Frank Baum: “The Wizard of Oz”
Questions to the chapters
Chapter 1 (pp5-7)
- What was the colour of the prairie and why?
- What was the colour of Aunt Em’s eyes and why?
- Was Toto he or she?
- Why was the house raised into the air?
Chapter 2 (pp7-11)
- Prove the Good Witch to be old.
- Why was the Witch of the East wicked?
- Why were soon only silver shoes left?
- What was so magic about these shoes?
- Where was the country of Oz?
- Why was the Witch sure that nobody would hurt the girl?
- How could Dorothy find the way to the country of Oz?
Chapter 3 (pp12-16)
- What did Dorothy eat?
- Why did she put the silver shoes on?
- Where did she put the key to her house?
- What was the main colour of the country where she was?
- She knew about terrible and dangerous places ahead. Why did she still want to go?
- What colour was the Scarecrow?
- Why was the Scarecrow glad that his body was stuffed with straw?
- Why did Toto bark at the Scarecrow?
- What was the huge plus of the Scarecrow in comparison with people? ( по сравнению с )
Chapter 4 (pp16-20)
- Why couldn’t the Scarecrow eat?
- What proverb did Dorothy say about Kansas?
- How old was the Scarecrow?
- What was strange about the Scarecrow’s eyes?
- Why did the Scarecrow feel sad on the corn-field?
- Who advised him to get some brains and what for?
- How did the Scarecrow sleep?
Chapter 5 (pp20-24)
- Why was the Scarecrow better than any human being? (4 reasons)
- What is better to have a heart or brains? (according to the Tin Woodman).
- Who and why broke the life of the Tin Woodman?
- Why was the Tin Woodman so unhappy?
- Why was he afraid of rains?
- What did he have to do every morning?
Chapter 6 (pp24-27)
- Prove that Toto was really frightened by the Lion.
- What was the Tin Woodman sorry for?
- Who helped the Tin Woodman to open his mouth and how?
Chapter 7 (pp27-31)
- What did Dorothy, Toto and the Lion eat for supper?
- Who was the first to jump on the Lion’s back across the ditch and why?
- What was the first brave deed of the Lion?
- How did they get across the second ditch?
- Who was the first to go and why?
- What was the second deed of the Lion?
- What did they do before going to bed?
Chapter 8 (pp31-35)
- Why were the friends carried away so fast?
- How did they lose the Scarecrow?
- What was the third brave deed of the Lion?
- Prove that Dorothy wasn’t so much upset about the loss of the Scarecrow?
- What was dangerous about the poppy field?
- What happened to the Lion?
Chapter 9 (pp 35-38)
- How did the yellow beast look like?
- What animal was it?
- Who killed it and why?
- What was a little grey field- mouse?
- How did the friends get the Lion from the field? (5 points)
- What was Dorothy doing while the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman were saving the Lion and why?
- What did the Mouse say when parting with the friends?
Chapter 10 (pp 38-43)
- How did they find the yellow brick road?
- What was the colour of everything in this country and why?
- Why didn’t the people of this country try to speak to Dorothy?
- How could Oz look like?
- Where should courage be (in the Oz’s Throne room)?
- Why didn’t Toto say anything about his wish?
- What were the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman doing through all the night?
- Why did the friends have to put spectacles on?(2 reasons)
Chapter 11 (pp 43-50)
- What did the children buy at one of the corners of the street?
- Why did the people of the Emerald city look at Toto with surprise?
- How did Oz and his soldier speak with each other?
- Oz agreed to see the friends with one reservation (оговорка). Which one?
- Why did they all live in separate rooms?
- What did Dorothy find in the wardrobe of her room?
- Why couldn’t the Scarecrow sleep?
- What did the Tin Woodman do during that night?
- How did Oz look like when Dorothy came into the Throne room?
- How did Oz get to know about the death of the Witch of the East?
- Why should Oz help Dorothy? (according to her)
- How did Oz look like when the Scarecrow came into the Throne room?
- How did Oz look like when the Tin Woodman came into the Throne room?
- How did Oz look like when the Lion came into the Throne room?
- What was the only condition of Oz to help the friends?
Chapter 12 (pp 50-58)
- What was the colour of Dorothy’s dress (from the wardrobe)?
- What was so special in the appearance of the Wicked Witch of the West (W WW)?
- How did the WWW try to kill the friends for the first time?
- How were the friends saved? Who was the hero?
- How did the WWW try to kill them for the second time?
- How were they saved? Who was the hero now?
- What was the third attempt (попытка)?
- Why couldn’t “they” hurt Dorothy, Toto and the Lion?
- Why did “they” die?
- What was the fourth attempt to kill the friends?
- Who was the hero this time?
- How many times could the Golden Cap be used?
- What should one do with the Cap to call the Winged Monkeys?
- What did the Monkeys do with the friends?
- How did the WWW know that Dorothy knew nothing about the magic power of the silver shoes?
- What kind of work did Dorothy do in the kitchen?
- Why wasn’t the Lion hungry sitting in the cage?
- What was the WWW afraid of?(2 things)
- Why did the WWW melt?
- Why did Dorothy pour a pail of water over the WWW?
Chapter 13 (pp 58-60)
- What was the first deed of Dorothy after “killing” the WWW?
- How long did it take the yellow people to find and mend the Tin Woodman?
- Where and how did they get the Scarecrow?
- Who did the yellow people want to stay in their country and why?
- Why did Dorothy return to the WWW’s palace?
- Why did she take the Golden Cap?
Chapter 14 (pp 60-62)
- How did the friends find the road to the Emerald City?
- Who did they call to help them?
- How did_________ help them?
- Why should the friends wait before calling the Monkeys?
- How long did it take the Monkeys to carry the friends to the Emerald City?
Chapter 15 (pp 63-69)
- Why did the people of the Emerald City bow low to Dorothy?
- How long did the friends have to wait for Oz to see them?
- Why were the friends angry with Oz?
- Why did Oz agree to see them at last?
- Where did Oz hide?
- How did he really look like?
- What was Oz afraid of?
- How did the Great Head work?
- Where was Oz from?
- How did he find himself in the Emerald City?
- Why were the people there ready to do everything for Oz?
- What was Oz good at?
- Who was Oz afraid of?
- Why did Oz say that the Scarecrow didn’t need any brains?
- Why did Oz say that the Tin Woodman didn’t need any heart?
- Why did Oz say that the Lion didn’t need any courage ?
Chapter 16 (pp 69-71)
- What were the Scarecrow’s brains made of?
- What does it mean to have “sharp brains”?
- What was the Tin Woodman’s heart made of?
- What does it mean to have “a soft heart”?
- What should the Lion do to get courage?
Chapter 17(pp 72-74)
- What was Oz’s plan for Dorothy to get to Kansas?
- Who wanted to get to Kansas too and why?
- Who did Oz appoint to rule the country and why?
- Why didn’t Dorothy fly away?
- Why would the people of the country remember Oz forever?
Chapter 18 (pp 74-76)
- What was the Scarecrow’s idea how to get to Kansas?
- Why couldn’t the Monkeys do it?
- Who advised the friends to go to Glinda?
- What was so special about Glinda?
- What was the problem to get there?
- What were the reasons of the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Lion to join Dorothy?
Chapter 19 (pp76-78)
- What did they cross to reach the magic forest?
- What was the problem with the trees?
- What was the main responsibility (task) of the first trees?
- What was there behind the forest?
Chapter 20 (pp78-80)
- How did a new country look like?
- What was strange about the people of the country?
- Why did the friends jump down on the Scarecrow?
- Why did the cow break its leg?
- Why didn’t the princess want Dorothy to run after her?
- Why didn’t the princess want to go with Dorothy to Kansas?
- Who carried the friends over the china wall?
Chapter 21 (pp 80-83)
- What was the meeting of the animals about?
- How did the spider look like?
- What was the spider’s weak point?
- What was the spider doing when it was killed?
Chapter 22 (pp 83-86)
- How did the guardians of the hill look like?
- What was their strongest point and how did it work?
- How many guardians were there?
- How did the friends get over the hill?
- What was so great about the country?
- Who guided the palace of Glinda?
Chapter 23 (pp 86-89)
- Why did Glinda ask Dorothy for the Golden Cap?
- Where would the Scarecrow like to return?
- Where would the Tin Woodman like to return?
- Where would the Lion like to return?
- What would Glinda do then with the Monkeys?
- When could Dorothy return home?
- Why didn’t she do it earlier?
- What should one do to make one’s dream come true?
- What happened with the silver shoes?
- What was Uncle Henry doing when Dorothy appeared?
Chapter 24 (p.89)
- How long was Dorothy away from home?