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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book the Second: Chapters 16-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Despereaux wonder about that chills him?
(a) How big are the rats?
(b) Is there really a 'happily ever after'?
(c) How many rats are there?
(d) Do rats eat mice?

2. What is Despereaux's last name?
(a) Billing.
(b) Filling.
(c) Milling.
(d) Tilling.

3. When the Princess sees him and calls out, what does Roscuro realize?
(a) That he is revered upstairs.
(b) That he does not want to be a rat.
(c) That no one will love him upstairs.
(d) That he does no belong upstairs.

4. What does the jailer show Despereaux?
(a) A pile of old photographs.
(b) A pile of spoons, kettle and soup bowls.
(c) A pile of bones.
(d) A pile of love letters.

5. What does Despereaux have an unusual interest in?
(a) Outdoors.
(b) Card games.
(c) Cats.
(d) Humans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Botticelli do when the door opens to admit a prisoner?

2. What does Roscuro climb to?

3. What does Roscuro offer to do?

4. Who does Despereaux reveal himself to?

5. What do Despereaux's brother and sister take him to the library for?

(see the answer key)

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