Book: Hansel and Gretel
Author: Jane Ray
ISBN: 0-7636-0358-9
U$1.00-B-0.006065-BE-165
Comments: This book has beautiful drawings.
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Questions
1. What are the names of the children?
2. Why do you think the woodcutter's wife suggested to leave the children in the forest?
3. How did the woodcutter react by the wife's suggestion of walking the children into the forest?
4. Did the father listen to his wife in abandoning the children?
5. What did Hansel get in the middle of the night?
6. Who woke the children up the next day?
7. What was Hansel looking back at when they walked to the forest to chop wood?
8. What material did the woodcutter use to create the fire?
9. How did Hansel find his way home the first night?
10. How much time in days or years does this sentence mean to you, "Not long afterward, another famine fell upon the land"?
11. What was different the night before they went to the forest than the previous night when they were taken to the forest?
12. If the children knew they were going to be left in the forest, why do you think they took a nap? If you were them, wouldn't you be scared? Could you sleep knowing you were being left in a forest?
13. Who ate all the crumbs that Hansel dropped as a trail?
14. What did the children eat the first day they were lost in the forest?
15. Day 3, what type of bird did they see?
16. Where did the bird lead them?
17. Describe the house.
18. What parts of the house did the children begin to eat?
19. How was the old lady who lived in the house dressed?
20. What did the old lady offer the children so they can go inside the gingerbread house?
21. What did the children do after they ate?
22. The old woman who seemed so kind was really a __________.
23. Why did the witch build the gingerbread house?
24. Why are witches eyes particular?
25. What is particular about witches smell?
26. This witch preferred adults or children to eat?
27. What did the witch do with Hansel the next morning?
28. What did the witch have Gretel do while her brother, Hansel, was in a cage?
29. What was Gretel fed?
30. What did Hansel do to trick the witch?
31. How did Gretel trick the witch?
32. What did Gretel do after she locked the witch in the oven?
33. What do Hansel and Gretel take from the witch's house?
34. How do Hansel and Gretel cross the river?
35. How did the children's father react when he saw his children?
36. What happened to the stepmother?
37. Is there a connection with the stepmother and the witch?
38. Do you find the father to be innocent of nay wrongdoing?
39. Do you think it was ok for the children to take the witch's gold and jewels?
40. Do you think it was ok for the father to accept the witch's gold and jewels?
Author: Jane Ray
ISBN: 0-7636-0358-9
U$1.00-B-0.006065-BE-165
Comments: This book has beautiful drawings.
Go to Answer Key
Go to Directory of Books
Questions
1. What are the names of the children?
2. Why do you think the woodcutter's wife suggested to leave the children in the forest?
3. How did the woodcutter react by the wife's suggestion of walking the children into the forest?
4. Did the father listen to his wife in abandoning the children?
5. What did Hansel get in the middle of the night?
6. Who woke the children up the next day?
7. What was Hansel looking back at when they walked to the forest to chop wood?
8. What material did the woodcutter use to create the fire?
9. How did Hansel find his way home the first night?
10. How much time in days or years does this sentence mean to you, "Not long afterward, another famine fell upon the land"?
11. What was different the night before they went to the forest than the previous night when they were taken to the forest?
12. If the children knew they were going to be left in the forest, why do you think they took a nap? If you were them, wouldn't you be scared? Could you sleep knowing you were being left in a forest?
13. Who ate all the crumbs that Hansel dropped as a trail?
14. What did the children eat the first day they were lost in the forest?
15. Day 3, what type of bird did they see?
16. Where did the bird lead them?
17. Describe the house.
18. What parts of the house did the children begin to eat?
19. How was the old lady who lived in the house dressed?
20. What did the old lady offer the children so they can go inside the gingerbread house?
21. What did the children do after they ate?
22. The old woman who seemed so kind was really a __________.
23. Why did the witch build the gingerbread house?
24. Why are witches eyes particular?
25. What is particular about witches smell?
26. This witch preferred adults or children to eat?
27. What did the witch do with Hansel the next morning?
28. What did the witch have Gretel do while her brother, Hansel, was in a cage?
29. What was Gretel fed?
30. What did Hansel do to trick the witch?
31. How did Gretel trick the witch?
32. What did Gretel do after she locked the witch in the oven?
33. What do Hansel and Gretel take from the witch's house?
34. How do Hansel and Gretel cross the river?
35. How did the children's father react when he saw his children?
36. What happened to the stepmother?
37. Is there a connection with the stepmother and the witch?
38. Do you find the father to be innocent of nay wrongdoing?
39. Do you think it was ok for the children to take the witch's gold and jewels?
40. Do you think it was ok for the father to accept the witch's gold and jewels?
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