Question

In Bob Thurber's "Cricket War," how does the father decide to get rid of old newspapers that he thinks the crickets are using as nests?
A.By throwing them into the recycling bin.

B.By giving them to a neighborhood newspaper drive.

C.By burying them in a landfill.

D.By burning them.

Answer 1

D burns the newspapers

Answer 2

The correct answer is option D. "By burning them". In Bob Thurber's "Cricket War", the narrator describes a summer at which a bunch of crickets started a war with his father when they invaded their cellar. During the war, the father decided to burn a lot of newspapers and magazines thinking that crickets used them as nests.