Comprehension Questions- Horrid Henry and the Mummy’s Curse

Horrid Henry and the Mummy’s Curse

By Francesca Simon

Grades 3-5; Genre - Fiction; GRL M; AR pts: 1.0

In the first story Horrid Henry and Perfect Peter are both collecting toys that come in Sweet Tweet cereal boxes.  In the next story, Henry wants to get a perfect score on his spelling test to earn a bag of candy, but fails to study.  The third story’s about Henry taking swim lessons and the last story is about Henry wanting to use Perfect Peter’s mummy kit and how he tricks him to be able to play with it.

Comprehension Questions

Story 1

  1. What were Perfect Peter and Horrid Henry collecting?  Toys from a cereal box   p. 2
  2. What color did Perfect Peter and Horrid Henry both need to finish their collections?  Gold   p. 3
  3. Why did Peter get the gold toy?  Henry got the last one   p. 4
  4. Why did Henry have to eat Sweet Tweet’s cereal for every meal?  He’d opened a bunch of cereal boxes at the store trying to find a gold toy and spilled a bunch of boxes in the store   p. 19

Story 2

  1. What homework did Henry did to do?  Spelling   p. 22
  2. What was Miss Battle-Axe giving everyone who got 100% on their spelling test?  Bag of candy   p. 27
  3. What are some things that distracted Henry from doing his homework?  Played with his knights, read a comic, listened to music, watched tv    p. 28
  4. How did Henry do so well on his spelling test?  He copied off of Clare   p. 36
  5. What did Miss Battle-Axe give Henry as a consequence for doing well on his spelling test?  Gave him harder words to study   p. 38

Story 3

  1. Why does Henry not like Thursdays?  He has swimming lessons that day   p. 41
  2. Henry had some good excuses that might have kept him out of the pool if Soggy Sid didn’t know Henry better.  What was one of those excuses?  Wart, forgot swimsuit, tummy ache   p. 47
  3. How did Henry scare everyone when they were in the water?  Saying there were sharks   p. 52
  4. How did Henry pass his test and get his first badge?  He forgot there weren’t any sharks and swam like a shark was going to get him   p. 56

Story 4

  1. Where did Peter get his mummy kit from?  Museum   p. 60
  2. What’s the mummy’s curse?  When mummies take the shape or form of someone familiar   p. 64
  3. What convinced Peter that Henry was telling the truth about the mummy’s curse?  Their mom said, “of course I’m your mummy.”   P. 67
  4. Why did Henry wrap Fluffy the cat up like a mummy?  He was to be the messenger between their world and the next   p. 70