Slime KS2 Quiz (With Answers)

Q1 of 45

What is the name of the girl in Slime?

• Nic
• Nora
• Nell
• Nina

Q2 of 45

What medical condition does Nell have?

• She has a visual impairment
• She uses a wheelchair
• She uses crutches
• She is deaf

Q3 of 45

What island does most of the story take place on?

• Isle of Mulch
• Isle of Muck
• Drab Island
• Grey Island

Q4 of 45

What supernatural element is introduced in the story?

• A ghost helps Nell
• The island is enchanted
• Nell develops superpowers
• A magical living slime appears that does Nell's bidding

Q5 of 45

Who are the main villains trying to make Nell and her brother's lives miserable?

• Their classmates
• Their teachers
• A trio of horrible adults including their aunt
• The island council

Q6 of 45

What is the name of Nell's little brother?

• Ed
• Ned
• Eddie
• Teddy

Q7 of 45

What does the slime do to the villains?

• It traps them
• It transforms them
• It covers them in disgusting ways, humiliating and defeating them
• It follows them

Q8 of 45

What is the name of Nell's horrible aunt?

• Aunt Gloria
• Aunt Greta
• Aunt Griselda
• Aunt Gruesome

Q9 of 45

How does Nell first discover the slime's abilities?

• She creates it herself
• It appears mysteriously and responds to her needs and thoughts
• A scientist gives it to her
• She finds it in a cave

Q10 of 45

What does the slime seem to sense about Nell?

• Her location
• Her intelligence
• Her emotions and desires
• Her physical needs

Q11 of 45

What is the atmosphere of the Isle of Muck like?

• Tropical
• Sunny and pleasant
• Grey, damp, bleak and rather isolated
• Wild and dramatic

Q12 of 45

How does Nell use the slime to stand up to one of the bullying adults?

• She asks for help
• She reports them
• She films them
• She directs the slime to drench the adult in an enormously satisfying and disgusting comeuppance

Q13 of 45

What does Nell's disability mean for how she experiences the island?

• Her disability is not mentioned after the start
• She is defined only by her disability
• She cannot participate in island life
• She navigates island life differently from others, facing physical barriers that others don't see

Q14 of 45

What is the source or origin of the slime?

• It came from space
• It is explained scientifically
• Its origin is left mysterious
• Nell made it accidentally

Q15 of 45

What lesson does Nell learn about power through her experience with the slime?

• Power corrupts
• That power used for righteous purposes
• Slime is the best power
• That power should be used constantly

Q16 of 45

Who is Ned and what is his situation?

• A healthy boy who invents a creature made of slime
• A boy whose siblings bully him relentlessly
• A boy confined to bed due to serious illness
• A boy who discovers slime in a laboratory

Q17 of 45

What is Slime and what makes it special?

• A living creature that can change shape and size to become exactly what Ned needs at any moment
• A scientific experiment Ned controls remotely
• A runaway experiment from a local university
• A magical being sent to help Ned

Q18 of 45

Who are the villains Ned faces with Slime's help?

• A gang of bullies from his class
• His parents who keep sending him to a horrible boarding school
• His teachers who refuse to believe he is genuinely ill
• His cruel older siblings, a horrible nurse and a heartless landlord

Q19 of 45

How does Ned experience the story given his illness?

• He is not really ill
• Everything happens from his bed
• He goes on adventures directly, illness and all
• His illness is cured by Slime's arrival

Q20 of 45

What does Slime represent for Ned beyond being a helper?

• The power of science and invention
• A reflection of his anxiety made physical
• The part of Ned that wants to fight back but physically cannot
• A substitute for the friends he cannot have

Q21 of 45

How does Walliams use gross humour involving slime?

• As contrast with the emotional scenes about Ned's loneliness
• As the central comic device
• As decoration around the edges of a more serious story
• To appeal to the youngest readers only

Q22 of 45

What does Slime do at the end of the story?

• Defeats the villains and then disappears
• Stays permanently as Ned's companion
• Cures Ned's illness
• Transforms into a friend Ned can summon whenever he is lonely

Q23 of 45

What is the central theme of 'Slime'?

• That science can solve most problems
• That even when ill and powerless, help can come from the most unexpected place
• That imagination is stronger than physical strength
• That bullies always get what they deserve

Q24 of 45

How does Walliams balance comedy with the sadness of Ned's situation?

• By keeping the two entirely separate
• By resolving Ned's illness before the comedy starts
• By letting the comedy grow from the sadness
• By focusing almost entirely on comedy

Q25 of 45

What makes Slime an unusual Walliams character?

• It has no fixed personality
• It starts as evil and is reformed by Ned's kindness
• It is the first non-human main character in his books
• It speaks in full sentences unlike his other animal characters

Q26 of 45

What are the names of Ned's horrible older siblings?

• He has three siblings
• He has only one older sister called Gemma
• Bert and Mabel
• Jemima and Cedric

Q27 of 45

What is the name of the horrible nurse?

• Nurse Cross
• Nurse Needle
• Nurse Grimshaw
• Nurse Payne

Q28 of 45

What does Slime look like?

• It is translucent and slightly warm to the touch
• Green and glowing
• Sickly yellow-green with an unpleasant smell
• It changes colour depending on its mood

Q29 of 45

How does Slime first appear to Ned?

• It drips through a crack in the ceiling
• It appears in his sink when he turns on the tap
• It seeps under his bedroom door one night
• He finds it in a shoebox left outside his door

Q30 of 45

What does Ned's bedroom become over the course of the story?

• A place of danger because his siblings know he is trapped there
• Both a prison and, with Slime's help, a command centre from which he can fight back
• A prison he desperately wants to escape
• A sanctuary he wants to protect

Q31 of 45

How does Walliams use Nell's disability to explore themes of agency and empowerment?

• The slime provides Nell with a form of power that compensates for
• Disabled children are always vulnerable
• The disability is irrelevant to the themes
• Disability is a plot challenge

Q32 of 45

What does the slime represent as a fantastical device? What human desire does it fulfil?

• It represents magic generally
• The slime is for comedy, and
• It is just gross and funny
• The slime externalises the universal childhood fantasy of having power against unjust adult authority

Q33 of 45

How does the bleak setting of the Isle of Muck function in the novel?

• It is just an unusual backdrop
• The grey, isolated, unwelcoming island externalises the oppressive emotional atmosphere of Nell's situation
• The setting is irrelevant
• The island should be more interesting

Q34 of 45

What does the slime's responsiveness to Nell's emotions suggest about the relationship between inner life and outer power?

• The slime acting on Nell's feelings suggests that true power
• Inner life and outer power are unrelated
• The slime is more powerful than Nell
• The slime is magic, and

Q35 of 45

How does Walliams handle the portrayal of Nell's disability in a way that avoids common pitfalls of disability representation?

• Nell is a full person with personality, agency and desires beyond her disability
• Nell's disability creates unrealistic obstacles
• Nell is defined by her disability
• Disability should be invisible in fiction

Q36 of 45

What is Walliams saying about adult authority through the three villainous adults Nell faces?

• Most adults are villains
• All adults are villains
• Adult authority is always legitimate
• The three adult antagonists represent different forms of adult authority abuse

Q37 of 45

How does the relationship between Nell and Ed demonstrate sibling bonds under pressure?

• Ed is a secondary character, and
• Their bond under the pressure of difficult circumstances shows how shared adversity can strengthen sibling relationships
• Siblings are not important in this novel
• Siblings always fight

Q38 of 45

What does the novel suggest about justice — specifically, is the slime's brand of justice (humiliation and disgust) truly satisfying?

• The slime's justice is perfect
• The novel offers the visceral satisfaction of the slime's revenge while implicitly questioning whether humiliation is enough
• The novel fully endorses the slime's methods
• Revenge and justice are the same

Q39 of 45

How does the mystery surrounding the slime's origin contribute to the novel's atmosphere?

• The origin doesn't matter
• Mysteries should always be resolved
• The mystery is frustrating
• Leaving the slime's origin unexplained maintains its magical quality

Q40 of 45

What does the isolation of island life allow Walliams to do with the novel's power dynamics?

• The island removes normal escape routes and support systems
• The isolation is irrelevant
• Nothing particular
• Islands are unusual settings

Q41 of 45

How does Slime compare to other Walliams works in its use of a disabled protagonist?

• Nell's disability makes her a different kind of hero
• Nell represents a relatively rare choice in mainstream children's fiction
• Walliams always uses disabled protagonists
• Disabled protagonists are common

Q42 of 45

What does the comic grotesqueness of the slime's punishments — covering villains in disgusting, green goo — suggest about children's humour and its relationship to power?

• The humour is for entertainment, which is consistent with Dahl's characteristic directness as a storyteller
• Grotesque humour is childish
• Gross humour has no meaning
• Grotesque bodily humour

Q43 of 45

How does Walliams use the episodic structure — each villain getting their comeuppance in turn — to build narrative satisfaction?

• Episodic structures are weak
• The structure is too predictable
• The structure is repetitive
• The episodic structure creates a rhythm of injustice-then-justice that builds cumulative satisfaction while allowing each villain to be developed enough to make their defeat feel specifically appropriate rather than generic

Q44 of 45

What does the novel ultimately suggest about what happens to children when adult support systems fail?

• Adult systems never truly fail
• Children always find adult help
• Children develop their own resources, alliances and even supernatural means of self-protection when adult systems fail them
• Children are helpless without adults

Q45 of 45

In what ways does Slime fit into the tradition of wish-fulfilment fantasy for children?

• It is a near-perfect example of wish-fulfilment fantasy
• Wish-fulfilment is too simple
• Nell doesn't wish for power
• It is not wish-fulfilment