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Robert C. O'Brien was the pen name used by Robert Leslie Carroll Conly for his novel writing. His first book was "the Silver Crown", followed by "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH", winner of the 1972 Newbery Medal.
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  Questions on Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH   great trivia quiz  
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This is a quiz on the book by Robert C. O'Brien, NOT the movie version. The book won the Newbery Award in 1972. I strongly recommend it!
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  Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH    
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My name is Mrs Frisby, and I am the heroine of a book by Robert C. O'Brien. This quiz is about me and is based on the book, which is quite different from the movie.
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  Test yourself! Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Quiz   great trivia quiz  
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This is a wonderful book for children by Robert C. O'Brien. It was published in 1971 and won the Newbery Medal for outstanding children's literature in 1972.
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Who wouldn't let the rats move my house?

From Quiz "Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH"





Robert C. O'Brien Trivia Questions
1. How did Mrs. Frisby meet Jeremy?

From Quiz Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: She rescued him from the Fitzgibbon's cat, Dragon.

Jeremy was a young crow who liked to collect shiny things for a friend. He had gotten his foot tangled in a piece of Christmas string which was caught on a fence wire. Mrs. Frisby risked her own life to chew through the string before Dragon pounced.

2. Mrs. Frisby, a mouse, has a problem and needs advice. What kind of animal takes Mrs. Frisby to see the wise old owl?

From Quiz Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: a crow

The crow's name is Jeremy, and he likes shiny things. In a scene reminiscent of the Aesop fable about the mouse and the lion, Mrs. Frisby rescues Jeremy after he has been tangled in a shiny string. He promises to do her a favor in return, and later she calls him on it. He can't help her, but he suggests going to see the wise owl.

3. What was my late Husband's name?

From Quiz Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: Jonathan

I did not find out until a year after his disappearance how Jonathan died. He had been on a mission to give the cat some sleeping powder.

4. Who was guarding the entrance inside the rosebush when Mrs. Frisby first arrived?

From Quiz Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: Brutus

Brutus was a bit gruff and unfriendly towards Mrs. Frisby, until he realized she was the late Jonathon Frisby's wife.

5. Mrs. Frisby lives in a cinderblock on a farm. The family that runs the farm own a large cat that loves to hunt. What is the name of the this cat that scares the mice so?

From Quiz Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: Dragon

Dragon 'was enormous, with a huge, broad head and a large mouth full of curving fangs, needle sharp.' But the rats of NIMH know how to deal with him...

6. What is the name of my youngest child?

From Quiz Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: Cynthia

Timothy is my second youngest child, and my youngest son, but he does seem a lot wiser than his brother and sisters. Timothy was very sick, which is how I came to meet the rats in the first place.

7. What was the diagnosis Mr. Ages gave Mrs. Frisby after she listed Timothy's symptoms?

From Quiz Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: Pneumonia

Timothy was Mrs. Frisby's youngest son. He had been bitten by a spider when he was a baby and was therefor weak and prone to illness. His symptoms included a high fever and difficulty breathing.

8. Mrs. Frisby is a widow. Her husband has been missing, presumed (and actually) dead since the summer before the events in the book. How did her husband die?

From Quiz Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: killed by the cat

'Brutus wrinkled his brow. "Mr. Jonathan? You mean the one Dragon..." "Yes," said Justin quickly. "And this is Mrs. Jonathan."' Her husband, a friend of the rats, was putting sleeping potion in Dragon's food as a favor to them when he moved a bit too slow and was caught.

9. What is the name of the crow I rescued?

From Quiz Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: Jeremy

Jeremy had caught his foot in some silver coloured string possibly left over from a Christmas parcel. I managed to free him and he became my friend for life.

10. What tasty surprise does Mrs. Frisby find in the abandoned tree stump?

From Quiz Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: corn

Mrs. Frisby remembered hearing the loud noise followed by a scream the previous fall. She assumed the animal which had stored this particular winter supply of food had been killed. In addition to the corn, she found peanuts and mushrooms.

11. Mrs. Frisby has a friend, a wise, white-grey mouse named Mr. Ages. What is Mr. Ages' profession?

From Quiz Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: doctor

Mr. Ages, who was also experimented on at NIMH, knows all sorts of powders, plants and potions to help the sick (and to sedate predators). When we first see him, he has collected a bag of pipsissewa, "a very useful spring tonic." He breaks his leg during the course of the book giving Dragon the sleeping powder.

12. Who suggested I go and visit the rats?

From Quiz Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: The owl

Jeremy suggested I visit the owl and once I mentioned my name was Mrs Frisby, the owl suggested I would be able to get some help from the rats.

13. What are the names of the two medical students assisting Dr. Schultz with the experiments on the rats and mice?

From Quiz Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: George and Julie

George and Julie were graduate students who helped with the daily care and feeding of the mice and rats. They also observed and recorded results of various types of intelligence tests on the animals.

14. What is the name of the one-eyed leader of the rats of NIMH?

From Quiz Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: Nicodemus

Nicodemus has a scar across his left eye, covered by a an eye-patch. He and Justin were the ringleaders who orchestrated the escape from NIMH, but the other rats naturally turn toward Nicodemus as the leader since he's older. Timothy is the name of Mrs. Frisby's son who falls sick at the beginning of the book. Jenner is the rat who forms a splinter group and wants to steal from the humans. Archimedes is the talking owl in T.H. White's "The Once And Future King".

15. Who was the first rat I met?

From Quiz Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: Brutus

I was supposed to meet Justin, but he along with all the other rats was at a meeting and Brutus had been left on Guard duty.

16. What advice does the owl give Mrs. Frisby after he finds out who her husband was?

From Quiz Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: Go to the rats for help.

Jeremy flew Mrs. Frisby to visit the owl who lived in the center of the forest. He lived in the oldest and tallest tree. The branch outside his hollow nesting spot was as wide as a sidewalk.

17. In the Thorn Mountains National Forest, the rats come upon a dead man who was a peddler. They acquire a lot of machinery and tools from his truck. According to the name on his truck, who was he?

From Quiz Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: The Toy Tinker

The Toy Tinker sold many kits, models and toys, and had tools to fix them. The rats are delighted to find actual electric tools small enough for them to use. The rats do bury the poor guy, though.

18. What advice did the owl give me to tell the rats?

From Quiz Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: Move the house into the lee of the stone

The owl thought if the house was on the lee side of the stone, it would be too difficult for the plough to get at. Therefore my family could stay in the house long enough for Timothy to get better.

19. What happened to Mr. Frisby?

From Quiz Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: He was killed by Dragon.

Mr. Frisby was one of the mice who escaped with the rats from NIMH. He was placing a sleeping powder in Dragon's dish when he was killed.

20. At NIMH, the rats use their new intelligence to figure out how to open their cages. But how do the rats get out of the building?

From Quiz Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: through the air vents

The rats (and the mice) crawl through the air vent, using a stolen screwdriver to move the wire mesh over the ducts. Six of the poor mice are blown away by the fan during the escape, and the rats never see them again. They may have escaped, or they may have died down there. Just another one of the book's many ambiguities.

21. What does Isabella's brother call her?

From Quiz Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: Izzy

She doesn't like being called Izzy, but I noticed she didn't mind when Justin called her that.

22. Where did the rats and mice spend their first winter after escaping from NIMH?

From Quiz Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: In the Boniface Estate mansion.

The Boniface Estate was the perfect place to hide, that first winter. The family was away for the winter and only one caretaker came by periodically to check on the house. The rats and mice especially enjoyed the library. They also discovered how to use an electric can opener!

23. Where did the rats live before being captured by NIMH?

From Quiz Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: a farmer's market

The rats lived a very contented life at the farmer's market, because there was always enough food. But it is this very abundance and waste that makes Nicodemus later realize there must be more to life than living off the scraps of others.

24. What is the name of the place where my home is located?

From Quiz Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: Fitzgibbon's Farm

The farm is a good place to live with only the Cat, Dragon to cause us problems.

25. What does the letter "M" stand for in the acronym NIMH?

From Quiz Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: Mental

The rats soon learned that NIMH stood for the National Institute of Mental Health. They were prisoners there for three years until their escape, which wouldn't have been possible without the help of the mice.

26. Mrs. Frisby gets captured by the farmer's son while in the house, and is put in an old bird cage. Who comes to rescue her?

From Quiz Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: Justin

All of the answers are names of the rats of NIMH, but it is the large, young and muscular guard Justin who climbs up to rescue her. He bends the door instead of opening it, so the humans won't be suspicious about the rats' intelligence. Later, the mice speculate that it's Justin who dies in the final flight from the farm, but we're never told for sure.

27. What did Billy Fitzgibbon use to catch me?

From Quiz Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: A colander

Luckily he did catch me and put me in the canary cage, as I was able to hear about the rats that had electrocuted themselves. Justin later helped me to escape, and I could tell the rats what I had overheard.

28. What was Dr. Schultz hoping for in his experiments on the rats and mice?

From Quiz Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: Increased Intelligence

The rats and mice in the A groups were receiving the same type of injections as often as three times a week for three years. Dr. Schultz did not realize until it was too late just how intelligent they had become.

29. Who wouldn't let the rats move my house?

From Quiz Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Answer: The shrew

The characters of this book live on in a couple of books by Robert C. O'Brien's Daughter - Jane Conly: "Rasco and the Rats of NIMH" and "RT, Margaret and the Rats of NIMH."

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