The Indian in the Cupboard

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Who is the main character in the book?: Omri
What is the name of the book?: The Indian in the Cupboard
Who is the Author: Lynne Reid Banks
Who is Omri's Best friend?: Patrick
What Birthday present did Patrick give Omri?: A secondhand plastic Indian that he had finished playing with
What was Omri getting tired of?: Plastic Toys
Where did Omri have all of his plastic toys?: They were in a Biscuit Tin and scattered in the loft, in the kitchen and breakfast room, the garden and Omri's bedroom
Why did Omri like the Indian that Patrick gave him?: he did not have one
Who were Gillion and Adiel: Omri's two brothers?
What birthday present did Omri get from his family?: A skateboard complete with kickboard and kryptonic wheels
What gift did Gillion give Omri for his birthday?: A white metal cabinet with a mirror in the door
Where did Gillion find his present?: In the alley
What did Omri wish the white cabinet would have?: a key lock
What was in the box the Omri's mother gave him to look in?: A bunch of old keys
What key did Omri Pick?: a small one with a red satin ribbon through the loop hole.
Where did the red satin key come from?: His grandmother's jewel box from Florence
What did Omri put into his cupboard?: The Indian Patrick gave him
What did Omri hear the next day when he woke up?: A pattering, tapping, scrabbling noise and a tiny voice
What was it?: The indian and he was alive
What did Omri do every Thursday?: His class went to the pool
Instead of skateboarding, What did Patrick want to do afterschool?: He wanted to play indian
What was Omri afraid of the first day he shut the door?: He was afraid the Indian had died
What did the Indian want from Omri?: Need, Blanket food and fire
What was the first thing Omri fed the Indian?: a good teaspoon of corn, crusty corner of bread, coke
What did the Indian drink out of?: An Action Man plastic mug
Omri wanted to make the indian a tepee but what did the indian want instead?: A longhouse
What is the Indian's name?: Little Bear
What did Little Bear want the in the morning?: Meat, fire and colors
What did Little Bear sleep in?: A plastic teepee
What did Omri figure out about the Indian and the cupboard?: He thought the cupboard and the key brought him to life
What else about Little Bear became real?: his clothes, his feather and his knife
What did Omri put into the cupboard to see if turned real also? Did It?: A matchbox car
What kind of Indian was Little Bear?: Iroquois
What kind of food did Little Bear keep saying he wanted?: Meat
What kind of meat did Omri find in his mother's cupboard?: Corned Beef
What happened to Little Bear's mother?: She died
How did Little Bear think Omri did things for him?: Magic
What did Little Bear want Omri to get him?: A gun
What did Omri say he would get for Little Bear?: A bow and arrow, (Plastic ones) and a horse
What kind of horse did Little Bear get?: a smallish brown horse with two white feet
What happened to the plastic horse once it was put in to the cupboard?: It immediately came alive and started acting crazy
Where did Omri take the horse and Little Bear?: He put them into a cardboard box and took them outside
Who came outside and caught Omri in his Pajamas?: His Dad
What happened to Little Bear in the box going into the house?: The horse was afraid and kicked him and he was bleeding on the leg
What did Omri put into the cabinet to help Little Bear get better?: A First World War solider with a red arm band and a medical bag
What was in the medical bag?: bottles, pill boxes, ointments, steel instruments and a needle
What was the name of the solider?: Tommy Atkins
What did Omri get from the greenhouse for Little Bear?: A seed tray full of soil
What did Omri cut off the tree to give to Little Bear to make the longhouse?: Bark, silvery flakey
What tool did Omri give Little Bear to help him build his longhouse?: An axe from a knight in the Biscuit tin
What book did Omri get from the school library to help with Indians?: On the Trail of The Iroquois
Omri learned two interesting things from his book, what were they?: Iroquois Indians were some times called "The Five Nations",. And one of the five were called Mohawks
What were some of the foods the Iroquois Indians ate?: maize, squash, beans
What were these 3 vegetables called?: "The Three Sisters"
Who were the Iroquois enemies?: Algonquins
What kind of store was Yapp's?: local news agent and toystop
What did Omri do at lunchtime?: He went to Yapp's and bought a chief indian with a full headress and cloak and a bow in his hand and a quiverful of arrows slung on his back.
What was the real reason that Omri bought the chief?: He wanted the bows and arrows
How did Omri pay for the chief indian?: With some of his lunch money
What did Omri make in his handcrafts class?: He was sewing a tepee and trying to make it real like
When Ormi came home from school what did he notice upstairs?: A longhouse
What did the horse leave on the ramp near the longhouse?: Poop
What happened to the chief once he was put into the cupboard?: He was a very old man and he came to life
What happened to the chief in the cupboard?: He died
What did Little Bear take from the chief after he died?: His striped his body, taking his headress, bow and arrows and the big decorated cloak
What did Little Bear want from Omri so he could hunt with his bow?: A deer
What did Omri's dad want back from Omri?: The seed tray he took from the greenhouse
What did Omri tell his dad he would do about the seed tray?: He said he would go the hardware and buy a new one
At the hardware store what did Omri read on the seed packet?: under the word Marrow was written "Squash"
What is Maize?: corn
What did Patrick buy at Yapp's for Omri?: A cowboy on a horse with a pistol
Did Omri share his secret of the indian with Patrick?: yes
How long were Patrick and Omri friends?: Since they started school
What did Patrick suggest to Ormi for fire?: A little ball of tar
Who was in Ormi's room when he came home to show Patrick his indian?: Gillon and Adiel
What were the boys really amazed about?: The details of the longhouse
What did Patrick want to bring alive next?: armies
What did Little Bear want Ormi to get so he could hunt?: A Bear
What did Omri take from his mom's kitchen for Little Bear to eat?: A small piece of raw meat
What did Omri use to cook the meat on?: A flat box from his Erector set
What happened to the cook meat?: It got knocked over and stepped on by Omri
What was Omri's mother making for dinner?: Stew
What did Omri do with the Stew?: He brought it up to Little Bear
What did Patrick do while Omri was down getting Stew?: He put the cowboy and horse into the cupboard
What kind of horse was it?: It was snow white with a long mane
What was Omri afraid about the cowboy?: He had a real gun
What did the cowboy do to Patrick?: He shot him in the face with the gun
What did Omri do for Patrick after he was shot?: He squeezed out a invisible speck of metal
When Little Bear was eating his stew what did he ask Omri for?: Another wife
What did Patrick want to take home with him?: the cowboy and horse in his pocket.
What did Omri promise to bring to school for Patrick the next day?: The Cowboy and the horse
What kind of accent did the cowboy have?: Texan
What did Little Bear keep asking Omri for?: Fire
What did Omri do for Little Bear to keep him warm?: He made a small fire outside the longhouse
What woke up Omri the next morning?: Shots
What was Little Bear and the cowboy doing?: They were fighting
Where did Little Bear want to go?: To school
What reason did Omri consider taking him to school?: So he could take him to Yapp's to look for a wife
What was the cowboy's name?: Boone, but most fellows call him Boohoo
What did Omri cook for breakfast for Boone?: eggs, and a tin of beans and a piece of bread
What did Omri tell Little Bear and Boone about breakfast?: they would have to get along if they wanted to eat
What did Boone need to start his day with?: coffee
What did Little Bear and Boone do after breakfast?: They fought rolled on the ground and kicked
What did Little Bear do before going to school?: He washed up
What did Omri bring him to use for his bath?: A low type egg cup with hot water and a corner of soap cut off like a slice of cake
Did Boone wash up for school?: yes
Where did Omri put Little Bear and Boone so he could take them to school?: His pocket
What did Omri do to Boone ande Little Bear at school so they would not fight?: He put them in seperate pockets
When Omri got to school why was Patrick wating for him?: He wanted his cowboy and horse
Who saw Omri give Patrick his cowboy and Indian?/: April
What happened after April starting pointing at Patrick?: The other kids starting coming over
Who is the headmaster of the school?: Mr. Johnson
What happened to Omri while he was sitting listening to Mr. Johnson?: Little Bear was tired of being in his pocket he started to jab him with sharp pricks
What was Little Bear jabbing Omri with?: His Knife
What did Mr. Johnson tell the boys?: To leave
When Omri got outside what did he do to Little Bear?: He shook him like a bottle of medicine and called him all kind of names.
Why was Little Bear doing all those bad things?: He wanted to see school
Who did Little Bear want to play with because he was bored?: Boone
At lunchtime Omri promised Patrick what?: That he could have Boone and Little Bear together
How did Omri feel about sharing both Little Bear and Boone?: He was angry and sad and lost his appetite for lunch
Where did Patrick keep Little Bear and Boone?: In his jean pockets
What did Patrick try to feed them?: A little piece of bread
What happened at lunchtime?: He started pushing with a girl and landed on the floor
Where did Patrick go to feed the Cowboy and Indian?: In the music room
What was the name of the teacher?: Miss Hilton
Where did Miss Hilton send the boys for distrubing the class?: The Headmaster's office
Who happened to Omri in the headmaster's office?: Little Bear stuck him with the knife
What did Patrick tell the Headmaster about Omri's Indian?: He told him that he was real and his name was Little Bear
What happened to Omri and Patrick after Patrick told the headmaster about Little Bear?: They started to fight and Patrick wanted to show the indian to the headmaster
What happened to Mr. Johnson after the fight?: He wanted to go home, after Patrick showed him Little Bear and Boone
What did Omri want from Patrick after the fight?: He wanted boy the Little Bear and Boone back from him.
What were Little Bear and Boone doing?: They were trembling and hiding their faces.
Why was Omri mad at Patrick?: Because he used Little Bear and Boone. He told Patrick they were people not toys.
What did Omri do right aftershool for Little Bear?: He promised him a wife
What class did Omri have left at the end of the day?: Art
What did Boone do in art class?: He started to sketch a prairie landscape, with hills, catci and a few tuffs of sagebrush
What was the name of the saloon that Boone drew?: Golden Dollar Saloon
Boone asked Omri what year it was in his time?: 1889
What did the teacher think of Omri's artwork?: She could not believe how tiny it was and how he did it.
Did Omri really draw the picture?: No
Where did Omri go afterschool?: To Yapp's
Why did Omri run to Yapp's?: He wanted to beat the rest of the kids from school.
Where did Omri put Little Bear and Boone?: He put them in the bin with all of the other plastic figures
How many lady indians did Little Bear find in the bin?: 5
What kind of lady indian did Little Bear pick?: she had a red dress on and a pigtail and headband and a single feather like the others
How much did Mr. Yapp charge for the lady indian?: Ten pence
What did Mr. Yapp accuse Omri of doing?: Stealing
Who came to Omri's rescue in the store?: Patrick
What did Patrick tell Mr. Yapp?: That Ormi brought them to school and that they were his.
What did Omri tell Little Bear and Boone to do when he was going to show Mr. Yapp them?: He told them to be plastic and lie still.
What did Patrick and Omri give Little Bear and Boone for playing dead?: Chocolate
What did Omri ask Patrick to do that night?: He asked him to stay and watch the indian girl come become real
What did Omri and Patrick make to eat to take upstairs?: Peanut butter on bread and mugs of milk.
Why did they want to hurry upstairs?: They were going to make the girl indian come alive.
What was missing when the boys got upstairs?: The white medicine cabinet was gone.
Who took the white cupboard?: Adiel
Why did he take the cupboard?: He was teaching Omri a lesson because he thought he took his navy shorts.
Where did Omri look for the cupboard?: In Adiel's room
Where did Omri find Adiel's shorts?: Behind the radiator.
Where did Adiel say he hid the cupboard?: The attic
What was missing from the cupboard?: The key
What kind of stuff was in the attic?: marbles, wheels,Lego, parts of games, cards, parachute men and so on.
What did the boys do with all of the stuff in the attic?: The organized it into shelves.
What did Omri sweep off the floor?: mud, dust and sand
What was Omri afraid of?: Sweeping the key away.
What did Little Bear want from Omri?: Woman alive
What did Omri feed Little Bear and Boone?: Chocolate
What did Omri tell Little Bear the reason he could not bring indian woman to life?: Magic gone
Why did'nt Omri tell his mother that he had lost the key?: He was to ashamed
What did Omri do to cheer up Little Bear and Boone?: He brought the horses out to ride.
Who helped Omri look for his key?: Adiel and Gillion
What bad habit did Boone have?: Spitting into Spitoons
What were Omri, Little Boone and Patrick watching?: A western
What happened to Boone?: He was shot with an arrow in the chest.
Who was supposed to take the arrow out of Boone?: Little Bear
What id Omri want Little Bear to do?: Check and see if Boone was alive or dead.
Was Little Bear sorry for shooting Boone?: Yes
How did Little Bear, Patrick and Omri take care of Boone?: The put Listerine on it and cut out a small piece of bandaid.
What kind of bed did Patrick make for Boone?: Folden Hankerchief another woolen square cut from his sweater.
What did Little Bear do because he felt bad for shooting Boone?: He threw down his chief's headress and ran to his longhouse.
How did Omri read at night?: Semi- darkness
What was loose underneath the floor boards?: a rat
What was Patrick and Omri afraid of?: The rat getting to Boone and Little Bear.
What did Patrick and Boone decide to do to keep Boone and Little Bear safe?: The were going to stay up all night.
Where did Omri figure out the key might be?: Under to floor
What did Little Bear want to do to make Boone better?: He wanted fire, make dance and call spirits.
Who did Omri ask to help find the key?: Little Bear
Did Little Bear agree to help?: Yes
How did Little Bear get down through the floor boards?: He went through the whole that the rat chewed with a candle light.
What was Ormi afraid of for Little Bear?: That the rat might eat him.
Who heard the noise upstairs?: Omri's mother
What did Omri and Patrick do to let Omri's mother know they were sleeping?: They hurried into bed, turned out the light and closed their eyes tight.
Did Little Bear find the key?: Yes
Who was Omri going to find to make Boone better?: Red Cross man.
Did Red Cross man have a name?: Tommy
What is a Minnie?: Minnenwefer - one of those German big shells.
What did Little Bear have to give Boone when he wakes up?: pills
What medicine did they need for Boone?: Penicillin
What did they use to treat him instead? Why: Brandy - because Penicillin was not invented yet
What did Omri tell Little Bear he was going to make Boone when he got better?: Blood brothers
What did Little Bear want Omri to do that night?: He wanted indian girl to be real.
What did Omri do while everyone was sleeping?: Put the Indian girl into the cupboard.
What did Little Bear and the Indian girl do?: They talked and then held hands together.
Did Little Bear like the girl indian?: yes
What did he want to pay Omri with?: His shiny white belt with beads.
What was the Indian girl supposed to do?: Give medicine and take care of Boone.
What did Little Bear want Omri to do?: Prepare wedding feast
What did Little Bear want to do before he went back into the cupboard?: He wanted to make Boone his blood brother.
What was the name of the Indian Girl? Why?: Bright Stars, because of her shiney eyes.
Who did Patrick want to share the secret of the Indian and the cowboy with?: Their brothers
What did the boys buy at Yapp's for the wedding feast?: salted nuts, chips, chocolate.
What else did the boys get?: A quarter pound of meat from the butcher, bread, biscuits, cake and soda, and a dropper full of hardstuff.
How did Little Bear and Boone become Blood brothers?: They nicked their wrists together.
What did Bright Stars do for Little Bear and Boone?: She tore a piece off her red dress and tied their wrists together.
What did Little Bear want to do after the feast?: Go back
What did Omri tell Little Bear he had to do to make sure Bright Stars went back with him?: Hold her tight
How did Boone have to go back?: Seperately
What did Patrick want to do to Boone before he left?: He wanted to wake him up to say good-bye.
How did Boone feel about good-byes.: He started to get choked up and cry.
What did Omri and Little Bear do to each other.: They became blood brothers.
What happened in the cupboard after Ormi put eveyone in?: When he opened it they were all plastic again.
Where did Omri take his plastic Indians and put them?: On a shelf nearest to his bed
What did Omri want his mother to keep?: The key
What did Omri's mother decide to do with the key?: She was going to get a chain and wear it.
What did Omri want to do with the empty cupboard?: He was going to put all kinds of medicines in it.
Why did Patrick want to leave the cupboard emtpy?: Just in case.
Who is the main character in the book?: Omri

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