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1. 1.

   Find words from the story to complete the crossword puzzle given below:

   

   Clues:

   Across:

   1. make money
   2. wonderful
   3. game
   4. plans
   5. under
   6. car

   Down

   1. start
   2. grateful
   3. plotting
   4. command
2. 2.

   Make sentences with the given words:

   1. honourable
   2. unbearable
   3. emotionally
   4. exhausted
   5. finance
   6. crouching
3. 3.

   Explain the following:

   1. But the new game...... life more or less bearable.
   2. going round the bend.
   3. "That's a lot of sums," the boy said.
   4. "Daddy, I'm on the other side ...... could I possibly see it?"
4. 4.

   Think and write any word / words that describe each of the following characters in the story:

   1. Matilda
   2. Mr. Wormwood
   3. Mrs. Wormwood
   4. Master Wormwood
5. 5.

   Complete the following sentences:

   1. Being very small and very young, the only power ________
   2. Thus Matilda was always forced to do _________
   3. Matilda always had to stay alone on _________
   4. The appalling broad, orange-and-green __________ the onlooker.
6. 6.

   When did Matilda's father become less objectionable?