WorksheetsWar Horse Chapters 7-8
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 24mins
After Captain Nicholls dies, who is Joey's new rider?
Trooper Thomspon
Trooper Warren
Trooper Andrew
Trooper Topthorn
Why could Joey no longer walk side-by-side with Topthorn?
He was now just one of the troops following behind the officers.
He got in trouble.
He did want to be Topthorn's friend anymore.
He didn't know how.
What was it that would keep Joey alive in the coming months?
Trooper Warren's loving attention
all the yummy oats and carrots
Trooper Warren riding him like a sack of potatoes
his long, beautiful mane
What was Trooper Warren's job before he went to war?
He was an apprentice baker.
He was an apprentice blacksmith
He was an apprentice soldier.
He was an apprentice florist.
"The dugouts had soon become trenches, and the trenches joined one another, zigzagging across the country from the sea..." To what country?
Sweden
Switzerland
Spain
Scotland
Trooper Warren read letters from home to Joey. They were all from which member of his family?
his brother
his father
his sister
his mother
What illness did Topthorne suffer over the winter?
a severe bellyache
a severe cough
a severe virus
a severe runny nose
In the last full paragraph of Chapter 7, a description of the area in which the men and horses were entering was given. What is another name for that place?
the land of nobody
no-man's-land
the wilderness of worry
landmine central
What simile is used to describe every explosion?
like a tsunami
like an earthquake
like a hurricane
like a tornado
What did Joey do when he realized there was no way through the wire?
He stomped on the wire with his hooves.
He ran around the wire.
He jumped over the wire at its lowest point.
He encouraged Topthorn to go first.
Joey and Topthorn have been separated from their soldiers, who do they belong to now?
Germans
Romans
Italians
Spanards
adjective
tentative, unsure, or slow in acting or speaking.
"The scared boy was _______________ to approach the tiger."
hesitant
devotion
hideous
sporadic
adjective
ugly or disgusting to look at.
"The strange creature looked __________ and had slime dripping from its mouth."
hideous
skirmish
ominous
sporadic
Find a word that means 'pay attention to detail' on Page 54.
(a)
Predict what will happen to Joey now he's been captured.
