The White Snake — Questions and answers

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What special gift did Elara say Irmgard had?

Choices

  1. The ability to cook delicious food
  2. The ability to understand ✓
  3. The ability to speak to the King
  4. The ability to clean pots very fast

Answer: The ability to understand

From page 3

How did the King first react to Irmgard's dish?

Choices

  1. He loved it and praised her
  2. He thought it was bland and insipid ✓
  3. He asked for more immediately
  4. He didn't taste it at all

Answer: He thought it was bland and insipid

From page 4

Why did Irmgard decline the King's offer to be his personal cook?

Choices

  1. She didn't like the King's food
  2. She wanted more gold than he offered
  3. She believed gold couldn't buy understanding, as Elara had warned ✓
  4. She preferred scrubbing pots to cooking

Answer: She believed gold couldn't buy understanding, as Elara had warned

From page 5

What did the white snake promise Irmgard if she freed it?

Choices

  1. A magical cookbook
  2. A new apron
  3. True understanding and the King's secrets ✓
  4. Lots of gold and jewels

Answer: True understanding and the King's secrets

From page 6

According to the white snake, what was the reason for the King's sadness?

Choices

  1. He was sad because his feasts were bland
  2. He missed scrubbing pots
  3. He was lonely because his cook left
  4. His sadness came from a lost love, a queen who vanished in the forest ✓

Answer: His sadness came from a lost love, a queen who vanished in the forest

From page 7

How did the King first react when Irmgard confronted him about his buried grief?

Choices

  1. He thanked her immediately for the information
  2. He offered her more gold to keep quiet
  3. He raged and dismissed her words as nonsense ✓
  4. He started crying right away

Answer: He raged and dismissed her words as nonsense

From page 8

After remembering, what did the King ask Irmgard to do?

Choices

  1. Make him another special dish
  2. Find the white snake for him
  3. Take him to the forest where his queen vanished ✓
  4. Build him a new throne

Answer: Take him to the forest where his queen vanished

From page 9