Totoro Reading Quiz
Accelerated Reader Quiz
My Neighbor Totoro
Quiz #: 84210
Level: 3.8
Points: 1.0
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Directions: Read each question carefully. Completely fill in the circle corresponding to the best answer choice.
Part 1: Multiple Choice
1 Why do Satsuki, Mei, and their father move into the country house?
A. Their father took a teaching job at an agricultural college.
B. To be closer to the hospital where their mother is recovering.
C. They inherited an old family farm from Granny Ogaki.
D. Their home in Tokyo was damaged during a heavy summer flood.
2 What do Satsuki and Mei discover scurrying in the dark corners of the house?
A. Soot sprites (Susuwatari) that flee into dark crevices.
B. A family of river crabs crawling under the floorboards.
C. Field mice carrying grains of dried rice into the attic.
D. Enchanted fireflies that glow whenever someone laughs.
3 How does four-year-old Mei first encounter the sleeping giant Totoro?
A. She follows his loud sneezes into Granny's vegetable patch.
B. Kanta guides her to a secret cavern hidden behind the shrine.
C. She chases two small spirits and tumbles into a hollow camphor tree.
D. He wanders onto their front porch during an afternoon rain shower.
4 What object does Satsuki lend to Totoro while waiting at the dark, rainy bus stop?
A. Her father's black umbrella to shelter him from the rain.
B. A bright yellow raincoat she carried for Mei.
C. A woven straw hat borrowed from Granny Ogaki.
D. A brass lantern to illuminate the muddy roadside.
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5 What vehicle pulls up to the bus stop to transport Totoro into the night?
A. An enchanted wooden wagon pulled by six white deer.
B. A floating silver train that travels along telephone wires.
C. A twelve-legged feline Catbus with glowing eyes and mouse headlights.
D. A giant spinning top that flies silently above the treetops.
6 What happens when the girls and the Totoros perform their midnight ritual in the garden?
A. The buried acorn seeds sprout and rapidly grow into a massive tree.
B. Thousands of soot sprites gather to rebuild the collapsed shed.
C. A hidden spring opens, watering all the neighboring rice paddies.
D. The girls receive golden tickets allowing them to board the Catbus.
Directions: Read each statement about the story. Fill in T if the statement is true, or F if it is false.
Part 2: True or False
7 Satsuki receives a telegram announcing that her mother’s weekend visit home is postponed because she caught a cold.
T F
8 When a small pink sandal is found floating in the irrigation pond, Satsuki identifies it as Mei’s sandal.
T F
9 Mei gets lost after setting out on foot to carry a freshly picked ear of sweet corn to her mother at the hospital.
T F
10 At the hospital, Satsuki and Mei run into the room to wake their mother and father before heading back home.
T F
Reader Bonus Question (Optional)
What words are carved into the ear of sweet corn that Satsuki and Mei leave on the hospital windowsill?
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