1. What season is it as the story Mrs.
Frisby and the Rats of NIHM begins?
Spring
Summer
Winter
Fall
2. Where do Mrs. Frisby and her
four children live?
They live
in an asparagus patch.
They
live in Mr. Fitzgibbon's barn.
They live in an
underground house of a vegetable garden.
3. Which significant
incident occurs in Chapter One?
Mrs.
Frisby meets Mr. Ages the white mouse.
Timothy,
the youngest son is very sick.
Mr. Fitzgibbon begins
to plow.
4. Where did Mrs. Frisby
find a supply of food carefully stored and hidden by someone else?
She found
it in a stump.
She
found it in the barn.
She found it in a
hollowed out fence post.
5. Martin checks on Timothy. What does he do
to determine if he is sick?
He took
his pulse.
He looks at his eyes
and says they are watery.
He feels his forehead
and says it's burning hot.
6. Mrs. Frisby admits that Timothy is something of
a hypochondriac. Which of the following best defines the word
"hypochondriac?"
One
who gets seriously ill, very often.
One who often
complains about imaginary illnesses.
One who wants to study
about medicine.
7. Which of the following best describes
Timothy's "delirious" condition at the end of Chapter One?
He
is experiencing nightmares about monsters and cats, due to a very high
fever.
He is vomiting and has
stomach pains.
He will not eat.
8. What creature is
not a danger to Mrs. Frisby and her family in the winter?
snake
Mr.
Ages
cat
9. What did Mr. Ages make that was needed by Mrs.
Frisby?
He made
trips to the animal hospital.
He
made chicken soup.
He made draughts and
powders that helped the sick.
10. Timothy is
characterized as a frail mouse. Which of the following are
synonyms for the word "frail?"
robust,
sturdy, firm
strange,
ghostly, weird
feeble, breakable,
tender
11. In Chapter Three the reader is given insight
into Mrs. Frisby's daughter Cynthia. How is Cynthia described?
She is
unkind and makes fun of her brothers and sisters.
She
is a very smart mouse who enjoys reading.
She is small and
scatterbrained.
12. Mrs. Frisby reflects
upon a comment made by her husband, "The size of the brain is no
measure of its capacity." What is meant by this?
The size
of the brain doesn't reflect what it is capable of.
The
size of the brain determines what it is capable of.
A birdbrain is very
small and capable of very little.
13. Mrs. Frisby gets a ride on the back of the
crow. Why does she think the crow was going to drop her off of
his back?
While
flying, he banked alarmingly.
He
flew into the branch of a tree.
He came to a very
sudden stop.
14. Which of the following phrases best
summarizes the incident that occurred between Jeremy and Mrs. Frisby?
A stitch
in time saves nine.
One
good turn deserves another.
The early bird gets
the worm.
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