Answer: Harald
Harald was Roald's father and Oscar was Harald's brother (Roald's uncle).
From Quiz: Roald Dahl: "Boy: Tales of Childhood"
Answer: Thwaites
Thwaites is a funny and smart bloke who enjoys getting others in trouble!
From Quiz: Boy, Tales of a Childhood
Answer: Sunday morning
On Sunday mornings Dahl and his classmates would be paraded into a hall to write a letter to their parents. However, the masters censored what was written in the letters so that the boys did not speak ill of the school or say that they were being mistreated. Dahl thoroughly enjoyed this practice and continued to write weekly to his mother up until her death (Dahl was in his 20s). His mother filed these letters and when Dahl returned home he was able to see everything he wrote over a period of more than 10 years.
From Quiz: "Boy" - Part 2
Answer: Harald
Harald Dahl was the father of Roald Dahl and only had one arm for a part of his life. After falling from a rooftop, a tipsy doctor attempted to help but worsened the problem (bone was sticking out). This was before Roald was born but he was able to witness the repercussions as Harold tied his shoes with one hand and was in the possession of an ingenious tool which could be used as a knife and a fork. He became very successful with his business partner and became a collector of fine furniture. However, when his favourite daughter fell ill at the age of seven and eventually died he lost the will to live. He himself fell ill soon after and when he had to fight to stay alive gave up in the hope of rejoining his daughter.
From Quiz: "Boy" - Part 1
Answer: curled most splendidly upwards
Dahl also said that "Captain Hardcastle was never still. His orange head twitched and jerked perpetually from side to side in the most alarming fashion, and each twitch was accompanied by a little grunt that came out of the nostrils."
From Quiz: "Boy" by Roald Dahl
Answer: Tales of Childhood
That is exactly what the book is.
From Quiz: Roald Dahl's book 'Boy'
Answer: Gobstoppers
Gobstoppers are candy made of sour fruit flavours; they have a really sour taste!
From Quiz: Boy, Tales of a Childhood
Answer: Victor Corrado
Dahl struggled with Latin and it is therefore rarely mentioned in the book. However, we do see that he received some unsatisfactory comments about his standard of work.
From Quiz: "Boy" - Part 2
Answer: 1922
Roald Dahl says that he has barely any memory of kindergarten and that is why this information box is depressingly short. He cannot even visualise his carers at kindergarten.
From Quiz: "Boy" - Part 1
Answer: goat's droppings
After noticing something other than tobacco was in his pipe the "male lover" thought he had been poisoned. Dahl called the man who loved his "ancient half-sister" (as Dahl calls her) "the male lover". He never told what his name was.
From Quiz: "Boy" by Roald Dahl
Answer: Norway
Dahl lived in England for most of his life, but his parents were both Norwegian.
From Quiz: Roald Dahl's book 'Boy'
Answer: Llandaff Cathedral School
Aged 7 years old Roald went off to Llandaff Cathedral School till 9 years old. Then at 9 years he went to St. Peters School until he was 13 then finally went to Repton school from 13-18 years old.
From Quiz: Roald Dahl: "Boy: Tales of Childhood"
Answer: Africa
He has been sent there by his boss.
From Quiz: Boy, Tales of a Childhood
Answer: Appendicitis
During his first term at boarding school Dahl had bad homesickness because he had never spent the night away from his mother before. Before he left he had witnessed his sister with appendicitis and was able to fool the school matron with his re-enactment of her pain. Unfortunately for Dahl, his family doctor soon realised that there was nothing wrong with him and sent him back to school.
From Quiz: "Boy" - Part 2
Answer: 12
When Dahl was riding to school on his tricycle (3 wheels, more stable) he witnessed a senior boy whizzing down the hill at high speeds. Dahl vividly remembers this because he formed an aspiration to one day be like this boy. He was astonished at the way the boy could ride with no hands on the handlebars (behind his head) and also the way that he pedalled backwards to create a "most fantastic whirring sound".
From Quiz: "Boy" - Part 1
Answer: Cadbury
Dahl had wanted to work at Cadbury's for some time. He wanted to invent the best chocolate in the world. That's how he thought of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", another of his great books.
From Quiz: "Boy" by Roald Dahl
Answer: Sofie
Her full name was Sofie Magdalene Heselborg.
From Quiz: Roald Dahl's book 'Boy'
Answer: A dead mouse
After doing this, Mrs Pratchett reported it to Roald's headmaster and he and his friends got caned for it (on their bottom)!
From Quiz: Roald Dahl: "Boy: Tales of Childhood"
Answer: leather and tobacco
It smelled like that because he was smoking and the seats were made of leather.
From Quiz: Boy, Tales of a Childhood
Answer: 35 mph
Dahl's ancient half-sister had recently acquired a motor car. In those days there weren't any requirement for training and tests to get your license and she was therefore quite inexperienced. The children had watched excitedly as the speed dial crept over 30mph and continued rising. However the ancient half-sister panicked as they reached a tight bend and lost control of the car. Most of the family escaped unscathed but Roald went through the windscreen and almost cut off his nose.
From Quiz: "Boy" - Part 2
Answer: Mouse
The Great Plot or "Great Mouse Plot" was a plan envisaged by Dahl and carried out by his friends. Whenever they had some money, Dahl, Thwaites and three others would always go to the sweet shop. The owner was Mrs. Pratchett who was a gruesome woman who never washed her hands before touching the sweets. The band of friends had always wanted to get back at her for these vile acts and the perfect opportunity came when Dahl found a dead mouse under a floorboard in his classroom. The plot was to plant the dead mouse in the jar of gobstoppers so that Mrs. Paratchett would get a huge fright when she picked it out. The plan succeeded but Dahl was soon shot with guilt as the shop remained closed for several days. Thwaites, the son of a doctor, convinced Dahl that he had killed her but he later discovered he hadn't when she gave him the cane.
From Quiz: "Boy" - Part 1
Answer: Tweedie
After that experience, Tweedie learned not to sleep on his back--or else!
From Quiz: "Boy" by Roald Dahl
Answer: Llandaff
I don't remember the name of his kindergarten, but his first prep school was named Llandaff Cathedral School.
From Quiz: Roald Dahl's book 'Boy'
Answer: Norway
Roald's family was from Norway and every summer went to Norway and went to the same places and did the same things. I'm surprised he didn't get bored of it!
From Quiz: Roald Dahl: "Boy: Tales of Childhood"
Answer: Like a ripe orange
Captain Harcastle had been in the army during the war and he kept his title of Captain. He had bright orange hair which was a great source of amusement for Dahl and his peers. "Like a ripe orange" is a detailed and amusing simile to describe this feature.
From Quiz: "Boy" - Part 2
Answer: Policemen
Dahl finds headmasters frightening because they are so imposing and have the power to beat you with the cane. Also, he finds policemen frightening because of their dominance and commanding position in society.
From Quiz: "Boy" - Part 1
Answer: Corkers
Corkers would often do the crossword puzzle or other distracting things to keep from having to teach math.
From Quiz: "Boy" by Roald Dahl
Answer: Mrs. Pratchett
Mr. Coombes was the headmaster at Llandaff school, Corkers was a mathematics master from Repton (which was later in the book) and Mrs. O'Connor was a babysitter and English literature teacher mentioned in the short story Lucky Break. (You'll know what I mean by that if you read the book.)
From Quiz: Roald Dahl's book 'Boy'
Answer: Sugar
Salt was put on the floorboards by a daring young boy in Roald's room. The Matron then got angry and the principal confiscated the boys' tuck box keys.
From Quiz: Boy, Tales of a Childhood
Answer: plum
When Dahl visited the matron complaining of his appendicitis there was another boy in the room called Ellis. Ellis was younger than Dahl and he had a huge boil on his bottom. The matron had called the doctor and without warning Ellis, he ruptured the boil with a scalpel and Ellis was left in immense pain. Dahl comments on Ellis' bravery for such a little boy.
From Quiz: "Boy" - Part 2
Answer: 4
After Thwaites and the other three boys have received their strokes, Dahl steps up. He goes on to describe how Mr. Coombes had perfect timing and accuracy when it came to caning. Dahl tells of how he would let the first stroke sink in before delivering another in exactly the same spot. All the while Mrs Pratchett, the sweet shop owner would cackle in the corner saying things like "'arder 'eadmaster" and "much obliged".
From Quiz: "Boy" - Part 1
Answer: Licorice bootlaces
Sherbert suckers and licorice bootlaces were Dahl's favorite candies.
From Quiz: "Boy" by Roald Dahl
Answer: Arkle
He fed it with slugs.
From Quiz: Roald Dahl's book 'Boy'
Answer: Tuck Box
Virtually every boarding school in the early 1900s asked their parents to give a tuck box to their child.
From Quiz: Roald Dahl: "Boy: Tales of Childhood"
Answer: Oxford and Cambridge by his mother
Roald had the chance of a lifetime, to go to college at Oxford or Cambridge. But he decided to pursue his dream and go to Africa instead.
From Quiz: Boy, Tales of a Childhood
Answer: Doctor
The Norwegian holiday was usually a time for family but one year the ancient half-sister brought along her manly lover, a doctor. The rest of the family disapproved of the way they spent so much time alone and not swimming with the rest of the family. One time when they (half-sister and manly lover) went off for a swim Dahl had an ingenious plan. He concealed some shaved goat's droppings amongst the manly lover's tobacco. When the manly lover returned for a smoke of his pipe, he was left choking on the fumes of goat's tobacco.
From Quiz: "Boy" - Part 2
Answer: Carleton
After cleaning for a few hours, Carleton would take out a white glove and run it all around the study, checking for dust.
From Quiz: "Boy" by Roald Dahl
Answer: Appendicitis
Dahl did have adenoids at another point in the book.
From Quiz: Roald Dahl's book 'Boy'
Answer: Easier to say
When Dahl's mother asked him which public school he would like to go to out of Repton and Marlborough he chose Repton because it was easier to say. He recognised that they were both very good schools but for readers it would have been interesting to see life at Marlborough in comparison to the evil Boazers at Repton.
From Quiz: "Boy" - Part 2
Answer: Idyllic
Dahl felt that there was no better way to spend his summer holidays that drifting around the islands of Norway. There are so many and he enjoyed it because each one was different and unexpected.
From Quiz: "Boy" - Part 1