The Tale of Despereaux ch. 22, 23

Who is Roscuro?

• a mouse

• a rat that likes the light

• a rat that hates the light

• the jailor

What did Roscuro use for a crown?

• a hat

• a ring

• a spoon

• flowers

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Why did Roscuro want revenge?

• the queen hurt him

• the jailor attacked him

• Despereaux was mean to him

• his heart was broken

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Why does the author say the Roscuro's heart was put back together wrong?

• just because his feelings were hurt, he shouldn't be thinking about getting revenge

• he had an operation and the doctor messed up

• he had to take medicine and it made him sick

• his friends tried help him but they didn't know what to do

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Why did the queen die?

• she had a long illness

• someone killed her

• she had a heart attack when she saw Roscuro in her soup

• she fell down the stairs

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Why do you think the king outlawed soup?

• because he was sad that the queen had died while eating soup

• because it was yucky

• because the people hated it

• because it took too long to cook

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In addition to soup, what else did the king outlaw? Pick THREE.

• spoons

• ketteles

• potatoes

• bowls

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What text evidence tells us the the king hated rats?

• he wrote about them

• he sang songs about them

• he had his soldiers go to the dungeons to kill them

• he got some cats

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What happened to the kings men when they went to the dungeon to kill the rats?

• they got lost

• they had fun in the dungeon

• they killed all the rats then had a party

• they got rewarded by the king

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Did outlawing rats and making soup illegal made the king feel better?

• yes because he got revenge

• yes because it was fun to kill rats

• no because it didn't bring his wife back

• no because he forgot all about it

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