2. What does Botticelli do when the door opens to admit a prisoner?
(a) He runs into the darkness.
(b) He runs to get Gregory.
(c) He looks away from the light at the door.
(d) He runs to get Roscuro.

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

4. What one thing must all mice do?
(a) Conform.
(b) Have a family.
(c) Learn to read.
(d) Avoid cats.

5. What is the rope necklace Botticelli wears the locket on made from?
(a) The thread from threadbare clothing.
(b) The hair from prisoners' heads.
(c) The whiskers of mice.
(d) The thread of prisoners' blankets.

6. How many brothers and sisters are in Despereaux's litter?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) None.
(d) One.

7. Who does Despereaux reveal himself to?
(a) The Mouse Council.
(b) The King.
(c) Princess Pea.
(d) Prince Lester.

8. Who does Lester call?
(a) The Mouse Council.
(b) His family.
(c) The Princess.
(d) The King.

9. How long has Gregory been in the dungeon?
(a) Two years.
(b) Five or six years, he isn't exactly sure.
(c) For decades, for centuries, for eons, for eternities.
(d) Six months or so.

10. What else did the King order?
(a) That rats be banished.
(b) That all the rats be killed.
(c) That mice be allowed.
(d) That Roscuro be found and punished.

11. Why does Despereaux tell the jailer he cannot die?
(a) Because he wants to read.
(b) Because he is in love.
(c) Becaue he wants to learn how to write.
(d) Because he is too young.

12. What broke Roscuro's heart?
(a) That he would not be a guest at the party.
(b) That he would never be welcome in the light.
(c) The look the Princess gave him.
(d) The way the King cried for his wife.

13. What is Despereaux's destiny?
(a) To leave the area.
(b) To meet the rats.
(c) To find his real true love.
(d) To live in the castle.

14. What does perfidy mean?
(a) Deliberate treachery.
(b) Chivalry.
(c) Fidelity.
(d) Perfection.

15. What does Roscuro tell Botticelli he wants to do?
(a) Go upstairs into the light.
(b) Move to another dungeon.
(c) Let someone else torture the prisoner.
(d) Leave the dungeon for ever.