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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Arithmetic; Chapter 6: The Platinum-Blond Man.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of chapter one?
(a) The reader of books.
(b) The writer of poems.
(c) The thrower of balls.
(d) The lover of rivers.

2. What does Mr. Wormwood use to turn back the numbers of the speedometer?
(a) A crank.
(b) A conveyor belt.
(c) A screwdriver.
(d) A drill.

3. What color does Mrs. Wormwood dye her hair?
(a) Blonde.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Purple.

4. What does the author say has made Matilda's life with her parents bearable?
(a) Visiting the library.
(b) Reading her books.
(c) Going to school.
(d) Punishing them.

5. What does Matilda use to get her father's hat off of the hat stand?
(a) A walking stick.
(b) An oar.
(c) A barge pole.
(d) A wooden spoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Matilda tell her father that the bits of leather stuck to his forehead look like?

2. What does Matilda's father do for a living?

3. From what point of view is the first chapter written in?

4. What was Mr. Wormwood's face as dark as when he arrives back from work in the Ghost chapter?

5. What is the difference between how most parents talk about their children and how Matilda's parents talk about Matilda?

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