Retrieval Questions: 1. What type of animal did the protagonist’s Grandfather give him? 2. What did Grandfather give to protagonist with the hamster? 3. What did Al have written on his t-shirt? 4. What did the protagonist’s Dad give him for his birthday? 5. What did the protagonist buy with his 5 pounds?

Inference Questions: 6. Why did Al give the protagonist the hamster? 7. Why did Grandfather give the protagonist the Swiss Army Knife? 8. Why did the protagonist decide to make a time machine?

Prediction Questions: 9. Where do you think the protagonist and the hamster will travel to? 10. What do you think the protagonist will learn from his time-traveling adventures?

Summarizing Questions: 11. How did the protagonist build the time machine? 12. How did the protagonist and the hamster come to be traveling around in time? 13. How did the protagonist figure out that he had time-traveled? 14. What did the Piltdown Man represent to the protagonist? 15. What was the climax of the first three chapters?