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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Roscuro offer to do?
(a) Take the cloth to ease the man's burden.
(b) Listen to any other confessionals.
(c) Take a message to his daughter.
(d) Take a message to his son.

2. What do the guards tell Antoinette will happen to her son?
(a) He will become an albino.
(b) He will starve to death.
(c) He will be a slave.
(d) The rats will eat him.

3. Who arrived at the castle on the same evening?
(a) Gimmery Gow.
(b) Simmery Yow.
(c) Miggery Sow.
(d) Siggery Mow.

4. On what day does Roscuro leave the dungeon to go into the light of the castle?
(a) On the King's anniversary.
(b) On Despereaux's first birthday.
(c) On the day Despereaux is born.
(d) On the Princess's birthday.

5. What other crime did he commit that he wasn't caught for?
(a) He traded his son for a horse and a saddle.
(b) He traded his son for a daughter and a blanket.
(c) He traded his daughter for ten chickens, and a horse.
(d) He traded his daughter for a red tablecloth, a hen and a handful of cigarettes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Despereaux discover the sound to be?

2. What decision does Roscuro make at that moment?

3. When the Princess sees him and calls out, what does Roscuro realize?

4. What did Furlough first notice when Despereaux was born?

5. How long has Gregory been in the dungeon?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Antoinette react as the last of her babies is being taken to the dungeon?

2. What causes Despereaux to fall in love with the Princess?

3. What is the vote taken by the Mouse Council and what are the results?

4. What happens when the Princess begins to cry?

5. What does Despereaux suddenly find unbearable, and what does he ask the guards?

6. Why does Despereaux refuse to renounce his actions in front of the Mouse Council?

7. How did the mice get to the dungeon?

8. How does Despereaux's behavior get him into trouble?

9. What is the first thing that Despereaux is aware of after he is pushed down the dungeon steps by Furlough and the second guard?

10. In what ways do Despereaux's siblings attempt to educate him on how to be a mouse?

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