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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Arithmetic; Chapter 6: The Platinum-Blond Man.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book does the librarian suggest Matilda reads as her first adult book?
(a) Moll Flanders.
(b) Underworld.
(c) Great Expectations.
(d) Sense and Sensibility.

2. What does Mrs. Wormwood tell Matilda she will learn when she is older?
(a) People are cruel.
(b) Men are not as clever as they think.
(c) Life in meaningless without a man.
(d) Family comes first.

3. What does Dahl say teachers have to listen to from proud parents?
(a) Lies.
(b) Spew.
(c) Twaddle.
(d) Waddle.

4. How does Matilda's father get the hat off of his head?
(a) He has an operation.
(b) He burns it off.
(c) He cuts it off.
(d) He pulls it off.

5. What is Matilda's surname?
(a) Petersen.
(b) Honey.
(c) Jones.
(d) Wormwood.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where does Matilda's father get his sawdust from?

4. Complete the following of Mr. Wormwood's many insults "you ignorant little..."

5. What author did Matilda travel to India with?

(see the answer key)

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