A Waltz For Matilda - Chapter 8

Why were the cows and chickens looking so ill?

• they had a disease

• they hadn't eaten in a while

• it was too hot

• that's how they were meant to look

Tuppence is a form of ...

• animal

• money

• house

• flower

What was Matilda's thoughts about the house?

• The author doesn't say.

• She didn't care about it because she wasn't going to stay there.

• She hated the house because it was filled with snakes

• The house reminded her of Aunt Ann's.

Here was the farm. But there were no woolly sheep, and no cow or pink pig, like the farm book at Aunt Ann’s. Most importantly, no father.

What does this quote tell us?

• that the house doesn't belong to her father

• that her father has changed the house since she was last there

Match the following images to the correct word.

• animal hide

• 
• Kanaka people

• 
• kindling

• 
• hearth

• 
• pantaloons

• 

Reorder the lullaby sung to Matilda.

• the waters

• Sleep then, pretty one,

• sleep,

• Fast flow

• so deep.

Matilda's dress smelled of ​ (a)   cabbage leaves, ​ (b)   ​ and coal ​ (c)   from the ​ (d)  

• old
• perspiration
• smuts
• train.
• brown
• manure
• vegetables
• cart

What type of snake was found at the house?

Do you think it is Matilda's father who bursts through the door?

• Yes

• No

What do you think will happen now that someone has burst into the house?