1. THE CANTERVILLE GHOST
OSCAR WILDE

2. HOW MUCH DO YOU REMEMBER?
USE THE PICTURES AND THE QUESTIONS TO RETELL THE STORY.

3. CHAPTER 1
Who was Mr Otis?
What did Lord Canterville tell him about the house?
What did Mr Otis think about that?

4. Who did the Otis meet when they arrived?
What did they see in the library?
What did the housekeeper tell them about the stain?
What did Washington do?

5. CHAPTER 2 Why were the family surprised the next morning?
Why did Mr Otis wake up?
What was the ghost like?
How did Mr Otis react when he saw the ghost?
What did the twins do?
How did the ghost feel? Why?

6. CHAPTER 3 Why was Mr Otis angry the next morning?
What happened to the blood-stain every night?

7. When did the Otis see the ghost again?
Why couldn’t Sir Simon put on his suit of armour?
What did the twins do?

8. How did the ghost try to scare the Otis?
What did Mrs Otis do?
How did the ghost feel?

9. What new plan did Sir Simon think of?
Why did it fail?

10. CHAPTER 4
Why did Sir Simon have to walk through the house once a week?
Why didn’t anyone hear him?
How did he try to frighten the twins?
Why did this plan fail too?

11. How did the twins scare the ghost once again?
Why did the Otis think that there was no ghost in the house any more?
Why was Sir Simon angry?

12. CHAPTER 5
How did Virginia react when she saw Sir Simon in the library?
Why couldn’t the ghost have a quiet time?
Why did Virginia think that Sir Simon was terrible?
What happened to him after he killed his wife?

13. Why was the ghost so unhappy?
What was “The Garden of Death”?
The ghost told Virginia an old story. What was it about?

14. How could Virginia help him?
What did she decide to do?

15. CHAPTER 6 Why were all the family and Cecil worried?
What did Sir Simon give Virginia before he died?
What did everybody see when they went into the small room?

16. CHAPTER 7 Where did they bury Sir Simon?
Why did Mr Otis want to give the jewels back to Lord Canterville?
What did Lord Canterville reply?

17. What did Virginia and Cecil do a few years later?
Where did they go when they arrived at Canterville Chase?
What did Cecil want to know?