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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is the author ?

a)

Mark Hamill

b)

Christopher Boone

c)

Mark Haddon

d)

J.K. Rowling

2.

Which genre does it belong to ?

a)

Fantasy

b)

Science-Fiction

c)

Autobiography

d)

Mystery Novel

3.

How did the author start his literary career?

a)

writing children's books

b)

illustrating children's books

c)

writing love stories

d)

writing plays

4.

The Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is his first novel

a)

True

b)

False

5.

The Success of the Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time allowed him to:

a)

be a millionaire

b)

stop writing for a living

c)

to transition to writing for children's TV

d)

to build a hospital

6.

What is Christopher's full name ?

a)

Christopher Blake John Boone

b)

Christopher Ernest Algernon Boone

c)

Christopher Billy Bob Boone

d)

Christopher John Francis Boone

7.

What does Christopher discover at the beginning of the novel?

a)

His dead neighbour

b)

Mrs Shear's dead poodle

c)

Siobhan's dead dog

d)

A dead cat

8.

What was the murder weapon?

a)

a gun

b)

poison

c)

a baseball bat

d)

a garden fork

9.

Tick the four major themes of the novel

a)

friendship

b)

truth

c)

lies

d)

autism and normalcy

e)

family and forgiveness

10.

The book makes references to Conan Doyle's

a)

The Lost World

b)

The Hound of the Baskervilles

c)

A Study in Scarlet

d)

A Sign of the Four

11.

Which famous detective does Christopher identify with?

a)

Tintin

b)

Colombo

c)

Sherlock Holmes

d)

James Bond

12.

The story is told through

a)

Ed's point of view

b)

Siobhan's point of view

c)

an omniscient narrator's point of view

d)

Christopher's point of view

13.

Christopher has difficulties understanding

a)

Maths

b)

People's emotions

c)

People's opinions

d)

Life

14.

Christopher says it is because

a)

people's faces never change

b)

he can't look at people's faces

c)

people's faces move very quickly

d)

he doesn't have any help

15.

Pick two reasons why the reader may feel distanced

a)

Boring story

b)

childish way of writing

c)

no punctuation

d)

focusing on unusual details

16.

What is Christopher more comfortable with?

a)

Dogs

b)

his family

c)

French

d)

rats

17.

Because he finds them

a)

friendly

b)

cute

c)

easier to understand

d)

stupid

18.

This sheds light on Christopher's ( 2 answers)

a)

stupidity

b)

loneliness

c)

illness

d)

inability to communicate with people

19.

What helps him identifying emotions

a)

words

b)

pictures

c)

definitions

d)

smiley faces

20.

By the way, what is the dog called?

a)

milou

b)

Middleton

c)

Wellington

d)

Washington