The Princess and the Goblin

Chapters 1-7

Reading Check

1. In a farmhouse-castle on the mountainside (Chapter 1)

2. She goes through a secret passageway and along many halls and passages. (Chapter 3)

3. In the mines (Chapter 6)

4. A kiss (Chapter 6)

Short Answer

1. Lootie does not believe Irene and becomes angry with her because Irene disappeared and now is supposedly telling lies. (Chapter 4)

2. Curdie knows that the goblins hate singing and that they stay away from people who do not fear them. He helps Irene by singing when she and Lootie are attacked by a goblin on the mountainside after nightfall. (Chapter 6)

3. Grandmother shows Irene her pigeons and the thread she is spinning, both of which indicate that she is mysterious and otherworldly. (Chapter 3)

Chapters 8-16

Reading Check

1. Glump (Chapter 9)

2. She allowed Irene to stay out past nightfall. (Chapter 10)

3. Cobs/Goblin Creatures (Chapter 13)

4. Next Friday night (Chapter 11)

Short Answer

1. Grandmother tells Irene that Lootie would not believe in her even if she were to see her because she would reason that she was either dreaming or ill. This is why there is no point in Irene continuing to tell Lootie about Grandmother. (Chapter 11)

2. Irene lives apart from her father because her mother is dead and he does not have time to take care of her; he does not even visit often because he is always away travelling the kingdom and performing his duties as a king. (Chapter 10)

3. Grandmother gifts Irene a magical thread made of rare spiderwebs. She puts it inside a fire-opal ring and leaves the ball of thread in her drawer. The thread connects Grandmother and Irene together, and Irene can use it to lead her to safety whenever she is in trouble. (Chapter 15)

Chapters 17-24

Reading Check

1. Prince Harelip (Chapter 18)

2. A hole in the caves (Chapter 18)

3. She uses Grandmother’s thread. (Chapter 20)

4. Capture and marry her (Chapter 18)

Short Answer

1. Curdie does not believe Irene’s claims about Grandmother and becomes angry with her. (Chapters 21-22)

2. Grandmother only reveals herself when she wants to, and she does not believe Curdie is ready to see her yet. (Chapter 22)

3. Curdie’s mother tells him that she was once saved by the moon-lamp that belongs to Grandmother and that the goblins have not bothered her since. This makes Curdie feel guilty for not believing Irene, and he resolves to make it up to her. (Chapter 23)

Chapters 25-32

Reading Check

1. He is shot in the leg by an arrow. (Chapter 25)

2. To Curdie’s mother at their cottage (Chapter 28)

3. He tells them to stomp on the goblins’ feet. (Chapter 27)

4. The kiss (Chapter 30)

Short Answer

1. The goblins plan to storm the farmhouse from underneath, and if that fails, they plan to flood the mines. (Chapters 26-27)

2. The goblins accidentally flood their own caverns after the miners block the mines from the stream, and many of them end up drowning. (Chapter 31)

3. Grandmother leads Curdie back to the cottage, and this means that she is ready for him to know her. (Chapter 28)