will soak up the embarrassing leak like a sponge, when I suddenly realize that me and the moneky-man have begun to slide down the _________ slope.

Answer 28

clinging to; snow-slicked

Question 29

slam into

Answer 29

slam into someone or something

to crash into someone or something. The race car—out of control—slammed into the stands. The bus slammed into a truck.

See also: slam

Question 31

Astronauts pee in their __________________. Scuba diver pee in their _________.

Answer 31

space suits, wet suits

Question 32

I bear down, attempting to __________ , but there’s no way the flow is gonna stop before the tank’s been emptied.

Answer 32

close off the tap

Question 33

Nothing, I say, my cheeks burnig up _________ the spandex.

Answer 33

behind

Question 34

He is kneeling on top of me, riding me like a _____________.

Answer 34

toboggan

Question 35

A giant juicy beefsteak tomato catches me in the face, erupting _____________ and _______________ my sapndex mask with _____________

Answer 35

on impact; saturating; gloppy pulp

Question 36

Praobably just some dye from the cheap-ass rug costume. Coop winks at me. ____________________. We’ll make it work for us. We can recolor it __________.

Answer 36

don’t sweat it. in post

Question 37

clammy

Answer 37

ˈklamē/

adjective

adjective: clammy; comparative adjective: clammier; superlative adjective: clammiest

unpleasantly damp and sticky or slimy to touch.

“his skin felt cold and clammy”

Question 38

pelt

Answer 38

attack (someone) by repeatedly hurling things at them.

“two little boys pelted him with rotten apples”

Question 39

go _____ yourself! one of them hollers

Answer 39

shag

Question 40

I ______ like Uncle Doug showed me to try and ward off the onslaught, but it’s pointless. I am ______ from tassels to toes.

Answer 40

undulate; pelted

Question 41

I cringe, wondering which of our acquaintances just rode me down a hill while I ______________.

Answer 41

pissed my tights

Question 42

shamble means

Answer 42

verb: shamble; 3rd person present: shambles; past tense: shambled; past participle: shambled; gerund or present participle: shambling

1.

(of a person) move with a slow, shuffling, awkward gait.

“he shambled off down the corridor”

Question 43

a long wide, berry-beast-bright-yellow swatch _________________.

Answer 43

cut through the snow

Question 44

I can’t wait to see the __________. I bet it looks spectac!

Answer 44

footage

Question 45

Answer 45

ski mask

Question 46

I try to spin away from the assault, but my sneaker ________________________________, sending my feet flying into the air.

Answer 46

catches a patch of ice

Question 47

My body ______ as I brush the snow and tomato guts out of my spandex-covered eyes and see what it is that he–and everyone on top of the hill–sees: a long wide, Berry-Beast-bright-yellow _______ cut through the snow.

Answer 47

tingles; swath

Question 48

sweet. Let’s go YouTube it!”

The truck _____________ and I lie there for a minute, stunned.

Answer 48

peels off

Question 49

Oh God, it hurts so bad. From my belly all the way to the ___________________________.

Answer 49

very tip of the tap

Question 50

That’s when I catch sight of the _______________________ furtively poking out from the van’s open back door.

Answer 50

video-camera lens

Question 51

That was epic! Coop _____. The kind of happy accident filmmakers dream about.

Answer 51

hoots

Question 52

Am I in a coma? Am I dreaming this? Or did the mascot thugs __________________ and ___________ Uncle Doug’s van so they could come back and attack me again?

Answer 52

go costume up; hijack

Question 53

I close my eyes and tell myself, If you pee right now, you will win the film festival and you will not have to share a room with your evil sister. But only if you pee right now. ____________________.

Answer 53

by the count of five

Question 54

We finally ________________________ against a mound of snow that’s been cleared from the lumberyard parking lot.

Answer 54

come to a thumping halt

Question 55

And just like that, my desparate need to whiz comes back with a ___________.

Answer 55

vengeance

Question 56

And then, all of a sudden, three humongous hairy things spill out of the van all at once and begin ___________________ me.

Answer 56

stampeding toward

Question 57

He turns his chimp-head and looks back at the hill we just ______________.

Answer 57

sledded down

Question 58

A giant juicy beefsteak tomato ____________________, erupting on impact and saturating my spandex mask with gloppy pulp.

Answer 58

catches me in the face

Question 59

But there is not a single solitary tree, bush, or abandoned building to ___________.

Answer 59

crouch behind

Question 60

I spin around desperately, searching for somewhere I can ______ this stupid outfit and drain the dragon.

Answer 60

pull off

Question 61

A little pee devil on my shoulder is trying to convince me to “just let go.” To open the _______________ inside my costume like Uncle Doug said to.

Answer 61

floodgates