Retrieval Questions: 1. Who is Al’s father? 2. Where does Al live? 3. What is the name of Al’s hamster? 4. What sport is Al’s father a coach for? 5. What is the name of the cashier at Joe’s Grocery store?

Inference Questions: 6. Why did Al try to ignore his father’s problems? 7. How must Al’s father be feeling when talking to Al about his mother? 8. Why do you think Mr. McAuley was so intent on Al’s father getting help?

Prediction Questions: 9. How will Al’s father react when he finds out about the time travelling experiment? 10. Is the time travelling experiment going to solve all of Al’s problems? 11. What will Al learn from his journey?

Summarizing Questions: 12. In what ways did Al describe his mother in chapter 1? 13. Summarize the events that happen in chapter 2. 14. What is the purpose of Al’s experiment with the time machine? 15. What is the theme of the book Time Traveling With a Hamster?