The Whipping Boy Chapter 17-20

What word on pg. 61 (Ch.17) gives you a context clue as to what the word “bellowed” means? (RI.4.4)

• Yelled

• thoughtful

• steady

Which simile on pg. 67 (Ch.18) helps you understand what “gnarled” means? (L.4.5)

• as an archer

• as tree roots

What does Jemmy realize about himself when he returns to the city? (RL.4.3)

• He can be free and find rats in the sewer

• He is afraid to leave the castle

• He is educated now and can’t return to the sewers.

When the prince shakes hands for the first time, who is it with? (RL4.1)

• Jemmy, the whipping boy

• Smudge, the kid from the streets

• Capt. Nips, the potato seller

What was worse for the prince than whipping? (RL4.3)

• Shaking hands with a dirty rat-fighting street boy

• Having to wear clothes that looked like rags

• Learning everyone hated him and didn’t want him as king

Why did Jemmy leave for the sewers? (RL4.2)

• . He wanted to start catching rats to make money.

• He was charged with selling the prince to the gypsies

• He was looking for Hold-Your-Nose Billy and Cutwater.

How did the prince trick Hold-Your-Nose Billy and Cutwater into going towards the rats under the brewery? (RL.4.1)

• He ran in that direction so he could be followed.

• He yelled and told them where he was.

• He threw a birdcage in that direction.

What quote from the book uses figurative language, such as imagery, to describe the same event that you see in the illustration? (RL4.7)

• Hold-Your-Nose Billy and Cutwater had rushed in.

• “I’m bit

• They look like they’re wearing fur coats!”

What are some of the overall themes in “The Whipping boy”? (RL4.2)

• Courage, trust, kindness, education, and friendship

• Greed, choices, fate, destiny, and luck

• Good, evil, lightness, darkness, and imagination

For most of the book, the narrator tells the story in the… (RL4.6)

• First Person – using “I”, “me”, and “mine”

• Third Person – using “He”, “him”, and “his”