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1. What is the name of the author?
Kenneth Grahame
2. In what year was the book published?
1908.
3. Which president of the United States was an admirer of The Wind in the Willows?
Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt
4. What is the meaning of ‘Dulce Domum’?
'Sweetly Home'
5. Passing through a village on the way home, Rat and Mole stopped to look with curiosity at something through the window of a house. What was it?
A pet bird in a cage (page 77)
6. What was it that “sent out its scouts and messengers to Mole to capture him and bring him in”?
Home (page 79)
7. What did Rat find in Mole’s cellar that would contribute to the homecoming repast?
Four bottles of beer (page 88)
8. Soon after Mole returns home, who calls at his door?
Field mice Christmas Carolers (page 89)
10. Toad requested of Rat, who was keeping an eye on him, that he fetch him two people. What two people?
A doctor and a lawyer (pages 108 / 109)
11. What did Mole use to escape out his bedroom window?
He tied bedsheets together. (page 109)
12. Can you recall the name of the pub in which Toad ate a late breakfast on the morning he escaped the watch of Rat?
The Red Lion (page 110)
13. Of what was Toad found guilty and sentenced to gaol?
Stealing a car, dangerous driving, impertinence to the police. (page 112)
14. Recall the name of Otter’s son, who went missing.
Portly (page 117)
15. What demigod called Rat and Mole to the whereabouts of Otter’s missing son, and what instrument does he play?
Pan; plays the pipe.
16. What theme of Wind in the Willows did we discuss last week, and is exemplified by the chapter The Piper at the Gates of Dawn?
Understanding the world by listening to nature.
17. Say three things that have called ‘imperiously’ thus far in the story.
The Spring; Home; Pan.
