Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh Ch. 20- 25

Mrs. Frisby needed to ______ with the rats about the plans for moving her house.

• baffle

• confer

• criticize

Jenner was cynical. He never believed that the rats could make it by themselves. He was a _______.

• pessimist

• baffle

• ventilation

When the shrew confronted the rats, they were confused or ______.

• baffled

• enormous

• cultivated

Mrs. Frisby couldn't believe the time. She was so __________

in Nicodemus's story that she never glanced at the clock.

• enormous

• baffled

• engrossed

The rats had been working hard. They cleared and __________

the land in preparation for planting.

• criticized

• engrossed

• cultivated

A problem or predicament with no obvious solution is called _____.

• impasse

• ventilation

• pessimist

The rats put a screen over the hole for air to circulate.

This is called ______.

• engrossed

• ventilation

• cultivated

The shrew judged, or _______, the rats for "stealing" Mrs. Frisby's house.

• engrossed

• cultivated

• criticized

The Frisby children could not understand why the rats would help them.

They were skeptical. What is a synonym for skeptical?

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Explain the simile in this excerpt.

"The thought of what she had to do came back to Mrs. Frisby like the clanging of an alarm bell. What worried her most was the fear that she might wreck the plan."

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