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rat king.jpg (7519 bytes)Read the "Pied Piper of Hamelin" and print this page.  Answer the questions and turn them into your teacher.

1. Where does this story take place?  Is it a real place?

 

2.  What is the town's problem?

 

3. Why did the Mayor finally realize it was time to do something about the town's problem?

 

4.  Enter the Pied Piper.  Describe what the Pied Piper looked like.  What was he wearing?

 

5.  How did the Pied Piper convince the Mayor and the Council he was the "man for the job?"

 

6.  What happened when the Pied Piper asked to be paid?

 

7.  Name the three reasons the Council would not pay the Piper.

 

8.  What did the Pied Piper do in revenge for not getting paid?

 

9.  How did the lame boy feel about getting left behind?

 

10.  What did the lame boy say about the location where the Pied Piper took the children?

 

11.  What did the townspeople do to memorialize (remember) the children?

 

12.  What happened in Transylvania?  Who were those people?

 

13.  What does the author of the poem suggest you do to keep this from happening to you?