Available Answers

1. 1.

   Which three items did the boys hide under the loose floor-board?

2. 2.

   What did the boys want to do with the dead mouse first? What did they do with it in the end?

3. 3.

   How did the boys decide who should hide the dead mouse?

4. 4.

   Why did Thwaites buy a Sherbet Sucker and a Bootlace?

5. 5.

   Why was the dead mouse put in the Gobstopper jar?

6. 6.

   'We were strutting a little as we entered the shop.'

   1. Who are 'we' here?
   2. Into which shop did they enter? Why did they go to the shop?
   3. What does the above sentence tell you about the way they were feeling?