Matilda By Roald Dahl Chapter 13

Matilda By Roald Dahl Chapter 13

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Chapter Thirteen (Matilda by Roald Dahl)

CHAPTER THIRTEEN – The Second Miracle.
98 58 Whilst the other children left the classroom and walked towards the playground, Matilda decided that she needed to confide in Miss Honey. Before telling her about what had really happened with the glass of water, Matilda asked Miss Honey if she would really be expelled. What did Miss Honey tell Matilda? Miss Honey told Matilda that it was very unlikely that she would be expelled. Most likely, according to Miss Honey, Trunchbull had just ‘got a little over-excited’.
99 59 After Matilda finally tells Miss Honey about how she had ‘willed the glass to fall over’, the teacher is quite certain that Matilda isn’t meaning to lie, but is caught up in a flight of fantasy. She decides to put an end to the matter as quickly as possible but also gently. How does she try to do this and was she successful? Convinced that she would fail, Miss Honey decides to put an end to Matilda’s flight of fantasy by asking the young girl to repeat the magical feat. Miss Honey’s plan to put an end to the matter was not at all successful, as Matilda was indeed able to repeat the magical feat at will.
100 60 When Miss Honey sees the glass topple over she is nothing short of amazed. When she looks at Matilda, she notices that the young girl seems to be very far away. Where does Matilda say that she was when asked by Miss Honey? When Miss Honey tells Matilda that she seemed so far away after performing the magical feat, Matilda tells her teacher that she shouldn’t worry because she was just ‘flying past the stars on silver wings’.

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Matilda By Roald Dahl Chapter 14

Matilda By Roald Dahl Chapter 14

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Chapter Fourteen (Matilda by Roald Dahl)

CHAPTER FOURTEEN – Miss Honey’s Cottage.
101 61 Amazed by what she had witnessed, Miss Honey asked Matilda if she would like to come home with her for tea. On the way to Miss Honey’s cottage, Matilda appears wildly excited and claims that she feels able to move anything she wants with nothing more than her mind. Miss Honey is more cautious. What reason does she give for this? Matilda is wildly excited by what she has achieved, but Miss Honey is more cautions because, she says, ‘we are dealing with the unknown’.
102 62 With Matilda wildly excited by everything which had happened that afternoon, Miss Honey decides to try and change the topic. How does she do this? Miss Honey decides to change the topic by pointing out all of the different types of trees that line their path, and helps the young girl to be able to distinguish one from the other by the shape of their leaves and the pattern of their bark.
103 63 When they finally reach Miss Honey’s tiny, red brick cottage, she tells Matilda that she always thinks of a few lines of poetry every time that she walks up the path leading to her house. What is the name of the poet who wrote this poem? Dylan Thomas wrote the poem that Miss Honey always thinks of when she walks up the path that leads to her house.
104 64 Why doesn’t Miss Honey require a key to open her front door? Miss Honey doesn’t require a key to open her front door because there is no lock to open.
105 64 Miss Honey asked Matilda to use the well to get her a glass of water. Matilda is amazed and admits that it is the first time that she has ever used a well. Matilda is especially bemused at how Miss Honey could get enough water for a bath. What does Miss Honey tell Matilda that she does instead of taking a bath? Miss Honey tells Matilda that she washes ‘standing up. I get a bucketful of water and I heat it on this little stove and I strip and wash myself all over.’
106 64 Miss Honey tells Matilda that she is very poor. What fact, about what Miss Honey serves for tea, convinces Matilda of this fact. When Miss Honey spreads margarine instead of butter on the bread, Matilda is convinced that Miss Honey must be very poor.
107 65 What does Miss Honey use instead of a table and chairs? Instead of a table and chairs Miss honey simply has three upturned boxes that she uses for the same purpose.
108 65 Whilst eating the bread and margarine prepared by Miss Honey, Matilda thinks about what she would be eating if she was at home. What would this most likely be? If Matilda was at home she would have most likely been ‘tucking into’ buttered toast with strawberry jam followed by a piece of sponge cake.

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Matilda By Roald Dahl Chapter 15

Matilda By Roald Dahl Chapter 15

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Chapter Fifteen (Matilda by Roald Dahl)

CHAPTER FIFTEEN – Miss Honey’s Story.
109 66-67 Curious about why Miss Honey lived in such a simple way, Matilda asks her a few difficult questions about her lifestyle. After an awkward silence, Miss Honey opens up and tells Matilda about her childhood. Miss Honey’s father had been the village doctor and her mother had died when Miss Honey was still very young. Shortly after this first tragedy, Miss Honey’s father also died. How did this happen? Miss Honey’s father committed suicide. However Miss Honey tells Matilda that the death of her father had been very mysterious and no one could believe that he would have taken his own life.
110 68 After the death of her parents, Miss Honey was raised by her aunt who she describes as ‘a demon’ adding that her ‘life became a nightmare’. Why didn’t Miss Honey go to any of her other aunts, uncles or family members for help? Miss Honey tells Matilda that she couldn’t go to any other family member as they were all either dead, or they had gone to Australia.
111 69 Discussing her childhood in some detail, Miss Honey told Matilda that she had always been a bright pupil and, after she finished school, she had the grades to have been accepted into university. Why was she unable to go, however? Miss Honey was unable to go to university as she was needed around the house to do all the work for her aunt.
112 69 Even after Miss Honey started working as a teacher, she was still unable to escape her aunt who had a contract prepared which transferred the vast majority of Miss Honey’s salary straight to her bank account. How much money did Miss Honey get? Miss Honey only got £1a week pocket money, all the rest of her wages went straight to her aunt.
113 70 Miss Honey finally managed to escape when she persuaded a farmer to rent her the cottage I which she now lived. How much did the farmer charge Miss Honey in rent? The farmer couldn’t believe that anyone could live in the cottage as there was no running water or modern appliances. Miss Honey told him that she was a romantic and had fallen in love with the cottage and so he charged her just 10 pence per week.
114 71 Miss Honey tells Matilda that she thinks that her aunt forged documents showing that her father left the family home to her and not to Miss Honey. However Miss Honey was unable to contest this in a court of law for two reasons. First of all she had no money to hire a lawyer and secondly her aunt is a respected member of the community who is believed and trusted by many people in the village. What was the profession of Miss Honey’s aunt and what was her name. Miss Honey’s aunt was a school head mistress and was none other than Miss Trunchbull.

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Matilda By Roald Dahl Chapter 07

Matilda By Roald Dahl Chapter 07

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Chapter Seven (Matilda by Roald Dahl)

CHAPTER SEVEN – The Trunchbull
49. 27 After the class with Matilda, Miss Honey went straight to see Miss Trunchbull. Why was this? Miss Honey wanted to discuss Matilda with Miss Trunchbull. She especially felt that it would be ridiculous to leave such a brilliant student in the bottom class.
50. 27 Dahl describes Miss Trunchbull as a terrifying person. What had she been famous for in her younger days? Miss Trunchbull had been a famous athlete and still possessed the muscles to prove it.
51. 28 Miss Trunchbull knows who Matilda is because she had met her father the previous day. How had this occurred? Miss Trunchbull had gone to Wormwood Motors to buy a car the previous day, and had met Matilda’s father when he sold her a car.
52. 28 Mr Wormwood had warned Miss Trunchbull about his daughter. What had he told her if ‘anything bad ever happened in the school’? Mr Wormwood had told Miss Trunchbull that it was bound to be Matilda’s fault if ‘anything bad ever happened in the school’.
53. 28 During this discussion, what does Miss Trunchbull decide Matilda was guilty of? Miss Trunchbull decides that Matilda was responsible for putting a stink bomb under her desk that morning.
54. 29 Miss Trunchbull is certain that Matilda must be a trouble maker based on what the girl’s father had told her the day before. Nevertheless, Miss Honey carries on praising the little girl and suggests that she is transferred to the top class with the eleven year olds. Why does Miss Trunchbull think Miss Honey wants Matilda transferred to this class? Based on her unshakable belief that Matilda was a ‘gangster’, Miss Trunchbull thinks that Miss Honey must be unable to cope with the young girl and now wants to unload her onto another teacher.
55. 30 Adamant that Matilda was responsible for putting a stink bomb under her desk, Miss Trunchbull tells Miss Honey that she wished that she was ‘still allowed to use the birch and belt as I did in the good old days!’ What does Miss Trunchbull mean by this? The ‘birch and the belt’ refer to corporal punishment. Miss Trunchbull wishes that she could still use the birch, otherwise known as the cane, or a belt to punish Matilda and other unruly students.

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Matilda By Roald Dahl Chapter 08

Matilda By Roald Dahl Chapter 08

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Chapter Eight (Matilda by Roald Dahl)

CHAPTER EIGHT – The Parents.
56. 30 Miss Honey decides that it is useless for Matilda to participate in class activities as she is too advanced for what they will be learning. What does she decide to do about Matilda? Miss Honey borrows a number of advanced textbooks from other teachers and tells Matilda to work though them during class. Then, at the end of each lesson, Matilda can ask Miss Honey any questions that she has about what she has been working on.
57. 30 Whilst watching Matilda diligently work on geometry, whilst the rest of the class learnt their two-times-table, Miss Honey decides that she is going to visit the young girl’s parents to discuss their child’s education. Why does Mr Wormwood tell Miss Honey that her visit was ‘most inconvenient’? Mr Wormwood is not at all happy to see Miss Honey, and at first assumes that Matilda must have gotten into trouble at school. When assured that this wasn’t the case, Mr Wormwood tells Miss Honey that her visit was most inconvenient as they were trying to watch one of their favourite television programmes.
58. 31 Miss Honey is eventually invited into the house and meets Mrs Wormwood who is also angry to have her television programme interrupted. When asked if they were ‘great readers’, Mr Wormwood announces that he was. What does he claim to read cover to cover every week? Mr Wormwood claims to read Autocar and motor, two magazines about cars, cover to cover every week.
59. 33 ‘Looks is more important than books’, Matilda’s mother tells Miss Honey. What, according to her, should a girl spend time thinking about and why? According to Mrs Wormwood, ’a girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on.’
60. 33 Miss Honey tells the Wormwoods that, in addition to her reading prowess, Matilda can do mathematics in her head. Is Matilda’s father impressed by this? Mr Wormwood is not at all impressed by this news scoffing; ‘What’s the point of that when you can buy a calculator?’
61. 33 Despite Matilda’s parent’s lack of regard for their daughters abilities, Miss Honey continues to impress Matilda’s academic potential upon them claiming that, with the right teacher, she could be brought up to university standard in just a few short years. Mr Wormwood is appalled at this idea. What is the only thing that people learn at university, according to him? According to Mr Wormwood, the only thing that people learn at university is ‘bad habits’.

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Matilda By Roald Dahl Chapter 09

Matilda By Roald Dahl Chapter 09

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Chapter Nine (Matilda by Roald Dahl)

CHAPTER NINE – Throwing the Hammer.
62. 34 Matilda found it easy to make friends at school, and never tried to impress anyone or show off about her intelligence. One of her closest friends at school was a young girl called Lavender. Both girls liked each other for the same reason. What was this? Each girl thought the other to be ‘gutsy and adventurous’ and they liked each other very much as a result.
63. 34 The new students in the bottom class were soon told many stories about Miss Trunchbull or ‘The Trunchbull’ as she was known. One older student tells Lavender and Matilda that Trunchbull hates the bottom class most of all. What reason does the student give for this? The older student tells Lavender and Matilda that Trunchbull hates the bottom class most of all because she hates very small children.
64. 34-35 Lavender and Matilda are told many horrible stories about The Trunchbull. Some of these involve ‘The Chokey’. What was ‘The Chokey’

‘The Chokey’ was used by Trunchbull to punish students.  It was a very tall but very narrow cupboard. The inside of the door and the three inside walls were covered in broken glass. Students would be locked inside ‘The Chokey’ for hours at a time and had to spend all of this time standing to attention or cut themselves on the glass.

 

65. 35 An older girl called Hortensia tells Lavender and Matilda that she had been made to stand in the Chokey six times during her first term. What had she done to deserve this punishment the first time? Hortensia tells Lavender and Matilda that she had been made to stand in ‘The Chokey’ for the first time because she had poured a tin of golden syrup on a chair just before Trunchbull sat down on it at prayers.
66. 35-36 On another occasion, Hortensia had been sentenced to ‘The Chokey’ when she managed to sneak into Trunchbull’s office. Finding the drawer which contained her gym knickers, what did Hortensia sprinkle into each pair? Hortensia had ordered some packets of high power itching powder and sprinkled the contents of these packets into each pair of Trunchbull’s knickers.
67. 36 As punishment for putting itching powder in Trunchbull’s knickers, Hortensia was sentenced to a full day in ‘The Chokey’. How did Trunchbull know that Hortensia was guilty? Trunchbull didn’t know who was guilty for the itching powder but, as Hortensia tells Lavender, Trunchbull has a knack of guessing who is to blame and, on this occasion, guessed correctly.
68. 37 Hortensia tells Lavender and Matilda about Julius Rottwinkle who was thrown out of an open window by Trunchbull and ended up with a number of broken bones as a result. What had Rottwinkle done to deserve this? Rottwinkle was thrown out of the window by Trunchbull because she caught him eating Liquorice Allsorts during Scripture class.
69. 37 We have already been told that, in her younger years, Trunchbull was an athlete. What sport had she competed in for Britain at the Olympics? Trunchbull had thrown the hammer for Britain at the Olympics.
70. 37-38 Whilst Hortensia, Lavender and Matilda are talking – the playground suddenly fell silent as Trunchbull walked out looking for Amanda Tripp. What had Tripp done wrong and how was she punished? Over the course of the holidays, Amanda Tripp had let her hair grow even longer than before and her mother had plaited it into pigtails. According to Hortensia, if there is one thing Trunchbull hates it is Pigtails. Trunchbull tells Tripp that she is to have her pigtails cut off that evening before grabbing the terrified girl by her hair and swinging her around and around like an Olympic hammer and launched her over the school fence.

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