Characters
This brave widow mouse is the protagonist of the story who seeks help for her ill son, Timothy.
Who is Mrs. Frisby?
This is where the rats of NIMH live after escaping from the laboratory.
What is the Boniface Estate?
Mrs. Frisby seeks their help after her son falls ill with pneumonia.
Who are the rats of NIMH?
This theme in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH explores the consequences of tampering with nature, particularly with the rats' enhancement through science experiments.
What is the ethical dilemma of genetic modification?
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What is Man Versus Nature?
This is the author of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
Who is Robert O'Brien?
This rat, who becomes the leader of the NIMH rats, is highly intelligent and resourceful but deeply conflicted about the future of his kind.
Who is Nicodemus?
Mrs. Frisby's home is located on this farm.
This is the method the rats used to escape their former life in a laboratory and gain independence.
What is stealing electricity?
This theme involves the challenges of leadership, like Nicodemus and Jenner's conflict.
What is the struggle for power?
This year the book won the prestigious Newberry Medal.
What is 1972?
This rat is known for his mechanical skills and is instrumental in the rats' plan to move the Frisby family home.
Who is Jenner?
This is where Dr. Schultz and his assistants experimented on the rats.
What is NIMH?
Mrs. Frisby and her children plan to move her home to avoid this.
What is the plow coming to till the field?
This theme is about the rats experiencing conflicting feelings after leaving NIMH. They begin to understand both that they have been changed forever and that their old way of living is based on stealing from others.
What is the theme of dissatisfaction?
This character attempted to prevent the rats from moving Mrs. Frisby's home.
Who is the Shrew?
The crow, who initially tries to eat Mrs. Frisby, later aids her in her quest to save her son.
Who is Jeremy?
The rats current location on the farm property, guarded by a sentry rat.
What is the rosebush?
In order to ensure her home is moved without an issue, Mrs. Frisby gives this animal a powdered sedative.
Who is Dragon?
This theme focuses on the Rats of NIMH experiments that have so deeply effected and outcast them from others. Nicodemus even says that "rats have roles, not titles."
What is the theme of belonging or not-belonging?
What is extermination?
This person left a truck full of motors and engines the rats used to build a civilization.
Who is the Toy Tinker?
What is a cinderblock?
The rats of NIMH helped Mrs. Frisby because of him.
Who is Jonathan Frisby?
What is family?
Mrs. Frisby rides on Jeremy to see this wise character for advice.
Who is the Owl?