Fing KS2 Quiz (With Answers)

Q1 of 45

What is a 'Fing'?

• A mysterious creature that Myrtle demands as a pet
• A fictional country
• A type of sweet
• A made-up word with no meaning

Q2 of 45

What is the name of the impossibly spoilt girl in Fing?

• Myrtle
• Minnie
• Molly
• Myra

Q3 of 45

How do Myrtle's parents respond to all of her demands?

• They argue with her
• They give in to absolutely everything she wants, no matter how impossible
• They refuse her
• They send her to her room

Q4 of 45

Where do Myrtle's parents go to find a Fing?

• A magical zoo
• The internet
• A pet shop
• The end of the world where impossible things live

Q5 of 45

What happens when a Fing is actually found?

• It is perfect and Myrtle loves it
• It is nothing like what Myrtle imagined and causes enormous chaos
• It escapes immediately
• It is exactly what Myrtle wanted

Q6 of 45

How does the Fing behave when it arrives?

• It is wild, destructive and completely uncontrollable
• It is calm and affectionate
• It speaks to Myrtle
• It is small and timid

Q7 of 45

What does Myrtle's behaviour suggest about the nature of wanting things?

• The act of getting what you want rarely brings the satisfaction you imagined
• Children should not want things
• Myrtle is simply a bad person
• Wanting things always leads to happiness

Q8 of 45

What is the setting of the story?

• A city
• A fantasy world
• The countryside
• A suburb — the Myrtle family's ordinary house that becomes extraordinary with the Fing in it

Q9 of 45

How do Myrtle's parents feel about getting the Fing?

• Happy it is done
• Proud
• Excited
• Increasingly terrified as they realise what they have unleashed

Q10 of 45

What is the name of Myrtle's father?

• Mr Mills
• Mr Moffat
• Mr Mortle
• Mr Meek

Q11 of 45

What is the name of Myrtle's mother?

• Mrs Mills
• Mrs Mortle
• Mrs Meek
• Mrs Moffat

Q12 of 45

What does the Fing look like?

• A large dog
• Something utterly bizarre and impossible to describe
• A giant cat
• A small harmless creature

Q13 of 45

What eventually happens to the Fing?

• It is tamed
• Myrtle keeps it forever
• It runs away on its own
• It causes so much chaos that it has to leave, and Myrtle finally learns a lesson

Q14 of 45

How does the story end for Myrtle?

• She apologises to her parents
• She learns that having everything you demand does not bring happiness
• She gets another impossible pet
• She is unchanged

Q15 of 45

What is the main comic device of the book?

• Wordplay
• Physical comedy only
• Myrtle's parents' arguments
• The escalating disaster caused by actually getting the impossible thing you wished for

Q16 of 45

Who is Myrtle and what is she like?

• A girl who is bullied at school and takes it out on her parents
• A horribly spoilt only child who always demands the impossible from her exhausted parents
• A kind girl who is misunderstood by her parents
• A curious girl who loves collecting unusual creatures

Q17 of 45

What is a 'Fing'?

• A creature from another dimension
• A real but undiscovered species from the jungle
• A creature described in a magical book that Myrtle's father finds in a peculiar library
• An imaginary creature Myrtle invents to torment her parents

Q18 of 45

What happens when Myrtle actually gets a Fing?

• The Fing turns out to be terrifying and causes chaos
• She loves it and for the first time becomes content
• She immediately demands a second one
• She is bored by it within minutes

Q19 of 45

What does the story suggest about always giving children everything they demand?

• That it makes children happy and grateful
• That parents who spoil children are simply showing love
• That it teaches children the value of things
• That it leads only to chaos

Q20 of 45

Who are Myrtle's parents and how do they behave?

• Mr and Mrs Fing
• The Wonkies
• The Grubsters
• Mr and Mrs Dundee

Q21 of 45

How is 'Fing' structured differently from most Walliams novels?

• It is much longer with more complex subplots
• It is shorter and simpler
• It is told from the parents' perspective
• It has no villain

Q22 of 45

Why is Myrtle a comic rather than a sympathetic character?

• Because she is too young to know better
• Because she has no self-awareness whatsoever
• Because Walliams makes her too extreme to identify with
• Because the illustrations make her look funny rather than mean

Q23 of 45

What does the Fing's behaviour after it arrives show?

• That getting exactly what you wish for can create more problems than you anticipated
• That some wishes are better left unfulfilled
• That wishes always come true if you want them enough
• That parents should always try to fulfil children's desires

Q24 of 45

What does 'Fing' suggest about Myrtle's parents as much as about Myrtle herself?

• That they are victims of a spoilt child who is beyond help
• That they are wonderful parents being taken advantage of
• That they are as much the problem as Myrtle
• That they secretly enjoy Myrtle's wildness

Q25 of 45

What is the gentle lesson for young readers?

• That parents should always be firmer with their children
• That endlessly demanding more leads only to chaos and unhappiness
• That imaginary creatures are more interesting than real ones
• That children should be grateful for everything they have

Q26 of 45

How do Mr and Mrs Dundee feel after years of granting Myrtle's every demand?

• Relieved because Myrtle's demands have become more reasonable as she gets older
• Exhausted and hollow
• Resigned but secretly proud of Myrtle's determination
• Happy because they love making their daughter happy

Q27 of 45

What is the Fing's most alarming characteristic when it is finally found?

• It is enormous
• It is immediately aggressive towards Myrtle and everything around it
• It makes an ear-splitting sound that cannot be stopped
• It seems to multiply

Q28 of 45

What does Myrtle's reaction to the Fing reveal about truly spoilt children?

• That getting what they want is never enough
• That spoilt children can change if they experience real consequences
• That they are eventually grateful when they get what they want
• That Myrtle is more frightened by the Fing than she lets on

Q29 of 45

How does the Fing plot mirror what has happened in the Dundee household for years?

• The Fing and Myrtle bond because they are exactly the same
• The Fing is exactly what Myrtle deserves and the parents know it
• The Fing creates the same problems as Myrtle, showing she has corrupted the family
• The Fing represents the accumulated damage of years of giving in

Q30 of 45

What does the ending imply about whether the Dundees have learned anything?

• That Myrtle has grown slightly through the experience
• That the chaos the Fing creates is a turning point for the family
• That they have finally learned to say no to Myrtle
• That they are incapable of changing

Q31 of 45

What is Walliams's central satirical target in Fing, and how does he use comedy to make his point?

• He targets magic creatures
• Fing is a satire of extreme parental indulgence and the culture of satisfying children's every demand
• Walliams supports indulgent parenting
• The book has no satirical target

Q32 of 45

What does Myrtle represent as a character type in children's literature?

• An original character
• Myrtle fits the tradition of the spoilt, unpleasant child whose unpleasantness is ultimately a product of parental failure rather than innate evil
• Spoilt children are bad
• Myrtle is unique in literature

Q33 of 45

How does the Fing — as an impossible, unnamed thing — function as a metaphor?

• The Fing has no symbolic meaning
• Metaphors are too complex for picture books
• The Fing represents the impossible ideal
• The Fing is a silly creature, and

Q34 of 45

What does the behaviour of Myrtle's parents suggest about the damage caused by refusing to say no to children?

• Parents should always give children what they want
• The parents are weak
• Saying yes always helps children
• Their complete inability to refuse Myrtle

Q35 of 45

How does the escalating structure of the novel — each demand leading to a bigger disaster than the last — function as a moral fable?

• The escalation has no moral purpose
• The escalation is for excitement, and
• Fables and comedy don't mix
• The escalating structure follows fable logic: each demand and its consequences is worse than the last, building to the inevitable catastrophe of the Fing, which is the logical conclusion of a life with no limits

Q36 of 45

What does the journey to 'the end of the world' represent symbolically?

• It is just a funny trip
• The end of the world
• It represents adventure
• The journey is a real place

Q37 of 45

In what ways does Fing function as a book that speaks both to child and adult readers simultaneously?

• It is only for children
• Adult humour doesn't belong in children's books
• The book is for adults, and
• Children enjoy the chaos and the strange creature; adults recognise the parental satire and the familiar nightmare of indulgent parenting taken to its logical extreme

Q38 of 45

What does the Fing's physical indescribability suggest about the nature of impossible desires?

• Walliams couldn't think of a description
• The indescribability is funny, and
• The creature's indescribability mirrors the nature of impossible wants
• Impossible things can always be described

Q39 of 45

How does Fing compare to Roald Dahl's Veruca Salt in its exploration of extreme childish demand?

• Veruca Salt is a better character
• They are completely different characters
• Walliams copies Dahl directly
• Both Myrtle and Veruca Salt are portraits of the spoilt child taken to comic extremes, but Walliams is more interested in parental failure where Dahl focuses on the child's own moral deficiency

Q40 of 45

What does the resolution — Myrtle's lesson — suggest about whether children can change, and what prompts change?

• Myrtle doesn't really change
• Myrtle learns because she is clever
• Consequences don't teach children
• Myrtle changes not through being told to but through experiencing the direct, catastrophic consequences of her own demands

Q41 of 45

How does the absurdist humour of the Fing concept itself — a creature with no defined nature — engage young readers?

• Absurdism is for adult literature
• Children delight in the imaginative freedom of a creature that can be anything
• Young readers need concrete descriptions
• Absurdism confuses young readers

Q42 of 45

What does the book suggest about the relationship between boredom and impossible demands? Is Myrtle's desire for a Fing actually a desire for something else?

• Myrtle's impossible demand may be a symptom of a deeper restlessness that no possession can satisfy
• Myrtle is satisfied by everything she has
• Myrtle wants a Fing
• All children want impossible things

Q43 of 45

How does Walliams use the picture-book format of Fing to make his satirical points accessible to very young readers?

• The picture-book format limits the satire
• Satire works in text, and
• The visual comedy
• Young children cannot access satire

Q44 of 45

What does the ending of Fing — chaos resolved, lesson perhaps learned — suggest about consequences as a pedagogical tool?

• Children should be shielded from consequences
• Consequences are too harsh for children
• The ending gently argues that allowing children to experience the natural consequences of their demands
• Myrtle's lesson is unrealistic

Q45 of 45

In what way is Fing a book about imagination — specifically about what happens when imagination is used purely in service of desire?

• Fing is not about imagination
• Desire and imagination are unrelated
• The Fing is the product of pure imaginative desire
• Imagination is always positive