Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Chapters 1-8

Reading Check

1. She needs medicine for Timothy, who is sick. (Chapter 1)

2. Go to the rats (Chapter 8)

3. Four children (Chapter 1)

4. Mr. Fitzgibbon will plow the garden. (Chapter 5)

5. She is Jonathan Frisby’s husband. (Chapter 7)

6. In a cinder block at the Fitzgibbon farm (Chapter 1)

7. Dragon the cat (Chapter 3)

Short Answer

1. Mrs. Frisby is worried that Timothy will die if he is exposed to the cold, and she does not know how to solve the problem since the plowing will happen in five days, so she must move her family or the plow will kill them when it destroys their home. (Chapter 4)

2. Mrs. Frisby sets Jeremy the crow free from some string, and he repays her by taking her to see the owl in the forest. (Chapters 3 and 6)

3. Mrs. Frisby rides on Jeremy’s back even though she is afraid of heights. (Chapters 6)

Chapters 9-18

Reading Check

1. Brutus the rat (Chapter 10)

2. Mr. Ages tells the rats she is Jonathan Frisby’s wife (

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