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WorksheetsLongfellow Battlers: Poppy and Rye
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
Who wrote Poppy and Rye?
E.B. White
Avi
Mary Norton
Kate DiCamillo
Golden mice Clover and her husband Valarian have 63 children (they have 4 litters a year). Who was the oldest?
Ragweed
Rye
Thistle
Curlydock
Snoopy
Clover and Valarian have to leave their nest of 6 years because the Beavers are flooding the brook. Where do they move?
East
To the boulder
South
Under the bridge
To Dimwood Forest
The mice eat nuts, dried berries, and seeds. What is considered by Rye and his father to be one of the best seeds?
Sunflower
Milkweed
Dandelion
Chamomile
Chester P. Canad has dammed up the Brook. What does he call his new development?
Canad's Cute Condos
"Cas" Country
Progress without Pain Promenade
Ereth's Revenge Townhomes
Battle of the Boulder Memorial Village
Ereth is a foul-mouthed name caller and is Poppy's best friend. What sort of creature is he?
A beaver
A deer mouse, just like Poppy
A red-tailed hawk
An old porcupine who lives in a smelly log and really loves Poppy deep down
What color is the bead on the earring that Poppy wears, which once belonged to Ragweed?
Yellow
Purple
Blue-green
Bright orange
Mr. Ocax the owl killed Ragweed and Poppy feels like she needs to give the bad news to his parents before she can move on. Then she falls in love again -- but with who?
Rye, Ragweed's younger brother who has a notch in his right ear due to a childhood accident
Ereth, the cranky porcupine
Elmo
She doesn't, but rather lives in the past forever
The mouse hero that shoved a stick up the beaver's nose
Who accompanies Poppy on her journey from Dimwood Forest to Ragweed's home near the brook in the Woodlands?
Ereth, the crabby salt licking porcupine who can't deal with his own feelings
Clara Canard, who is a "chip off the old block"
Rye, Thistle, and Curlydock
Helen the dragonfly princess
The Salt King
If you are a mouse, how do you get in and out of a Beaver lodge?
By using the secret knock
By sneaking in the side door behind the bay window
By climbing through the first floor window
By using the underwater passage -- or an air vent
Clara says there is always a price to be paid for progress. How does Rye answer her?
But who is paying that price -- we are!
Oh yeah you are right, good point, never mind.
I never thought of it that way Clara -- you are a genius!
Did you know that your teeth are bright orange?
Valarian points out that because no one owns the brook, all the creatures are obliged to share. Does Cas agree?
Yes.
No, he does what suits him and doesn't care about his impact on others.
He is indifferent; he is just there to officiate Poppy and Rye's wedding and publish Rye's 32-stanza poem in Highlights.
Who uses a lot of "aphorisms" in his speech, such as "neat as a pin" and "I mean that sincerely"?
Cas
Valarian
Rye
Curlydock
Which statements describe Rye? Check all that apply:
He goes foraging for sunflower seeds with his Dad.
He felt like his family was always comparing him unfavorably to Ragweed.
He sometimes feels underappreciated and ignored.
He remarked to the 12 beavers in his family: "If you can't see the forest for the trees, chew the trees down!".
He falls in love with Poppy when they dance on the meadow.
What happens in the middle of the story? Check all that apply.
Cas advised Clara to "keep saying 'progress without pain' until they believe it".
Ereth didn't want to hear Poppy's absentminded humming after her dance with Rye, because he was jealous.
The children did their chores quickly because they wanted to soothe their parents who felt it was all just too much.
Thistle suggests to Poppy that Ragweed wasn't big enough to admit that Rye was better than he was at some things.
Rye feels humiliated when he learns that Poppy loved Ragweed and decides to defeat the Beavers to redeem himself.
What brings the mouse parents to the brink of despair?
Poppy's second round of bad news about one of their sons: Cas was holding Rye hostage in the lodge (which is 20 feet across and 3 feet wide) until they leave the boulder.
The news that Ereth has gotten stuck in a berry bramble after a fit of jealousy compounded by watching the seemingly happy beaver family from afar.
The fact that Poppy is kind and brave and always good natured.
The fact that Poppy called Ereth 'old'.
The fact that maple twigs are hard to chew through.
Poppy is six months old. She decides she wants to be with Rye for the rest of her life. So what does she do? Check all that apply
She makes a raft and paddle and sets off for the lodge.
She gets scared in the water when Judy and Joe Beaver come out for a cooling swim, yet she persists.
She sways from a vine after decending through the air vent.
She told Rye that the fact that he even tried to defeat the beavers seemed brave to her, although he didn't have a plan.
She tries to come back with two of Rye's siblings to fight the beavers with Ereth's quills.
How is Ereth freed from the thicket?
Poppy, Thistle, and Curleydock chew through the honeysuckle vine.
He digs underground and tunnels out.
He shoots his quills out in all directions, slicing through all obstacles.
He uses magic to dig himself a chute. He then curls into a ball, and rolls out of the thicket, smashing the dam in the process.
He observes that the mouse family hasn't put up much resistance to the beavers and decides to help them.
Clara slaps her tail and thinks all three mice drown - end of story. But what really happens? Check all that apply.
Thistle and Curlydock reunite and go home and help the family dislodge the boulder to bash the dam.
Poppy, buoyed by vine around her neck, makes it to the lodge and digs the air vent open again.
Poppy and Rye escape just after the dam bursts, so that Poppy doesn't have to try to swim again.
They sail away to the next village, never to be seen again.
Ereth smacks Cas right across the face in a humilating defeat for the Beavers, who move away.
In Poppy's darkest hour, alone on top of the lodge, she is in anguish. Why? Check all that apply.
Ragweed died.
Rye ran off and is in prison.
Ereth, Clover, and Valarian were unhappy with her.
She thought Curlydock and Thistle may have drowned.
Her plan was a disaster what with the lost quills and the sealed-over vent.
