Comprehension Questions- Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic

By Betty MacDonald

Grades 2-6; Genre - Fantasy; GRL O; AR pts: 5.0

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is at it again teaching children good manners through her clever cures and potions.  Some of the ailments she helps parents through are tattletaling, bad eating habits, carelessness, interrupting, and being ignorant.

Comprehension Questions

Chapter 1

  1. How did Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle react when the children who were playing at her house broke or ruined anything?  She would help them fix it, she made them feel like they were more important than her things    P. 2
  2. What did Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle do with the gifts the children gave her? She used them and kept them where everyone could see them   P. 4
  3. What does Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle like to listen to? The children’s dreams    p. 5

Chapter 2

  1. What kind of phase were the Burbank children going through? Thought-you-said phase    P. 12
  2. What did Mr. and Mrs. Burbank try to do with their own speech? Speak clearly    P. 14
  3. How did the powder help the children in the “thought-you-said” phase? Made their hearing very keen    P. 17
  4. How did the children feel when the powder was sprinkled on their ears? Miserable, they didn’t change what people said any more    p. 22

Chapter 3

  1. Why do the kids at school dislike Wendy? She’s a tattletale    p. 26
  2. What did Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle give Wendy and Timmy to stop their tattletaling? 4 black pills  p. 31
  3. What happened as soon as the children started to tattletale? Black smoke came out of their mouths and went up to the ceiling   p. 33
  4. How did the smoke help the children stop tattletaling? They didn’t like seeing all of the yucky smoke that they made floating on the ceiling   p. 38

Chapter 4

  1. What did Christopher eat like? A starving wild animal    p. 39
  2. Who is Lester? Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s pig   p. 42
  3. What is Lester like? He eats at the table, has good manners, sleeps in the basement, quiet   p. 43
  4. Why didn’t Lester want to eat the spareribs? They're made out of pork  p. 51

Chapter 5

  1. What does it mean to interrupt someone? To talk when someone else is already talking   p. 60
  2. What did Mrs. Franklin do if the children started to interrupt? Blow magic powder on them p. 64
  3. What did the magic powder do when the children interrupted?  Their mouths would snap open or closed    p. 68
  4. Who else needed the interrupting powder?  Mr. and Mrs. Franklin   p. 69

Chapter 6

  1. What does heedless mean? To be careless   p. 70
  2. Why does Sharon need the Heedless Breaker Cure? She breaks everything around her and hurts people    p.72
  3. How does the magic powder from Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle work? It makes you move very slowly and carefully  p. 77
  4. How did Sharon feel when she had the magic powder sprinkled on her? Slow, floaty, everything is easy   p.  84

Chapter 7

  1. What did Jody say was wrong so he didn’t have to go to school?  He was sick    p. 87
  2. What would Jody do while the other children went to school?  Worked on his tree house  p.  89
  3. What does ignorance mean?  Not having information or knowledge
  4. What did the “IGNORANCE TONIC” do to Jody?  He didn’t know anything.  He couldn’t talk or think right anymore.  P. 98

Chapter 8

  1. Why were the children disappointed when it started raining?   They were supposed to go on a hike with Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle   p. 108
  2. What did Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle want the children to help her find?   Secret drawers and cupboards with money in them   p.116
  3. What was Mimi supposed to do to see if the gold coin was lucky?  Rub it hard between her thumb and first finger   p. 122
  4. Was the pirate’s lucky piece lucky?   Yes   p. 124