Summer Reading Questions for Ms. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien
Please answer the following questions on loose-leaf. Restate the question in the answer and skip a line between each question. Please write a full heading on the top of your looseleaf.
Example: Who is Mrs. Frisby? Mrs. Frisby is a widowed mouse.
Questions:
Chapter 1:
1.Where is Mrs. Frisby?
2. Where do Mrs. Frisby and her family live? Why did they choose to live there?
Chapter 2:
3.Why doesn’t Mrs. Frisby take the short cut to Mr. Ages’ house?
4. What happened to Timothy? What does Mr. Ages’ give to Mrs. Frisby?
Chapter 3:
5. What is Timothy like? How do you know?
6. What trouble does Jeremy get in and how does Mrs. Frisby help him?
Chapter 4:
7. Why is Moving Day a problem for Timothy?
Chapter 5:
8. What does Mrs. Frisby notice about the cat that is odd?
9. What does Mrs. Frisby notice about the rats that are odd?
Chapter 6:
10. What advice does Jeremy give Mrs. Frisby and what favor does he agree to do for Mrs. Frisby?
Chapter 7:
11. How does Mrs. Frisby feel riding on Jeremy’s back?
12. Why doesn’t Mrs. Frisby want to go into the owl’s home?
Chapter 8:
13. What advice does the owl give Mrs. Frisby?
14. Who does the owl say can help Mrs. Frisby? How can they help her?
Chapter 9:
15. How can you tell that Timothy knows that he is going to die? How does he react?
16. Why does Mrs. Frisby go to the rose bush? Who is at the entrance?
Chapter 10:
17. Why does Mrs. Frisby ask for Justin? What must she promise before she goes into the rose bush to see Nicodemus?
Chapter 11:
18. How did Mrs. Frisby learn to read? What message does she read on the blackboard?
Chapter 12:
19. Who is Isabella? Who is Jenner?
Chapter 13:
20. How do the rats plan to help Mrs. Frisby?
21. How does Mrs. Frisby’s husband die?
Chapter 14:
22. How did Nicodemus and Jenner get caught?
Chapter 15:
23. How many rats were captured? Why were they captured?
Chapter 16:
24. What experiments were run on the rats and what was the purpose of these experiments?
Chapter 17:
25. How did Justin and Jenner figure a way out of the cages?
Chapter 18:
26. Where did the rats plan to go after they escape?
Chapter 19:
27. What was the greatest treasure on the “Boniface Estate” as far as the rats were concerned?
Chapter 20:
28. What tool is the most important invention, the key to the whole plan?
Chapter 21:
29. How long were the rats at the estate?
Chapter 22:
30. Why did the rats choose to live in the cave close to the farmhouse?
Chapter 24:
31. Why did Mr. Fitzgibbon want to get rid of the rats?
Chapter 26:
32. Why is Justin told to gather garbage?
Chapter 27:
33. Why doesn’t Brutus die after breathing the poisonous gas?
Epilogue:
34. What happens to Timothy?
