The Tale of Despereaux: Chapter 16 & 17

What does the word "chiaroscuro" mean?

• Darkness and light together

• Darkness

• Light

• Dungeon

Why is Roscuro missing his whiskers on the left side of his face?

• He got a hair cut.

• Gregory held a match close to Roscuro's face.

• Gregory plucked them out.

• He was born with whiskers only on the right side of his face.

Botticelli says the meaning of life for a rat is____________.

• Chewing on the rope of Gregory

• Darkness

• Suffering. Specifically the suffering of others.

• Light

Roscuro did not look away from the light when the dungeon door opened.

• True

• False

Who lives upstairs?

• The rats

• Gregory

• The prisoners

• The mice