Name
The Sword in the Stone
Date
Chapters 1-15
Matching: Match each item to the correct description.
____1. Tutors Wart and Kay
A. Sir Ector
____2. Raises Arthur as his foster son
B. Kay
____3. Merlyn’s wise, talking owl
C. Arthur
____4. Wants to be turned into an animal like Wart
D. Merlyn
____5. A squire, destined to be king
E. Archimedes
True or False: Identify each statement by writing out the word True or False.
________6. Merlyn believes that an educated man is also one who possesses
outstanding tilting and horsemanship skills.
________7. Kay thinks that it is unfair that Merlyn always turns Wart into things and
does not include him.
________8. Sir Ector provides Arthur’s academic training but not chivalric training
because Arthur is not his proper son.
________9. Mogan le Fay is Queen of the Fairies.
________10. According to Merlyn, the best way to learn is by doing rather than
listening.
Multiple Choice:
____11. Sir Ector’s home is called
A. Camelot.
B. Castle of the Forest Sauvage.
C. Castle Chariot.
D. Graymarye.
____12. While he is transformed into a perch, Wart learns from the King of the Moat
that
A. Love conquers all.
B. Liars always lose.
C. Education is experience.
D. Might is right.
____13. Robin Wood needs Kay and the Wart to rescue Tuck, Wat, Dog Boy, and Cavall
from Morgan because only
A. small people can get past Morgan’s griffin.
B. educated people will be able to reason with Morgan.
C. innocent people can enter Morgan’s castle.
D. quiet people can sneak across the bridge into her castle.
____14. Kay, compared to Arthur, is
A. moodier.
B. brighter.
C. a true leader.
D. stronger.
____15. The ants begin to prepare for battle because
A. the fairies have taken Cavall prisoner.
B. they believe Might is Right.
C. an ant has crossed an imaginary boundary.
D. they have no words for freedom.
____16. Who says the following: “But I unfortunately was born at the wrong end of
time, and I have to live backwards to front, while surrounded by a lot of people living
forwards from behind.”
A. King Pellinore
B. Merlyn
C. Sir Ector
D. Arthur
Short Constructed Response: Answer each of the following questions.
A. What lesson might Merlyn want Arthur to learn from his experience with the ants
and how might this experience be helpful for a future king?
B. In Chapter Three, Wart meets Merlyn and Wart determines that he must have just
been on a quest, as Merlyn announces that he will be the tutor. If a quest is a journey
or effort to find or do something, what is Merlyn’s quest and how does he go about
accomplishing it in chapters 4-15? (Hint: How does Merlyn “educate” the future king?)
Short Constructed Response:
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