Study Guide Questions (Please excuse the terrible formatting!)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Answer the following questions in complete sentences in your notebook.
1. a. What does Christopher like? b. What does he dislike? c. Does he offer any rationalization for his likes and dislikes?
2. What color food does Christopher eat?
3. What kind of school does Christopher attend?
4. What does Christopher notice about the world around him?
5. How does Christopher make sense of his environment? What makes sense to him and what confuses him, and why?
6. To what extent does Christopher change or grow during the narrative? Explain.
7. How would this story change if we didn’t have a first-person narrator but had instead a third-person omniscient narrator?
8. Who are the other characters Christopher discusses or describes?
9.Christopher gives the reader a list of his behavioral problems. What are they?
10.What is the name of the dog that he finds?
11.What type of dog is it?
12.In the first few chapters of the novel, what is the reader told about Christopher’s mother?
13.What does Christopher eventually discover about his mother?
14.How does Christopher react to the information he discovers?
15.Who is the author of "Curious Incident"?
16.What are Christopher's favorite colors? Least favorite colors?
17.What are Christopher's behavioral problems (he lists them early on in the novel)?
18.What profession does Christopher think he'd be good at?
19.What designates a very good day for Chris? A very bad day?
20.Why did father kill Wellington?
21.Where does mother live currently?
22.What mode of transportation does the narrator use to get to his mother's house?
23.What is the name of Chris' pet rat?
24.What nickname is Chris given during his travels?
25.Which exam is Chris really eager to take at school?
26.What is Christopher's new pet named?
27.What new pet is he given at the end of the novel?
28.Does he get to his mom's house?
29. What does the narrator eat at his mom’s house?
30. What is Mr. Shears’ first name?
31. What is Christopher’s full name?