Comprehension Questions – Magic Tree House #5 Night of the Ninjas

Night of the Ninjas

By Mary Pope Osborne

Grades 2-5; Genre - Historical Fiction with Fantastical Elements; GRL M; AR pts: 1.0

Merlin has placed a magic spell on Morgan and Jack and Annie need to find four special things to help her.  In Night of the Ninjas Jack and Annie go to Japan and run into ninjas who end up helping them find the first special thing.

Vocabulary

Writing Prompts

Comprehension Questions

Chapter 1

  1. How did Jack and Annie feel about the tree house being back? Happy/excited  p.  5
  2. What did the letter “M” on the floor of the tree house stand for? Morgan le Fay   p. 7
  3. What ran out from behind a stack of books in the tree house?  A mouse   p. 8
  4. What did Annie name the mouse?  Peanut   p. 8

Chapter 2

  1. How many things do Jack and Annie need to find to help Morgan? 4   p. 10
  2. What was the book that was lying open in the tree house?  A book about ninjas    p. 12
  3. Where did Annie put Peanut after she said, “I wish we could go there”? sweatshirt pouch    p. 13

Chapter 3

  1. What did the ninjas wear? Black pants and shirts, black scarves around their heads, swords  p. 15
  2. Where did the tree house take Jack and Annie?  Japan     p. 16
  3. What type of animal did the ninjas act like?  Cats     p. 18

Chapter 4

  1. Where did Jack want to go after the ninjas crawled out of the tree house?  Pennsylvania    p. 23
  2. What did Annie want to do?  Follow the ninjas to help Morgan    p. 23
  3. Why do you think the ninjas didn’t speak?  To be sneaky and mysterious
  4. How did Jack and Annie get across the icy cold stream?  The ninjas carried them across    p. 26

Chapter 5

  1. What was coming from the valley below?  Torches    p. 29
  2. Where did Jack think the ninjas disappeared to?   A cave      p. 31
  3. Was he right?   Yes     p. 32

Chapter 6

  1. Who was in the cave sitting on a mat?  Ninja warrior     p. 33
  2. Were Jack and Annie surprised that one of the ninjas is a girl?   Yes      p. 36
  3. Why couldn’t the ninja master help them?   The samurai were close, Jack and Annie had to prove they were worthy of his help     p. 37
  4. Who are the samurai?  Fierce Japanese fighters    p. 37

Chapter 7

  1. What were the three things the ninja warrior told Jack and Annie to help them be like ninjas?  Use nature, be nature, follow nature     p. 40
  2. How did the children “use nature”?  Pushed a stick in the ground and looked at its shadow   p. 43
  3. What came down the mountain that scared Jack and Annie?  A samurai warrior    p. 47

Chapter 8

  1. How did Jack and Annie act like ninjas when they needed to “be nature”? like rocks    p. 48
  2. How were the children supposed to “follow nature”? They needed to follow Peanut    p. 54
  3. How did Peanut get across the icy stream? She crossed on a fallen branch  p. 54

Chapter 9

  1. What instruction did the children follow when they pretended to be mice? “be nature”    p. 55
  2. Where did Jack and Annie find Peanut after she disappeared? In the tree house    p. 59
  3. Who else was in the tree house?  The ninja master    p. 59
  4. What did he give Jack?  A moonstone    p. 60

Chapter 10

  1. What did Annie use to make a bed for Peanut?  Her sock     p. 66
  2. What did Jack and Annie act like as they went home? Two shadow warriors  p. 69