Here some questions to test your knowledge of 'The Haunted Trousers'. Try to anwer them without looking at the book if you can. If you get stuck, the chapters where you can find the answers are given at the end of each question. All the answers are on a separate page (no cheating now!).

1. Why does Jamie sometimes 'read Emma a story' before they go to bed? (chapter 2)

2. Who did Jamie have in mind to repair the tear in Emma's dungarees? (chapter 4)

3. Why was Emma upset when they first started to listen to Tom's story on the tape? (chapter 5)

4. Why does Michael call his mouse 'Herbert'? (chapter 7)

5. Who is the Chairman of the Governors at Dilcombe Village School? (chapter 8)

6. What sort of sweets does Jamie bring Emma when she is in hospital? (chapter 10)

7. What item of gym equipment does Emma really dislike? (chapter 14)

8. What did Michael do when he first saw Tom's Angel? (chapter 16 )

9. What was the shape of the pendant given to Emma by Tom's Angel? (chapter 18)

10. What did Michael use as a Time Portal when they went back to Knobby Clarke's gym lesson? (chapter 20)

11. How did Emma prevent the girl in her class asking too many questions when she was talking to the invisible Tom? (chapter 21)

12. What was the main reason given by the Chairman of the Governors for closing Dilcombe Village School? (chapter 22)

13. How did Emma overcome the problem of her long hair when they went back to Dilcombe school in 1940? (chapter 23)

14. Jamie called some German aircraft 'Messy-somethings', can you find out the real name that he meant? (chapter 24)

15. Which two important things did Tom forget to tell the children before they went back to 1940? (chapter 25)

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