The Ratcatcher's Daughter Chapters 5- 12

Identify how Issy is feeling about starting work at the Lewises' undertaking establishment. (p44)

• "scared"

• "anxious"

• "nervous"

• "sick"

What was the name of the special railway in London that Ben explains takes the dead to a cemetery?

• The Dead Railway

• The Necropolis Railway

• The Body Railway

• The London Underground

Where in Greater Brisbane was the plague hospital?

• Calamvale

• Carina

• Coorparoo

• Colmslie

Where is Albert to be buried?

• Gibson Island

• Gibbon Island

• Gibbs Island

• Gibraltar Island

When Issy and her family return to their house in Woolloongabba what do they find?

• It has burned down in a great fire.

• It has been sold to another family.

• It has been sprayed with chemicals and the street has been closed.

• It has been renovated to a higher standard.

Why does Da turn down the job as a cleanser for the council?

• He hates the chemicals the cleansers use.

• He thinks he can earn more money working on his own.

• He has a phobia of rats.

• He wants to be a doctor.

Why is Gran obsessed with the family wearing camphor bags as a preventative measure?

• She loves the smell of camphor and wants the family to be perfumed with it.

• She lost her father and brothers to disease when she was young, and she thinks the camphor will counter the miasmas she thinks cause disease.

• She thinks camphor will ward off evil spirits.