1. Why had Jonathan Frisby not told his
wife about his experience at Nimh?
He would stay young
because of the injections, and Mrs. Frisby would grow older and older.
He
was afraid she wouldn't have married him.
He didn't want her to
find out he was smarter than she was.
2. Mrs.
Frisby pours the powder into Dragon's dish, runs toward the
cabinet, and ....
safely
crawls through the hole in the kitchen wall.
is
suddenly captured under a colander by Billy Fitzgibbon.
is swatted with a
piece of newspaper by Mr. Fitzgibbon.
3. What does the reader learn in the chapter
entitled "Seven Dead Rats?"
That Mr.
Fitzgibbon has killed seven rats in his tool shed.
That
seven rats had been electrocuted at the local hardware store.
That seven rats had
killed by Dragon.
4. Why does Paul Fitzgibbon believe the Public
Health Service is coming to investigate the deaths of the rats?
He thinks
they know they are the rats that escaped from Nimh.
He
thinks they believe the rats have rabies.
He thinks they want to
put it in the newspaper.
5. What does Mrs. Frisby hear Paul say that alarms
her?
He going
to keep her as a pet forever.
He wants to
exterminate the rats himself.
He knows rats live
under the rosebush.
6. Who believes the men are looking
for the escaped rats from Nimh, rather than for rats with rabies?
Mr.
Fitzgibbon
Mrs. Frisby
Dragon
7. Who comes to help Mrs. Frisby escape from the
bird cage?
Justin
Nicodemus
Paul
8. What news does Mrs. Frisby share with Justin?
She tells
him that Timothy is feeling better.
She
tells him she loves him.
She tells him that
exterminators are coming to poison all of the rats.
9. Who was blocking the door to Mrs. Frisby's
cinder block home, and not allowing the rats to move it?
Dragon,
the cat
Mrs. Frisby's
children
the shrew
10. What does Mrs. Frisby realize as she wakes up
in the comfort of her warm and safe house?
She needs
to warn the rats that they are in terrible danger.
She
realizes she will be hunted down and put back in the birdcage.
She realizes Timothy
has died during the move.
11. Why does Nicodemus believe Mrs. Frisby has
repaid the rats for moving her house?
She can
save them from a disaster.
She
invited them to live with her and her children.
She put the sleeping
potion into Dragon's food.
12. Who does Nicodemus realize the rats killed at
the hardware store were?
Group B,
from the laboratory
Jenner,
and those who left with him
rats from the
neighboring farm
13. What were the headlines in the local
newspaper?
"Mechanized
Rats Invade Harware Store"
"Rabid
Rats Invade Hardware Store"
"Motorized Rats
Invade Hardware Store"
14. Mrs. Frisby watched the masked men from the
white truck put a flexible hose into the center of the rat hole.
What did she she them put over the escape hole?
a cage
a
bag
another hose leading
back into the truck
15. How many rats does the doctor leave the
Fitzgibbon farm with?
none
ten
live rats in the cage
two dead rats
16. Who was with Brutus when Mrs. Frisby
approached him?
Mr. Ages,
with an antidote for the poison.
Nicodemus,
with six other rats.
Paul Fitzgibbon
17. Why did Mrs. Frisby think it was right to
tell her children about the escape from Nimh and her own escape from
the birdcage?
She
thought it would be a good bedtime story.
They
could possibly be very different from other mice because they were the
children of Jonathan Frisby.
She didn't want them
to find it out from somebody else.
18. Who do the children believe could help Mrs.
Frisby find the rats in Thorn Valley?
Mr. Ages
the
shrew
Jeremy, the crow
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