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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.
Read one section at a time, then discuss the questions to review understanding. These questions are a starting place for conversation, not a complete test of the chapter.
Story 1
Comprehension questions
What were Perfect Peter and Horrid Henry collecting?
Page 2 — Toys from a cereal box
2
What color did Perfect Peter and Horrid Henry both need to finish their collections?
Page 3 — Gold
3
Why did Peter get the gold toy?
Page 4 — Henry got the last one
4
Why did Henry have to eat Sweet Tweet’s cereal for every meal?
Page 19 — 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
19
Story 2
Comprehension questions
What homework did Henry did to do?
Page 22 — Spelling
22
What was Miss Battle-Axe giving everyone who got 100% on their spelling test?
Page 27 — Bag of candy
27
What are some things that distracted Henry from doing his homework?
Page 28 — Played with his knights, read a comic, listened to music, watched tv
28
How did Henry do so well on his spelling test?
Page 36 — He copied off of Clare
36
What did Miss Battle-Axe give Henry as a consequence for doing well on his spelling test?
Page 38 — Gave him harder words to study
38
Story 3
Comprehension questions
Why does Henry not like Thursdays?
Page 41 — He has swimming lessons that day
41
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?
Page 47 — Wart, forgot swimsuit, tummy ache
47
How did Henry scare everyone when they were in the water?
Page 52 — Saying there were sharks
52
How did Henry pass his test and get his first badge?
Page 56 — He forgot there weren’t any sharks and swam like a shark was going to get him
56
Story 4
Comprehension questions
Where did Peter get his mummy kit from?
Page 60 — Museum
60
What’s the mummy’s curse?
Page 64 — When mummies take the shape or form of someone familiar
64
What convinced Peter that Henry was telling the truth about the mummy’s curse?
Page 67 — Their mom said, “of course I’m your mummy.”
67
Why did Henry wrap Fluffy the cat up like a mummy?
Page 70 — He was to be the messenger between their world and the next
70
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