Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Chapter 7, 8 and 9 quiz

 Chapter 7: Who asked Jeremy "How high can you fly?"

• Timothy

• Cynthia

• Martin

• Teresa

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Chapter 7: What means "...an updraft?"

• "A current of warm air, rising from the woods"

• Is a place near the rosebush

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Chapter 7: How is the river described in the novel?

• "As a wide, fearsome snake, blue green in colour, coiling through the woods"

• Dry, dull and dead

• Noisy and brave

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Chapter 7: How is the Owl's house described in the novel?

Hint: More than one option

• The peak of a mountain

• A green and healthy tree

• An enormous pine tree, leafless, skeletal and partly dead.

  "... where a branch joined the tree, a dark round hole as large as a lunch plate"

• In the middle of the woods

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Chapter 7: What are some of the Owl's personality traits?

Answer explanation

Deep round voice

Moody

Oldest animal in the wood

Knowledgeable

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Chapter 7: The owl wasn’t very helpful until he found out Mrs. Frisby’s name. Why did the name make a difference?

• The owl had a cousin with the same last name.

• Her husband was well known and admired.

• Mrs Frisby is a name used for royalty and so the owl was impressed

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Chapter 7: Which language technique/s did you identify from this chapter? Provide textual evidence (quote/s) to support your answer.

Answer explanation

Simile: "She did, and saw what looked like a wide, fearsome snake... " (pg. 45).

Simile: "... the branch joined the tree, a dark round hole as large as a lunch plate" (pg. 46).

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Chapter 7: Why was Mrs Frisby afraid of entering the Owl's house?

• He was not her friend

• She was terrified of heights

• She did not like the smell of pine trees

• She knew something of the dietary habits of owls, and she did not much liked the idea of being trapped in his house

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Where is the setting of chapter 7?

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Chapter 8: Why did Mrs Frisby became convince that the Owl would not produce a solution for her problem?

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