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Harry Potter and the Socerer's Stone

Chapter One Vocabulary and Memory Questions:


1.What does Professor McGonogal turn into in Chapter one?

2. Which character flys on a motorcycle?

3. What is the name of the Dursley's son?

4. What street do the Dursley's live on?

5. What happened to the Potters?

6.Define tawny.

7. What is a muggle?

8. Define hoodlum.

9. Define contrary.

10. Define pierce.

11. Define shrill.

12.Definne chortle.

13.Define astride.

14.Define scrawny.

15.Define grudging.

Chapter 2 comprehension questions And vocabularyter 2 Memory Questions and


Vocabulary
1. What animal does Harry talk to in this chapter?

2. Name one thing that has happened in Harry's life thus far that makes him seem unusual.

3. Dudley was a _______ child.

4.Aunt Petunia told Harry that his parents died _______________.

5. Who is described as "a pig in a wig"?

6. Why was Harry allowed to go with the Dursleys on Dudley's birthday trip?

7.What was Harry sentenced to a week in the cupboard for?


8.What does Harry experience when he trys to remember his parents?

9. Why didn't Harry have friends at school?

10. Define parcel.

11. Define maniac.

12.Define snarled.

13. Define snickered.

14 Define frantic.

Chapter 3 Memory Questions and


Vocabulary
1. At the beginning of chapter three, where is Harry?

2.Why didn't Harry wait around for Dudley to figure out what he had said about the toilet?

3.The Smeltings Boys all have knobly sticks, what are they to be used for?

4.What was Aunt Petunia doing with some of Dudley's old clothes?

5. Why had Harry NEVER gotten rude letters from the Library asking him to return books?

6.After confiscating Harry's first letter, what is Uncle Vernon's declared strategy,

7.What amazing thing does Uncle Vernon announce to Harry while inside the cupboard?

8.Please describe Dudley's toys.

9.What did Harry step on early one morning?

10.Uncle Vernon tried to pound in a nail with what surprising item?

11. Sunday morning Uncle Vernon is very happy, why?

12. Where are Harry and the Dursley Family on the eve of Harry's birthday?

13. If these questions seem to have a theme what do you think it is? In other words do you think
these questions seem to illustrate something?
14. Define trodden.

15. Define paraded.

16. Define bawling.

17. Define fond.

18.Define sneer.

19. Define pelted.

Chapter 4:
Comprehension Questions

1. What did Hagrid do to Uncle Vernon's gun?


2. Hagrid brought Harry ----.
3. Hagrid gave Harry an invitation to -----.
4. Hagrid sent Professor Dumbledore a letter by ----.
5. A muggle is ---.
6. The surprising thing about Voldermort was ----.
7. What did Hagrid do when he became angry with Uncle Vernon?
8. During Hagrid's third year ----.
9. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is written in -------------- point of
view.
10. How does Harry most likely feel as Hagrid begins to tell the story of his
family?
11. Arrange the events below in the sequence they occur in Chapter 4?

A. Hagrid tells Harry about his past, his parents and about the dark wizard
Voldemort who killed them.
B. Hagrid gives Harry his invitation to enter Hogwarts, a school of witchcraft
and wizardry and his booklist.
C. Hagrid, a giant man arrives. He introduces himself as the Keeper of Keys
and Grounds at Hogwarts.
D. Hagrid finds out Harry knows nothing at all about his past and his parents'
world, nor that his parents and he are magical and he is famous.
Chapter Four Vocabulary
1.
glinting
2.
sank
3.
abnormal
4.
fierce
5.
scribbled
6.
bewildered
7.
anxious
8.
ruffled
9.
flickering
10.
outrage
11.
frog spawn
12.
umbrella
13.
expelled
14.
giant
15.
tosh
16.
trodden on
17.
ruefully
18.
cowering
19.
dreading
20.
prune
Chapter 6: Memory Questions
1. What is the platform number Harry has to go to for his trip to Hogwarts?
2. Harry's owl's name is what?
3. How does Harry find the correct platform?
4. Who lost their toad?
5. What does Harry's scar on his forehead look like?
6. Why does Percy have a silver badge with a “P” on it?
7. Who sits next to Harry on the train?
8. Which candy has collector cards in them?
9. What are the four houses at Hogwarts?
10. Who were Percy, Fred, George, and Ron ?

Chapter 7 Memory Questions

1. During the year at Hogwarts students' triumphs and rule-breaking -----.

2. While the nervous first years waited to be sorted into houses what made many students scream?

3. The ceiling of the Great Hall is-----.

4. ----- made the decision as to which house each student would live.

5. Hermione, Ron, Neville, and Harry were to live in ----.

6. After Dumbledore's speech ----.

7. Neville learned he had magic when ----.

8. When Professor Snape looked at Harry during the meal -----.

9. First years were not allowed to go ---.

10. What was different about the school song?

11. Harry did not want the sorting hat to choose Slytherin because ---.

Chapter 7 Vocabulary
Define the words below:

1. apothecary
2. laden
3. spindly
4. transparent
5. minuscule
6. drawling
7. gawking
8. burnished
9. thronging
10. transfiguration

Chapter 8 Memory Questions


1. Why was finding classrooms difficult at Hogwarts?
2. Filch owned a ---- named Mrs. Norris.

3. The most boring class was ---- taught by Professor

Binns.
4. The first object the students tried to transfigure was

----.
5. Harry received a note delivered by Hegwig from -----.

6. How did Snape feel about Harry?

7. Which student seemed to know all the answers in

class?
8. Which writing tool did the students use at Hogwarts?

9. Neville mixed his potion incorrectly causing -----.

10. At Hagrid's cottage Harry read about ----.

11. At the end of Chapter 8 Harry wondered about ----.

Chapter 8 Vocabulary
1. rummage
2. wheedle
3. luminous
4. offhand
5. trudge
6. burly

7. lurk

8. jostle

9. mangled

10. whittle

11. wrench

12. topple

13. smarmy

14. askew

15. infusion

16. tureen

17. ember

18. snout

19. prod

20. league

Chapter Nine Memory Questions

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Chapter 9 "The Midnight Duel"

1. What spoiled the thought of Harry getting his first flying lesson?
a) knowing that Madame Hooch was teaching the class
b) knowing that his friends already knew how to fly
c) knowing that the members of the Slytherin House were going to be there

2. Neville received a small package from his grandmother with a ---- in it.
a) marble
b) Remembrall
c) cake
d) heart

3. When Neville tried to fly he -----.


a) was the best flier there
b) fell off his broom
c) went too fast
d) had no trouble
4. Harry had to jump on his broom ----.
a) to get Neville's Remembrall back
b) to keep Hermione from falling
c) so Ron wouldn't go after Malfoy

5. ----- caught Harry flying when he shouldn't have been.


a) Albus Dumbledore
b) Professor McGonagall
c) Madame Hooch
d) Hagrid

6. Where did Professor McGonagall take Harry?


a) to give him a spanking with a cane
b) to Hagrid to show him his new helper
c) to Dumbledore for punishment
d) to show Wood that she had found the Quidditch team a new seeker

7. Malfoy was so angry at Harry that he ------.


a) had Crabbe and Goyle beat him up
b) arranged a duel
c) called his dad to complain
d) locked him out of Hogwarts

8. ---- followed Ron and Harry to duel Malfoy.


a) Hermione
b) Seamus
c) Dean
d) George

9. The duel was ---.


a) in the Charms classroom, not the trophy room
b) rescheduled
c) lost by Malfoy
d) really a plan to get Harry and Ron in trouble with Filch

10. Behind the locked door was -----.


a) Peeves
b) a three-headed dog
c) Albus Dumbledore
d) Malfoy

11. The three-headed dog was used ----.


a) as a guard dog
b) as an attack dog
c) as a pet

12. Harry connected -----.


a) Malfoy's trickery with a story he had heard Ron tell him
b) the spell he heard in charms class with the password to get into the third floor corridor
c) the package Hagrid took with its hiding place
13. Read this passage from Chapter 9.

Ron couldn't see what was exciting about a game with only one ball where no one was allowed to fly.
Harry had caught Ron prodding Dean's poster of West Ham soccer team, trying to make the players
move.

If Ron wanted to learn more about the game of soccer where should he look?
a) an atlas
b) a textbook
c) the Internet
d) the dictionary

Chapter 10 Vocabulary

1. envious -jealous
2. flashy -showy; gaudy; giving a momentary brilliance
3. troll -(n) an imaginary, either very large or very small creature in traditional Scandinavian stories,
that has magical powers and lives in mountains or caves
4. zigzagging -moving in the shape of Z
5. disapprovingly-adv.; with negative judgment based upon personal standards
6. strapping-(adj.) tall, strong, and healthy
7. seekers-ones who are looking for something
8. crate-box that is made of wood
9. trudge-to walk in a heavy-footed way
10. flailed-wave or swing or cause to wave or swing wildly.

Chapter 10 Memory Questions

1. How did Harry and Ron feel about Hermione at the beginning of Chapter 10?
2. Harry received a ---- in the mail.
3. How many players were on each Quidditch team?
4. How many balls were used to play Quidditch?
5. Professor Flitwick had the students ----.
6. During the Halloween feast ---- broke into the dungeons at Hogwarts.
7. Ron and Harry went to the bathroom to ----.
8. How did Ron and Harry know the troll was near?
9. Ron used a spell to -----.
10. Harry's wand ended up ----.
11. Ron and Harry's feelings towards Hermione changed when she ----.

Chapter 11 Vocabulary

Commentary-a spoken description of an event on the radio or television that is broadcast as the event
happens:
Murmur-a soft continuous sound:
Lurch-a sudden movement or change that is not smooth or normal:
Staffroom-a room in a school that is for the use of the teachers when they are not teaching
Moleskin-a thick, strong cotton fabric with a shaved pile surface
conjure-call upon (a spirit or ghost) to appear, by means of a magic ritual.
diversion-the act of causing something or someone to turn in a different direction, or to be used for a
different purpose

Chapter 11 Memory Questions

What did Hagrid think of their accusations against Snape?


Who is the only female on Gryffindor's quidditch team?
What did Harry observe in the staffroom?
Why did Snape deduct five points from Gryffindor?
Why wouldn't Hermione allow Ron and Harry to copy her homework?
What book did Hermione lend Harry?
What happened to Harry and his broom during the match?
What did Hermione do to help Harry during the match?
How did Harry catch the snitch?

Chapter 12 Memory Questions

1. What is the name of the mirror that Harry finds?


2. What does Harry see in the mirror?
3. What does Ron see in the mirrow?
4. Who does Harry encounter on the third night that he goes to visit the mirror?
5. Who says, "It shows us nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our
hearts. You, who have never known your family, see them standing around you. Ronald
Weasley, who has always been overshadowed by his brothers, sees himself standing alone, the
best of all of them"?
6.During which holiday does this chapter take place?
7. What does Draco tease Harry about in this chapter?
8. Who said, "…this mirror will give us neither knowledge or truth. Men have wasted away
before it, entranced by what they have seen, or been driven mad, not knowing if what it shows is
real or even possible. …It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that."?
9.Why did Harry enjoy Christmas so much?

Chapters 12-14 Vocabulary

1. luminous
2. petrified
3. bated
4. usher
5. immortal
6. halfheartedly
7. spectacles
8. eerie
9. fanatic
10. taunting
11. shrill
12. invisible

Chapter 13 Memory Questions

1. Where did Harry store his cloak during the remainder of the Christmas hoilday?
2. What complaint did the Weasleys make about Oliver Wood?
3. What bothered Harry about his next Quidditch match?
4. What curse did Malfoy do on Neville?
5. Who is Nicholas Flamel?
6. What are two properties of the socerer's stone?
7. What did both Ron and Hermione bring to the Quidditch match?
8. Why did Ron attack Malfoy?
9. Who did Harry catch meeting in the dark forest?

Chapter 14 Memory Questions

What is the name of Hagrid's dragon?


How did Ron stand up for Quirrell?
About how old is Nicolas Flamel?
What was Hagrid researching at the library and what was the name of the book he checked out?
When was dragon breeding outlawed?
Which teachers did enchantments to help protect socerer's stone? Name ALL of them.
What did Hagrid's second note to Harry say?
Who spied on Hagrid and the others while the dragon was hatching?
Which one of Ron's brothers works with dragons?
When and where is the dragon exchange supposed to take place?
Name two things Hagrid put in the crate for the dragon.
Where did they leave the invisibility cloak?
How many people came to pick up the dragon?
Who caught Harry and the others sneaking back to their dorm?

Chapter 15 Memory Question Assignment

Read through chapter 15 and create 5 memory questions of your own. Answer your questions, and turn
them in to me at the end of class today (April 30th, 2018).
Chapter 16 Memory Questions

1. What did Professor McGonagall have the students transform a mouse into?
2. What did Professor Flitwick ask them to enchant?
3.Who gave the exam on The History of Magic?
4.What did Harry think was a bit odd about Hagrid?
5. What did Hagrid tell the stranger?
6. What did Professor McGonagall do when Harry mention the Sorcerer's Stone?
7. Who was Hermione supposed to pretend to be waiting on?
8. What item did Harry take along to use on Fluffy?
9. What spell did they use on Neville?
10. Who is Peaves scared of?
11.What did they find at Fluffy's feet?
12.What was under Fluffy?
13.What was the name of the plant they encountered?
14. What did the passageway remind Harry of?
15. What did Herimone mistake for birds?
16. What did the right key look like?
17. Who figured out wizard's chess?
18. What was Snape's trap?

Chapter 17 Memory Questions

1. Who was trying to steal the stone?


2. Who was always at Quirrell's side?
3. Where was the stone hidden?
4. What did Harry see in the mirror?
5. Why was Quirrell drinking unicorn blood?
6. Which of Harry's parents did Voldemort kill first?
7. Why wasn't Quirrell able to choke Harry?
8. What was the gold thing Harry saw when he woke?
9. How long had Harry been in the hospital wing?
10. What happened to the stone?
11. Is Dumbledore always honest?
12. Who gave Harry his cloak?
13. Why was Harry able to get the stone from its hiding place?
14. Who won the last Quidditch match?
15. What did Hagrid give Harry?
16. How many points was Ron awarded, and why was he awarded those points?
17. Which House won the House Cup?
18. Which exam did Neville do poorly on?
19. What did Mrs. Weasley give Harry?
20. Why does Harry think he will have a fun summer with the Dursleys?

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