Wizard of Oz Study Guide
Chapter 1�The Cyclone
1. Who did Dorothy live with?
2. What were their names?
3. Where did Dorothy live?
4. What was the name of her dog?
5. What is a cyclone?
6. What was the main thing that happened in this chapter
Chapter 2�The Council with Munchkins
1. Where did Dorothy�s house land?
2. Who did Dorothy first meet?
3. Who was the woman?
4. Who was killed when Dorothy�s house landed?
5. What happened to her body?
6. What are the names of the people who popped out after the witch was killed?
7. What did the Witch of the North give Dorothy?
8. Where was Dorothy told to go to get back to Kansas?
9. Who was she told to see?
10. What road did Dorothy have to follow?
Chapter 3�How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow
1. Who was Bog?
2. Who did Dorothy meet in the cornfield the next day?
3. How did Dorothy help the Scarecrow?
4. Why does the Scarecrow go to Oz with Dorothy?
5. What is the one thing that the Scarecrow is afraid of?
Chapter 4�The Road Through the Forest
1. What was the road like through the forest?
2. What does the Scarecrow reveal to Dorothy while they walk through the forest?
3. Once the farmer put the Scarecrow in the field, did it keep the crows away?
Chapter 5�The Rescue of the Tin WoodMan
1. What did Dorothy and the Scarecrow go looking for in the morning?
2. Who did Dorothy and the Scarecrow find near the spring?
3. What was the Tin Woodman�s problem?
4. What did the Tin Woodman want Oz to do for him?
5. How and why did the Woodman become the Tin Woodman?
Chapter 6�The Cowardly Lion
1. Who did Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman meet next while traveling down the Yellow Brick Road
2. What did Dorothy do to the Cowardly Lion?
3. What was the Lion�s problem?
4. What did the Lion want most of all?
Chapter 7�The Journey to the Great Oz
1. As Dorothy and the others continued on their journey, what did they encounter?
2. How did they cross the ditch?
3. What are Kalidahs?
4. How did they get away from Kalidahs when they attacked?
5. What was the final obstacle Dorothy and her friends encounter in the forest?
6. How were they going to cross the river?
Chapter 8�The Deadly Poppy Field
1. As they crossed the river what happened to the Scarecrow
2. What happened to Dorothy, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion?
3. How did the Scarecrow get rescued
4. What happened to this group after the Scarecrow was rescued
5. How did Dorothy get out of the poppy field?
6. What happened to the Lion?
Chapter 9�The Queen of the Field Mice
1. How was the Queen of the field mice saved from the wildcat?
2. How did the Queen of the field mice repay the Tin Woodman?
3. Briefly explain how the Queen and her field mice subjects helped save the Lion?
Chapter 10�The Guardian of the Gate
1. After the Lion was removed from the poppy field and had awakened what was the color of all of the houses they saw?
2. With whom did Dorothy and the others spend the night?
3. What did the man say The Wizard of Oz looked like?
4. What did the Guardian of the Gate look like?
5. What did the Guardian have Dorothy and the others wear?
Chapter 11�The Wonderful Emerald City of Oz
1. What was the color of everything and everyone in the Emerald City?
2. Where did The Wizard of Oz live in the Emerald City?
3. How many people were allowed to see The Wizard of Oz out Dorothy�s group?
4. In what room did each visitor meet Oz?
5. How did Dorothy get the mark on her forehead?
6. What did The Wizard of Oz ask Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion to do in exchange for his help?
7. What did The Wizard of Oz look like when he met Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion?
Chapter 12�The Search for the Wicked Witch
1. Where did the Guardian of the Gate tell Dorothy and the others to find the wicked Witch of the West?
2. How many eyes did the Wicked Witch of the West have?
3. What did the witch do when she spotted Dorothy?
4. What happened?
5. What did the witch do after the wolves failed in the mission?
6. 6. What happened these crows?
7. What did the witch do next? What happened?
8. What happened next?
9. Then what did the witch do?
10. What did the Winged Monkeys do?
11. What did the wicked Witch do to Dorothy and the Lion?
12. What was the wicked Witch�s plan to get Dorothy�s silver shoes?
13. Did the wicked Witch�s plan work completely?
14. What happened next?
Chapter 13�The Rescue
1. Who helped Dorothy and theLion resue the Tin Woodman?
2. How was the Scarecrow rescued?
3. When Dorothy went to the witch�s cupboard to get food for their journey back to the Emerald city, what did she take besides food?
Chapter 14�The Winged Monkeys
1. How did Dorothy learn the secret of the Golden Cap?
2. Why did Dorothy and the others need the help of the Winged Monkeys?
3. Why did the Winged Monkeys have to obey the holder the Golden Cap?
Chapter 15�The Discovery of Oz the Terrible
1. What made The Wizard of Oz finally agree to see Dorothy and her friends?
2. Who was The Wizard of Oz?
3. . How did the Wizard create the different forms that Dorothy and her friends saw when they first met the Wizard?
4. How did the Wizard get to the Emerald City?
5. Why was everything green in the Emerald City?
6. What did Dorothy and her friends call the Wizard after this meeting?
Chapter 16�The Magic Art of the Great Humbug
1. How did the Wizard give the Scarecrow brains?
2. How did the Wizard give the Woodman a heart?
3. How did the Wizard give the Lion courage?
Chapter 17�How the Balloon was Launched
1. How did the Wizard plan on getting Dorothy back to Kansas?
2. Why did the Wizard decide to leave Oz and go back to Kansas with Dorothy
3. Who did the Wizard tell the people of the Emerald City would rule them in his absence?
4. What happened on the day the balloon was set to take off?
Chapter 18�Away to the South
1. Who did Dorothy and her friends call on to help Dorothy get back to Kansas?
2. Were they able to help Dorothy
3. What did the soldier with the green whiskers suggest?
Chapter 19�Attacked by the Fighting Trees
1. What happened to Dorothy and her friends as they traveled through the forest to see Glenda?
2. How did they get away from their attackers?
3. What did this group encounter when they reached the end of the forest?
4. How did they overcome this obstacle?
Chapter 20�The Dainty China Country
1. What was on the other side of the china wall?
2. Whom did Dorothy and her friends frighten? What happened?
3. What did the Lion break when he was jumping over the wall as they were leaving the dainty china country?
4. What did Dorothy want to bring back to Kansas from this country?
5. Why didn�t she take this person?
Chapter 21�The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts
1 . How did the Lion become the King of Beasts in the forest?
2. What did this monster look like?
Chapter 22�The Country of the Quadlings
1. What was stopping Dorothy and the others from crossing the steep hill and reaching the country of the Quadlings?
2. How did they get past these creatures?
3. What did the Quadlings look like?
Chapter 23�The Good Witch Grants Dorothy�s Wish
1. What did Glenda ask from Dorothy in exchange for her telling Dorothy how to get back to Kansas?
2. What was going to happen to the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion when Dorothy returned to Kansas?
3. What did Glenda use her three wishes with the Golden Cap for?
4. How did Dorothy get back to Kansas?
Chapter 24�Home Again
1. Who did Dorothy see when she first returned to Kansas?
2. In your opinion who/what was responsible for Dorothy’s “trip” to Oz? Who was the real bad guy?
