chapter 48 B

Question 1

Forty-five minutes later and we’re still down in Uncle Doug’s ____________________ basement trying to get him to hold Buttons on the lab table so he can use the fake needle and pretend to draw some blood from her

Answer 1

dimly lit

Question 2

Leyna and Hunter are crouched outside, ____________ the open basement window and laughing

Answer 2

looking in

Question 3

They are supposed to be catching Dr. Schmaloogan in the act of doing evil experiments. But the only thing they’re witness is my uncle’s _________

Answer 3

breakdown

Question 4

It’s not just their __________________________. Uncle Doug ________ his bushy beard. It’s their saliva too. These things bite

Answer 4

excrement

Question 5

I’ll put up with having the animals in cages in the background ______________________.

Answer 5

verisimilitude

Question 6

And I’ll deal wit hthe aftereffects of all the _________

Answer 6

fluff and dander.

Question 7

But I am not about to have my penis bitten off by a ________________ disease-ridden feline, thank ou very much

Answer 7

venomous

Question 8

Uncle Doug ________ at Buttons–take this thing away from me.

Answer 8

wafts his hands at Buttons

Question 9

tap one cigarette out

Answer 9

slam a cigarette so only one comes out

Question 10

He grabs his pack of American Spirits and _______

Answer 10

taps one out

Question 11

You don’t like cats, how about the ferret?

Uncle Doug ____________ and ________________ his cigarette.

Answer 11

sneers; puffs on

Question 12

I thin I’ll pass. The last thing I need is a feral weasel ___________________________________ and sneaking down my pants

Answer 12

wriggling out of my hands

Question 13

Uncle Doug picks a _____ of tabacco off his tongue

Answer 13

fleck

Question 14

By the time we are done, his tiny little tongue _____________________ as he pants

Answer 14

hangs from his mouth

Question 15

Finally Uncle Doug sighs and _____________ his ciagrette

Answer 15

crushes out

Question 16

Okay But I want the beast to lie ________________. In total _____________. If he even __________, I’m gonna hurl him across the rrom

Answer 16

stock-still. submission; flinches

Question 17

Uncle Doug shuffles cautiously up to the table. Yeah, that’s how they get you. Kill ou with cuteness. _________________ And then go right for your nuts

Answer 17

sucker you in

Question 18

We have to do at least a dozen ____________ of the scene because Uncle Doug is simply not believable as an evil mad veterinarian who experiments on animals

Answer 18

takes

Question 19

Sure, he looks the part. ____________________, rubber gloved, lab coated, and _________.

Answer 19

Bi and gruff; red-eyed

Question 20

But he’s barely touching the dog with the tips of his fingers, and his scrunched-up face completely betrays his absolute _____________

Answer 20

revulsion

Question 21

He is being such a good boy. there’s no biting. No scratching. No ____________________________, not even a __________

Answer 21

ball-sack lunging; whimper

Question 22

Just a frozen little Evok-faced puppy with his tiy furry paws _______________

Answer 22

stuck in the air

Question 23

You are a ve for fuck’s sake. You’re not scared of animals. Just __________ with the needle and take the goddam blood

Answer 23

jab it

Question 24

on cue means

Answer 24

at the correct moment

Question 25

And, as if ____________, Jo-Jo sends a streaming ____________ straight into uncle Doug’s face

Answer 25

spout of whiz

Question 26

Dog pee _____ his mountain-man beard and _________________ the front of his lab coat

Answer 26

soaks; cascades down

Question 27

Matt and Coop’s jaws drop in sync as Uncle Dug leaps away from the lab table and ________________ the longest string of curses I think I’ve ever heard

Answer 27

unleashes

Question 28

He grabs a _______________________ from the workbench–which, truth be told, is probably way more bacteria laden than Jo-Jo’s pee-and swabs at his face and neck like a madman

Answer 28

soiled rag

Question 29

I have several options here. Run away and leave my dog to the mergy of my __________________ uncle. Dart in to save him and risk being beaten to death with any of the numerous blunt objects

Answer 29

foaming at the mouth

Question 30

He didn’t mean it. You just ____________ him. When you grabbed him so suddenly.

Answer 30

spooked him

Question 31

Uncle Doug swipes at this face again with the rag, glaring at me, breathing heavily and loudly through his nose, like a ________________________ that’s getting ready to charge

Answer 31

speared bull

Question 32

And he is roally steamed. And he is three times my size. And he could ______________________________ in the blink of an eye

Answer 32

snap us all in half

Question 33

He takes a deep, deep breath, his hand ___________ the filthy rag

Answer 33

strangling

Question 34

we let’s just say the person who ____________ will regret they were ever plaed on this little planet we call EArth. Are we ________on this point?

Answer 34

leaked it; crystal

Question 35

The five of us nod like __________________ in an earthquake

Answer 35

bobblehead dolls