Якоб Гримм - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs / Белоснежка и семь гномов

She told them about the old pedlar woman and the apple. They told her how they had chased the old woman up a slope of boulders. They did not tell her that she was dead.

Snow White kissed each one of the dwarfs on his forehead and said, “Goodbye, my dears. I go with the Prince to his castle, but I shall never forget you.”

The Prince put her on his horse and climbed up after her. Then he galloped away.

The dwarfs returned to their cottage, happy that Snow White was alive and that she had found her Prince and happiness at last.

1. What did the Queen want to name her daughter? Why?

2. What did the new Queen have in her room? What did she ask it every morning? What did it answer?

3. Why was the Queen jealous of Snow White?

4. What did the magic mirror answer one day?

5. What did the Queen want to do to Snow White?

1. What did the Queen tell the palace guard to do?

2. What did she tell Snow White one morning?

3. Did the guard want to kill Snow White? Explain your answer.

4. What did the guard tell her about the Queen’s orders?

5. What did Snow White say, when the guard told her of the Queen’s orders?

1. What did the guard take back to the palace? Was the Queen happy to see it?

2. What did Snow White see in the distance? Who did she think it belonged to?

3. What did she see inside the cottage.

4. Why was Snow White hungry? What did she do?

5. What did Snow White do when she went upstairs?

1. To whom did the cottage belong?

2. What work did the dwarfs do?

3. What did they do every evening?

4. What did the dwarfs say when they saw Snow White sleeping on their beds?

5. What did they say to Snow White when she woke up?

1. What were the names of the seven dwarfs?

2. Describe Snow White’s life with the dwarfs.

3. Why was Snow White never lonely in the cottage?

4. Why were the dwarfs afraid to leave Snow White alone everyday?

5. What did Snow White promise the dwarfs?

1. What did the mirror answer after the guard returned?

2. What did the Queen decide to do to Snow White?

3. What did she first make?

4. What did she do with the apple? What would happen when Snow White ate it?

5. How could Snow White awaken from the deathlike sleep?

1. How did the Queen dress up before she went to the forest?

2. What had the dwarfs said to Snow White that morning?

3. What did Snow White answer?

4. What did she do before they left?

5. Who was shy, and who was ready to rush out?

1. Where was the pedlar woman hiding?

2. What did she do after the dwarfs had left?

3. What did the old woman bring for Snow White?

4. Why did Snow White feel sorry for the old woman?

5. Why did Snow White think that the old woman was poor?

1. Why did Snow White invite the pedlar woman inside?

2. What did the old woman want Snow White to take?

3. What did Snow White say, when the woman asked her why she could not take it?

4. What did the old woman say and do?

5. What happened when the old woman took a bite of the apple?

1. What were Snow White’s forest friends trying to do?

2. What did Snow White do, when she saw that the apple had not harmed the old woman?

3. What did her forest friends do when they saw her fall down?

4. What did the dwarfs say when they saw her forest friends?

5. What did they do?

1. What did the old woman hear when she began to leave?

2. What did the dwarfs say when they saw her running away?

3. What did they do?

4. Where did the old woman run?

5. What happened to her?

1. What did the dwarfs find, when they went back to their cottage?

2. What did they do with Snow White?

3. Who came through the forest one day? What did he do when he saw the glass coffin?

4. What happened when he kissed Snow White?

5. What did Snow White tell the dwarfs before she went with the Prince?

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