CHAPTERS 9 AND 10 The Parents/ Throwing the Hammer

While Miss Honey was teaching the rest of the class, Matilda studied:

• Miss Honey’s notes

• From Text books’

• From extra readers

Miss Honey decided to pay a visit to:

• Matilda’s father

• Her mother

• Her parents at their home.

On her arrival at the Wormwood house the family were:

• Eating supper.

• Watching television

• Watching television and eating supper.

Miss Honey explained her visit:

• Matilda was causing trouble

• She was able to multiply using a calculator

• Could multiply in her head.

Mr Wormwood was

• Pro University

• Against University

• Believed University was only for males.

Matilda found:

• It was difficult to make friends

• that she was liked by most people

• it was easy to make friends as everyone in the class liked her.

Hortensia had played a trick on Miss Trunchbull by pouring

• Super Glue on her chair

• Honey on her desk

• Syrup on her chair

Hotensia was

• Caught red-handed

• Not caught but she was spoken to by the headmistress

• Sent to the Chokey anyway.

Hotensia also put

• Itching powder in Miss Trunchbull’s knickers

• Itching powder in her gym clothes

• Itching powder all over her chair.

Hortensia told Matilda and Lavender about

• A. A large cupboard with spikes on the door in the headmistress’s office

• B. A tall cupboard with spikes on the door in the headmistress’s office

• C. A steel cupboard with a lock in the headmistress’s office.