Character
Vocabulary
Story
Short Response
100

The full name of the person who wrote Boy: Tales of a Childhood.

Who is Roald Dahl?

100

To be grateful.

What is obliged?

100

This event happened when Dahl was walking home from school and he wants to grow up to do this.

What is riding a bicycle with no hands on the handlebars, wearing clips on his trousers, and wearing a cap at an angle?

100

The items that boys store in the tuck-boxes.

What is food, clothes, and toys?

200

The name of the person who is described as a "horror" and "has a mouth as sour as a goose-berry."

Who is Mrs. Pratchett?

200

To be beaten with a cane.

What is a caning?

200

This event happened after the lesson ended and Dahl and his friends make an exciting discovery.

What is finding a dead mouse under the loose floor-board and the boys plan to put it in Mrs. Pratchett's candy jar?

200

The necessity of the tuck-boxes at school.

What is to store personal items and food and live at boarding school?

300

The name of the person who is described as "an angel of death" and works at the Llandaff Cathedral School.

Who is Mr. Coombes?

300

Having or expressing a cheerful or careless manner.

What is jaunty?

300

This event happened where Dahl's friends make a distraction at the sweet shop.

What is Dahl putting a dead mouse in the Gobstoppers jar?

300

Dahl's feelings about going to boarding school and how they changed.

What is excited and going on an adventure to sad and being away from his family?

400

The person who "flashes a grin like a shark" and encourages parents to send food to their children from home.

Who is the Headmaster at St. Peter's School?

400

Encouraging someone to do something.

What is exhorting?

400

This event happened where Dahl's mother sees the red streaks on his pants and his little sisters listen "goggle-eyed" to his story.

What is Dahl is beaten with a cane and he is taking a bath?

400

The reason why parents are encouraged to send food to their children from home.

What is the Headmaster spends as little money as possible on food for the boys and he tricks the parents?

500

The person who flings all the dormitory doors open and turns on all the lights at St. Peter's School.

Who is the Matron?

500
Making a dark and shadowy shape.

What is a silhouette?

500

This event happened where the Matron got mad and all the boys had their tuck-box keys taken away.

What is a boy named Wragg put sugar all over the floor?

500

The importance of the lock and key on the tuck-box.

What is to keep their personal belongings safe and nobody can open their tuck-boxes?