The Monkey’s Paw

Chapter 1

1. What was the name of the White family’s guest?

Sergeant Major Morris
2. What strange object did the sergeant major show the family?

A monkey’s paw

3. What was special about he monkey’s paw?

Is magic, gives three wishes.

4, What did Sergeant Major Morris suddenly do with the monkey’s paw, and what was
Willam’s reaction to this?

Threw it into the fire, he pull off from the fire.

Chapter 2

1. According to Sergeant Major Morris, what must Mr White do to make a wish?

Keep it.

2 What did Herbert tel! his father to wish for?

Pay the mortgage, 200£

3, What happened to the monkey’s paw when Mr White wished for £200?

The monkey’s paw start to moved.

4, What did Mary find in the letters and how did she react to this?

Chapter 3

1. What was Mary duing instead of listening to her husband?

Watching a man in the outside.
2. Who sent the visitor?
The company where Herbert was working.
3. What happened to Herbert?
He had a an accident with a machine and died.
4. What does Maw and Meggins want to do because of Herbert’s hard work over the years?
Pay them £200.

Chapter 4

1. Why does Mary want the monkey’s paw?

To make another wish. To make her son alive again.
2. What happened a few minutes after Mr White made his second wish?
The monkey’s paw fell and appears a mouse, that was Herbert.

3. What, in your opinion. Was Mr White’s third wish?

4. What did Mary see when she opened the door?

There was nobody.

The Judge’s House

Chapter 1

1. Why was Malcom Malcolmson frustrated?

Because his house was always busy and it was imposible to find peace.
2. What did Malcolm decide to do to solve this problem?
Go away.
3. What did Malcolm notice on the roof of the old stone house in Benchurch?
There was a bell with a rope hanging down into the house.
4. How much did it cost Malcolm to rent the Judge’s house?
£50 a month.
5. What did the Judge do to his prisoners more than 100 years ago?
Sentenced many innocent prisoners to torture and death.
6. What were the first things that Malcolm saw when he went inside the house for the first
time?
A fireplace, a table, chairs and a high blacked oak chair.

Chapter 2

1. What noise did Malcolm hear on his first night in the Judge’s house?
Rats.

2. What did Malcolm see after all the rats became silent and what did he try to do after
this?
He saw a rat sitting on the oak chair. Grabbed a polcer from beside the fireplace and
ran to kill the rat

3. What did Mrs Witham say the rat might be and who did she mean by this?
A pale, because he didn’t sleep well.
4. How did the rat escape when Malcolm chased it?
It jumped from the black chair on the rope and go into the wall.
5. What book hit the rat?
The Bible.

Chapter 3

1. What did Malcolm ask Mrs Dempster to clean and why?

The painting on the wall.

2. Who was sitting with Mrs Witham at the Good Traveller Inn?
Dr Thornill.

3. What did the hangman use the rope for?

 For all his victims.
4. What was in the painting on the wall?
An evil-looking judge in a scarlet rope.
5. What did Malcolm notice when he looked closely at the Judge?
The Judge had the same siniester eyes as the rat.

Chapter 4

1. What was the rat doing to the rope and what happened to the rope because of this?
Was chewing the rope, cut it and the bottom and fell in the floor.

2. Why did Malcolm get a terrible shock when he shone the lamp on the painting?
The background was the same but the figure wasn’t in the painting.
3. What did the Judge do after the bell sounded in the town centre?
He smiled and put the black cap on his head, took the rope and tie it into a noose.
4. What made the bell start to ring loudly?
The rats moved the bell.
5. What did the Judge do after putting the noose around Malcolm’s neck and placing
Malcolm on the oak chair?
Carried Malcom body’s and placed into the black chair. Tied the end of the noose to
the rope, got down from the chair and pulled it away.

The Metamorphosis

Chapter 1
1. What was Gregor Samsa’s job and where did he live?
Traveling salesman. In Prague.
2. What was Gregor socked to discover when he tried to get out of bed?
He was a giant insect, a cockroach.
3. Who came to the Samsas’ house looking for Gregor?
Gregor’s mother.
4. How did Gregor open the door?
With his jaws to turn the key.

Chapter 2

1. Did Gregor enjoy eating the sweetened milk?

No. The milk disgusted him.
2. What did Gregor do to calm himself?
Came out from under the desk and relaxed in the centre of the room.
3. What other food did Grete bring to Gregor after she found the uneaten milk?
Vegetables, almonds, moudly cheese, slice of bread and butter.
4. What must Mr and Mra Samsa and Grete do when Gregor’s money is finished?
Find a job.
5. Where did Gregor crawl “for fun”?
Across the walls.
Chapter 3

1. Why does Grete want to move the furniture out of Gregor’s room?
So he don’t hurt himself walking on the walls.
2. Why did Gregor climb on the wall when his mother and sister were out of his room?
Try to hide a picture on the wall with his body.
3. What wounded Gregor in the face?
A piece of glass from a broken bottle.

4. Who rang the doorbell?

Mr Samsa
5. What did Mr Samsa throw at Gregor?
An apple.

Chapter 4

1. Why did Gregor’s wound become infected?

Nobody removed the apple from Gregor’shell.
2. What jobs did the Samsa family do to help pay the bills?
Mr Samsa was a servant, Mrs Samsa was a sawed clothing for a fashion shop. Grete was a
salesgirl.
3. What instrument was Grete playing and how did the lodgers react to it?
Violin, they where impressed.
4. What did Gregor do as morning approached?
Watched the sun rise in the sky, he breathed his last breath and die.