Matilda (novel) | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Chapter 1: The Reader of Books

1. What is Matilda's surname?

2. What does Matilda's father do for a living?

3. What is the difference between how most parents talk about their children and how Matilda's parents talk about Matilda?

4. What color does Mrs. Wormwood dye her hair?

5. What is the name of Matilda's brother?

6. What is the name of the village's librarian?

7. What book does the librarian suggest Matilda reads as her first adult book?

8. What does Matilda begin to lose herself in everyday?

9. Why does the librarian become concerned with Matilda?

10. What does Matilda teach herself by the age of three?

11. Where is Matilda's mother...
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