Chapter 9: George's Marvelous Medicine

What was the first thing mum saw when she came home?

• Grandma's head sticking out of the roof

• a gigantic brown hen

• a gigantic pink pig

• George

What did mum drop when she saw Grandma's head sticking through the tiles?

• the groceries

• the milk

• her handbag

• the eggs

Why wasn't Mr Kranky easy to live with?

• he was very mean

• he was very angry

• the smallest things got him all worked up and excited

• he was very grumpy

What did Mr Kranky do when he saw the hen?

• he fainted

• he jumped as though something was burning his feet

• he screamed and yelled

• he got sick

What did the brown hen do?

• jumped up and down

• laid a giant white egg

• laid a giant brown egg

• laid a giant purple egg

How large was the brown hen's egg?

• the size of a football field

• the size of a hen

• the size of an emu egg

• the size of a football

What had Mr Kranky been trying to do for years?

• grow more crops

• make Grandma big

• breed bigger animals

• be a better farmer

How many people would the hen's egg make scrambled eggs for?

• 5

• 10

• 15

• 20

What happened when they gave the medicine to the pig?

• it exploded

• it blew smoke, jumped all about and grew and grew

• it blew smoke, hopped all about and grew and grew

• it blew smoke run around in circles and grew and grew

What had Mr Kranky been trying to do to the black bullocks?

• fatten them for market

• make them eat

• sell them

• give them to Grandma