The Stormchasers Quiz

What are Jakey and his father watching from the window?

• Cars driving on the road

• Tornadoes forming in the sky

• Snails crawling on the patio

• Trees swaying in the wind

What is Jakey scared of?

• Hurricanes

• Thunderstorms

• Earthquakes

• Tornadoes

What does Jakey imagine the tornado to be like?

• A straw in the sky's mouth

• A giant vacuum cleaner

• A roaring lion

• A spinning top

What size of tornado does Jakey think they might find?

• F1

• F2

• F3

• F4

What does Jakey's mother say when they tell her they're going tornado chasing?

• She asks them to bring her something

• She tells them to go away

• She warns them to be careful

• She offers to join them

Why does Jakey's radio station choice surprise his father?

• Jakey knows all the words and says he listens to it with his mum.

• The father prefers rock music.

• Jakey knows how to work the radio.

• It doesn't because the father and Jakey do everything together, so they like the same music.l

Which of these indicates that the mother feels dissociated from her son and husband?

• She listens to pop music with Jakey.

• She has terrible tooth pain and can't leave the bedroom.

• Jakey has blond hair like his father's.

• She doesn't like stormchasing.

What is ironic about the story?

• There aren't tornadoes in England.

• The storm ended before they left to find it.

• Jakey is afraid of storms.

• The real storm to fear is in the house.

What is the truth about the dentist story?

• It was a secret plan

• It was a misunderstanding

• It was a funny joke

• It was a terrible lie

What does the sou'ester and macintosh symbolize?

• The father's hopes and dreams.

• The father is a better parent.

• The father's profession

• Morton Salt