Chapters 1-2

Question 1

squandered

Answer 1

wasted

Question 2

vouchsafed

Answer 2

granted

Question 3

What season is the opening of Chapter 2?

Answer 3

summer

Question 4

At the opening of Chapter 2, what favor does Mole ask of Ratty?

Answer 4

to take him to meet toad

Question 5

What season is it when the book opens?

Answer 5

spring

Question 6

What caused Toad’s great epiphany?

Answer 6

the motor-car

Question 7

What is it that Rat does not want Mole to ever refer to again?

Answer 7

Wide World

Question 8

Which character takes on the role of a mentor?

Answer 8

Ratty

Question 9

emancipated

Answer 9

liberated/ freed

Question 10

impromptu

Answer 10

unplanned

Question 11

weir

Answer 11

a dam in a river

Question 12

Name three worlds discussed in Chapter 1

Answer 12

River, Wild Wood, Wide World

Question 13

Who says, “Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing”?

Answer 13

Ratty

Question 14

downs

Answer 14

rolling, grassy land

Question 15

What literary device is used in “he proceeded to play upon the inexperienced Mole as on a harp?”

Answer 15

simile

Question 16

copses

Answer 16

small groupings of trees

Question 17

What does Toad request of Mole and Ratty?

Answer 17

to travel on the open road with him

Question 18

voluble

Answer 18

talkative

Question 19

punt

Answer 19

to propel a boat by pushing against the river bottom with a pole

Question 20

common

Answer 20

land owned or used by all the people of a ommunity