True or False
Matilda is able to do difficult math in her head.
True
What is Matilda's brother's name?
Michael
What did Matilda mix with her father's hair tonic to play a prank on him?
Her mother's hair dye
What position does Miss Trunchbull hold at the school? What is her job title?
Headmistress
What vocabulary word means trash?
rubbish
(page 55)
Matilda's brother protects Matilda from their father.
False
He doesn't really do anything.
The name of the librarian who originally helps Matilda to start reading.
Mrs. Phelps
What game does Matilda's mom love to play?
Bingo
Why does Miss Trunchbull think Miss Honey wants Matilda to change classes?
Miss Trunchbull thinks that Miss Honey just wants to get rid of Matilda because she can't handle her.
"If you ever do, you should behave as you would if you met an enraged rhinoceros out in the bush-climb up the nearest tree and stay there until it has gone away."
What does enraged mean in this sentence?
very angry, furious
(page 67)
Matilda dyes her father's hair purple.
False
She dyes it platinum blonde.
What is Miss Honey's first name?
Jenny
Dyeing her father's hair blond
First was the superglue hat and the second was the parrot.
Name at least one other student in Matilda's class.
Lavender
Nigel
Rupert
What vocabulary word means very smart?
brilliant
Miss Trunchbull used to be a famous athlete.
True
What is the name of the parrot Matilda uses to trick her parents to thinking there's a ghost in the house?
Chopper
(page 37)
What does Matilda's father put in the used cars he sells?
Sawdust
What is the name of the type of poem that Matilda recites for Miss Honey?
A limerick.
What vocabulary word means to put up with?
tolerate
Fred is a talking parrot.
False
Fred is the friend who owned a talking parrot.
What is Matilda's father's first name?
Harry
(pg. 19)
What is the first grown-up book that Matilda reads, and who was the author?
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
What does Miss Trunchbull accuse Matilda of doing?
Putting a stink-bomb under her desk.
What vocabulary word means showing care for and extremely fond of someone
doting