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The Birds – Daphne du Maurier
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1.What month is it during the beginning of the story?
2.Who is Nat Hocken?
3.What is a “pasty”?
4.What does the word “placid” mean?
5.What is Nat sure of?
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6.Why does the farmer say the birds are restless?
7.What does the bird do to Nat?
8.How many birds attack Nat’s face?
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9.What does Nat try to use as a weapon against the birds when he is in the children’s room?
10.How many dead birds are lying on the floor?
11.What are the only two sounds that Nat hears?
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12.What does “garish” mean?
13.What does Nat say seized the birds?
14.What does Nat blame for the birds acting so crazy?
15.What is a scullery?
16.What does Jill say the birds went for?
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17.What does Nat say he will walk with his daughter to?
18.Why was Nat said to be “superior” around the farm?
19.What is a “wireless”?
20.Why would men see “funny shaped” birds after closing hours on Saturday night?
21.Where does Mrs. Trigg think that the birds were from?
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22.What does Nat think the birds were like? What war do you think he is referring to?
23.What is Nat’s wife scared to do?
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24.Where does Nat decide to bury the birds?
25.What is a “shingle”?
26.What happens to the birds when he opens the sack?
27.What kind of birds does Nat see coming towards the shore?
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28.What is causing birds to migrate south in large numbers?
29.What is causing them to attack humans?
30.Who is Nat thinking of when he seals off the windows?
31.How would you describe Nat’s feelings about work or working on projects?
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32.What does the word “recounted” mean?
33.What does Nat’s wife think that they should do?
34.What does Nat say the population o f London is?
35.What is a “larder”?
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36.What are “pilchards”?
37.What is Nat’s family low on?
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38.What are “council houses”?
39.What kind of birds are showing up?
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40.What does the farmer offer Nat?
41.What has Nat heard that black – billed gulls have attacked?
42.Who does the farmer think has poisoned the birds? Why would he think this at the time this was written?
43.What kind of breakfast does the farmer say he will give Nat?
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44.Who lets Nat in right before he is about to be killed?
45.From what you have read, what do you think a “gannet”?
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46.What does “furtively” mean?
47.Where are the boards that Nat thinks might give way?
48.Where does Nat decide they should sleep?
49.What does Nat think will happen if the birds are stuck in the bedroom?
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50.What does Nat make the children help him do?
51.What is the BBC?
52.What are the “pips”?
53.What does “imperative” mean?
54.What does the radio ask the population to do?
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55.What is a ”gramophone”?
56.What kind of powers does Nat think the birds have?
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57.What does the government send after the birds?
58.What does “reconnaissance” mean?
59.What can Nat hear crashing?
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60.What does Nat think the law that birds obey has to do with?
61.What does Nat’s wife tell him?
62.When Nat goes outside, what does he see?
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63.What does Nat use the dead bodies of birds to do?
64.What do the birds come down?
65.What is “paraffin”?
66.What does Nat tell the children?
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67.What is the “Primus”?
68.What is “Bovril”?
69.What does Nat think will get rid of the smell of scorched feathers?
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70.What type of birds had Nat forgotten about?
71.What does Nat suggest at five-thirty in the morning?
72.What does “fretful” mean?
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73.What words would you use to describe the picture of the bird on this page?
74.Does the radio program come on at seven o clock?
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75.What are the three things that Nat needs?
76.What does Nat’s wife tell him?
77.What is a “pram”?
78.What are there many of lying in the yard?
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79.What is Nat thankful for?
80.How does Nat realize that the birds are so still in the morning?
81.What does Nat what the air force to gas the birds with?
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82.What does Nat test in the cottage?
83.What rises up from the sea?
84.Who is it that the farmer’s wife wonders will do something?
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85.What do you think ends up happening to the family in the story? Why do you think this?
Critical Thinking
86.How do the successive announcements on the BBC help create a sense of suspense?
87.At a certain point, the BBC is no longer broadcasting, what does this tell you about the conditions in the cities of
England?
88.Do you think that an animal population could suddenly turn against people? Why?
89.Do you think the inconclusive ending of the story is effective? Why or why not?
90.Daphne Du Maurier uses foreshadowing-hinting at events to come-to build suspense and create a sense of impending doom. How is Nat’s sighting of masses of gulls riding the sea a foreshadowing of possible disaster?
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