The Tale of Despereaux Chapters 5-8

What is the "most basic mice rule" that Despereaux breaks?

• Walks instead of scampers
• Doesn't eat cheese
• Shows himself to a human

Which line from the story is an example of a simile?

• her father played another song, a song about the deep purple falling over sleepy garden walls,

• But love is also powerful.

• Despereaux found the simile sitting on the table, and he gave Pea the simile.

• His whiskers became as tight as bowstrings.

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Boom. Tat-tat. Boom. Tat-tat.

The line above is an example of:

• personification

• rhyme

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

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What happened when Despereaux looked up at the princess for the first time?

• he fell over

• he screamed

• he fell in love

• he ran away

When Furlough saw Despereaux, who did he go and tell about it?

• his mother Antoinette

• his father Lester

• his sister Merlot

• his aunt Florence

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THIS STORY BEGINS within the walls of a castle, with the birth of a mouse. A small mouse. The last mouse born to his parents and the only one of his litter to be born alive.

In paragraph above, the word litter means_ ?

• To throw trash in the street

• The size of a bottle of coke

• the offspring at one birth of an animal

• A group of children

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He was staring at the sun reflecting off his mother’s mirror. The light was shining onto the ceiling in an oval of brilliance, and he was smiling up at the sight.



What words from the paragraph tells you what brilliance means?

• shinning

• ceiling

• mirror

• sun

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“Those are some big ears he’s got, too,” observed his uncle Alfred. “They look more like donkey ears, if you ask me.”

“They are obscenely large ears,” said Aunt Florence.

• so excessive as to be offensive

• really really big

• small

• minuscule

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But . . . the music, the music. The music made him lose his head and act against the few small mouse instincts he was in possession of, and because of this he revealed himself; and in no time at all, he was spied by the sharp-eyed Princess Pea.

What phrase helps you determine what the word revealed means?

• the music, the music

• he was in possession of

• and in no time at all

• he was spied by the sharp eyed Princess Pea

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Despereaux stared up at her in wonder. The Pea, he decided, looked just like the picture of the fair maiden in the book in the library.

What does the word wonder mean?

• to walk around and not know where you are

• to look at someone with amazement

• to be in a beautiful place

• to know someone

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