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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21: A New Home.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What author did Matilda travel to Africa with?
(a) Joseph Conrad.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Rudyard Kipling.
(d) Frank O'Connor.

2. What does the author compare the size of Miss Honey's kitchen to?
(a) A dining room.
(b) A child's bedroom.
(c) A clothes cupboard.
(d) An assembly room.

3. What is the title of chapter one?
(a) The thrower of balls.
(b) The writer of poems.
(c) The reader of books.
(d) The lover of rivers.

4. Who does Miss Honey have to tell to stop grinning?
(a) Matilda.
(b) Bruce.
(c) Lavender.
(d) Nigel.

5. What writer does Matilda tell her father was bald?
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) Charles Dickens.
(c) John Steinbeck.
(d) Christopher Marlowe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of chapter fifteen?

2. What does the author the narrow lane is no wider than?

3. What must always be on the table when the headmistress teaches the class?

4. Who does Miss Trunchbull accuse of putting the newt in her glass of water?

5. What does the author say Miss Honey's sitting room is as bare as?

(see the answer key)

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