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1. What is Matilda's surname?

Wormwood.

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

A car salesman.

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

They say she is stupid.

4. What color does Mrs. Wormwood dye her hair?

Blonde.

5. What is the name of Matilda's brother?

Michael.

6. What is the name of the village's librarian?

Mrs. Phelps.

7. What book does the librarian suggest Matilda reads as her first adult book?

Great Expectations.

8. What does Matilda begin to lose herself in everyday?

Reading.

9. Why does the librarian become concerned with Matilda?

She comes to the library by herself.

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