Chapter 1

Questions

1. What does the book make clear about the narrator at the start?
2. What does the narrator remember?
3. What does the narrator reveal about his choice of food?
4. Who else lives in the meadow with Beauty and his mother?
5. What do the six other colts, Beauty, and his mother do in the meadow?
6. What life lesson does Duchess give to Beauty?
7. What does Beauty call his owner, Farmer Grey?
8. How did Farmer Grey speak to the colts according to Beauty?
9. What nickname does Farmer Grey have for Beauty?
10. What does Dick do to the colts?
11. What does Farmer Grey do when he catches Dick throwing stones and sticks at the colts?

Answers

1. The narrator is not human.
2. The memory is of "a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clean water in it."
3. He lived "upon my mother's milk, as I could not eat grass."
4. Six other colts live with Beauty.
5. They gallop all together around the field, as hard as they could go.
6. "I hope you will grow up to be gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do you work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play."
7. He calls him his "master."
8. Farmer Grey spoke"as kindly to use as he did to his little children."
9. "Darkie" is Beauty's nickname.
10. He throws stones and sticks at them.
11. He punishes him with a "box on the ear."