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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. How does Mig try to help?
(a) She calls out to the King's guard.
(b) She tries to kick Roscuro out of the way.
(c) She throws the chains at Roscuro.
(d) She tries to cut off Roscuro's head with a knife.

2. What does the soldier tell 'Uncle' is against the law?
(a) To bad mouth the king or his policy.
(b) To own so many sheep.
(c) To hit the girl he owns.
(d) To own another human being.

3. What does Mig call the Royal family?
(a) The Perfect People.
(b) Human stars.
(c) Pretty people.
(d) The Beautiful.

4. What does Roscuro want Pea to dress in?
(a) Her traveling clothes.
(b) Mig's peasant dress.
(c) The gown she wore at the banquet.
(d) Her royal robe.

5. Who is inside the knight's armor in Despereaux's dream?
(a) Lester.
(b) Gregory.
(c) Furlough.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mig drop into the pound cake?

2. Who's food does Mig finally get told to deliver?

3. What dark things are in Pea's heart?

4. Who does Despereaux find in the Princess's chambers?

5. Where does Roscuro stand when he talks to Pea?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Despereaux find the Cook doing when he manages to roll the thread as far as the kitchen?

2. What does Despereaux see after he grabs hold of Botticelli's tail and is led through the dungeon?

3. When does Mig dig in and refuse to help?

4. How does Despereaux come to be back in the kitchen with Mig and the cook?

5. Why does Mig refuse to chain the Princess up at first for Roscuro when they get to the spot where Roscuro intends to keep her?

6. What is Mig supposed to do with the food she takes down to the dungeon?

7. What do Roscuro and Mig ask the Princess to do before they take her down to the dungeon?

8. What did Miggery see when she was seven years old, and how did it affect her?

9. What is Miggery Sow's life like with the man her father sold her to?

10. How does the Princess recognize who Roscuro is, and what does she do about it?

(see the answer keys)

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