The Tale of Despereaux Question and Answers

Who are the first rats we meet in chapter #16

• Roscuro and Furlough

• Roscuro and Botticelli

• Furlough and Mig

• Gregory and Roscuro

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The meaning of life is suffering, specially the suffering of others.

Who said this phrase?

• Roscuro

• Furlough

• Despereaux

• Botticelli

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Botticelli says the best thing he can do is to torture prisoners.

"You refuse to offer the very thing he wants. Forgiveness, freedom, friendship, whatever it is that his heart most desires, you retain."

The word that can replace the one underlined is

• swoon

• sequin

• outlaw

• withhold

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

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Even rats do have their own set of rules, which Roscuro neglected. What were they?

• They only eat mice

• They do not like light

• They only live in dungeons

• They spit on the floor

Roscuro was told to care about one thing only.

• Mice

• The red cloth

• The light

• The darkness

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What do we know about Roscuro?

• He was there because of stealing/theft

• His parents did not care much about him

• He didn't want to repent

• He was Botticelli's best friend

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Roscuro escaped with the prisoner's only possession...which was a...

• thread

• spoon

• tablecloth

• light

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CCSS.RL.5.7

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Just as Roscuro was being filled with that light from the cloth, something was happening...

• a mouse was sent to the dungeon

• Despereaux was born

• Botticelli tortured the prisoner

• Despereaux took the thread

Roscuro doesn't want to go back to the dungeons...why? (Select all possible answers)

• He had never seen the light

• He wants to meet Despereaux

• He had never seen happy people

• He wanted to eat the royal food

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Roscuro was swinging from the chandelier on the ceiling. Where did he fall?

• On the side of the table

• On Pea's head

• Into the queen's soup

• In the fruit punch

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CCSS.RL.5.7

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