Name: _____________________ Arthur's Thanksgiving Quiz Directions: Use the vocabulary words to complete the following sentences.

narrator desperate governor grumbled glamorous intelligent recited secretly

1. _______________ means complained. 2. _______________ means full of glamour, attractive. 3. _______________ means being beyond or almost without hope. 4. _______________ means person who tells the story. 5. _______________ means to repeat from memory. 6. _______________ means working in secrecy. 7. _______________ means having or showing intelligence. 8. _______________ means a person who governs, the elected head of government. Directions: For numbers 9-18 circle the best answer to each question. 9. What was the name of the play in the story? a. The Big Turkey Hunt b. Turkey Hunting c. Thanksgiving Day d. A Pilgrim Party 10. What is the teacher's name in the story? a. Mrs. Mouse b. Mr. Mouse c. Mrs. Ratburn

d. Mr. Ratburn 11. What was Arthur's first job as director? a. set the stage b. create the props c. write a script d. assign parts in the play 12. What is the symbol of Thanksgiving in the play? a. the Mayflower b. the turkey c. the Pilgrims d. the governor 13. Francine gave Arthur two ___________ to bride him. a. suckers b. cookies c. cupcakes d. spacemen 14. The narrator in the play was _____________. a. Buster b. Brain c. Binky Barnes d. Francine 15. What role did Buster play? a. the turkey b. the Indian Princess c. Governor Bradford d. the narrator

16. His father could not be the turkey because__________________. a. he didnt like turkey b. he was sick c. he had to go to work d. he had a dentist appointment

17. Francine would not take off her_________________. a. hat b. movie-star glasses c. her purse d. her movie-star scarf 18. Who gave Arthur the idea to just be the turkey himself? a. D.W. b. his mother c. his father d. Buster Directions: For 19 and 20, answer each question using complete sentences. 19. What was the main problem in this story? _____________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________

20. What was the setting of the story? Time______________________________________________________________ Place______________________________________________________________