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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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Teacher’s Guide and Answer Key

Teacher’s Guide

A. Summary

1. Book Summary

Quasimodo is a hunchbacked bell ringer at Notre Dame church. He is controlled by Frollo, an evil priest. Frollo loves Esmeralda, a gypsy who entertains people on the streets of Paris. Frollo has Quasimodo kidnap her, and the bell ringer is caught and punished for it. While he is being punished, Esmeralda comes and gives him water. Quasimodo is moved by her kind act.

Esmeralda tells her lover, a soldier named Phoebus, that she loves him very much. However, he doesn’t actually love her. As they are talking, Frollo comes out from hiding and stabs Phoebus in the back. Everyone thinks that Esmeralda did it. She is put on trial and sentenced to hang. As she is about to be hanged on the gallows, Quasimodo suddenly appears and takes her into the church, where she has sanctuary. She is safe as long as she stays in the church.

Inside Notre Dame, Frollo tries to make Esmeralda love him, but she refuses. Quasimodo has to protect her from the priest. When soldiers come to look for Esmeralda, Frollo gets her out of the church. However, he leaves her on her own when she refuses to accept his love. Esmeralda is then caught by soldiers and hanged. When he finds out too late, an angry Quasimodo kills Frollo and then disappears. In the countryside, a strange grave is found with the skeletons of a woman and a man, who seems to have his arm around the woman. Everyone thinks that Quasimodo died of a broken heart beside Esmeralda in her grave.

2. Chapter Summary

► Chapter 1 It is January 6, 1482, in Paris. Today is the Festival of Fools, when the people choose the ugliest man in Paris and make him a special person for the day. They choose a monster- looking hunchback named Quasimodo. Quasimodo is happy to be chosen as someone special.

► Chapter 2 A gypsy woman named Esmeralda is at the festival. She dances and sings for money, and she has a smart goat that can do tricks. Everyone is laughing and cheering when

suddenly appears and takes her away. Before he runs into the church with her, he calls out to the crowd, "Sanctuary!" Sanctuary is a law that protects anyone hiding in the church.

► Chapter 8 Quasimodo takes care of Esmeralda, but she is not happy, knowing that Phoebus doesn’t love her. One night, Frollo tries to make her love him, but she resists. Quasimodo comes in and pulls Frollo away from her. From then on, Quasimodo protects her. Esmeralda cannot leave the church or she will die. Her gypsy friends come to try to rescue her. Quasimodo thinks they want to hang her, so he fights them and hurts many of them.

► Chapter 9 King Louis XI is in Paris and thinks that the people are starting a revolution because of Esmeralda. He orders his soldiers to go to the church to take her and hang her for being a witch. Frollo helps Esmeralda escape when the soldiers come. He tells her that if she will love him, he can save her. She refuses him and tells him that she would rather be hanged. The soldiers catch Esmeralda and take her to the gallows to hang.

► Chapter 10 Frollo is looking down from the tower in Notre Dame. Quasimodo comes and sees Esmeralda’s body on the gallows hanging from a rope. His heart aches badly, and he picks Frollo up and throws him from the tower to his death. Quasimodo is never seen in Paris again after that. Then someone finds a strange grave in the countryside. In it are the skeletons of a man and a woman. The man’s skeleton seems to be holding the woman’s skeleton. Everyone believes that Quasimodo died of a broken heart beside his beloved Esmeralda in that grave.

B. Background and Themes

★ Love: Love can make people do good things as well as bad things.

★ Cruelty: When people get together in large crowds, they can lose their judgment and be very cruel.

★ Loyalty: Though Esmeralda did not love him, Quasimodo loved her and protected her.

★ True beauty: Though Quasimodo was ugly, he had a beautiful heart.

While You Read

(Answers may vary.)

► Chapter 1 A. Preview Questions

1. I think the men on stage are performing an act.
2. I think they are actors.
3. I think it is because he looks strange. B. Review Questions
4. It is called the Festival of Fools.
5. Quasimodo is chosen as the ugliest man.
6. He likes it.

► Chapter 2 A. Preview Questions

1. I think she is a dancer.
2. I think it is part of her show.
3. I think she is dancing to earn money. B. Review Questions
4. They are giving her money for her show.
5. He can count and tell the time and date.
6. He is Claude Frollo, a priest from the church.

► Chapter 3 A. Preview Questions

1. Esmeralda is being kidnapped.
2. I think he is a soldier.
3. I think he will rescue Esmeralda from the kidnapper.

B. Review Questions

1. Someone jumps out of the darkness and grabs her.
2. Phoebus and his group of soldiers come to help her.
3. Quasimodo tries to kidnap her.

► Chapter 4 A. Preview Questions

1. I think Quasimodo is being punished for kidnapping Esmeralda.
2. Yes, I think he is.
3. I think it will continue for a long time. B. Review Questions
4. The same people who cheered him at the festival are cheering his punishment.
5. The only thing he can say is, “Drink!”
6. He knows that he will always love her.

► Chapter 5 A. Preview Questions

1. I think they are talking about love.
2. I think he is jealous that Phoebus and Esmeralda are together.
3. I think he is telling her that he loves her. B. Review Questions
4. She wants to marry him.
5. He stabs Phoebus in the back.
6. They think that Esmeralda stabbed him.

► Chapter 6 A. Preview Questions

1. I think they are judges.

► Chapter 9 A. Preview Questions

1. I think he is on the balcony of the church.
2. I think he is looking at the crowd in front of the church.
3. I think he is very worried. B. Review Questions
4. The king is in Paris this night.
5. He wants her to be hanged.
6. She will die.

► Chapter 10 A. Preview Questions

1. I think they are at the top of the church.
2. I think he is very angry.
3. I think he is going to kill Frollo and then kill himself. B. Review Questions
4. He is looking at the lifeless body of Esmeralda on the gallows.
5. He throws Frollo from the tower of Notre Dame.
6. The skeletons of a man and a woman are in it.

Mini Quiz a. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning. → If you see a red sky at sunrise, it will likely rain. b. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. → You cannot help someone who does not want to be helped. c. The course of true love never did run smooth. → True love comes with a lot of pain and difficulties.

After You Read

(Answers may vary.)

► Pattern Practice

4. A: How do you like art class? B: I cannot stand it. It’s so boring.
5. A: Do you have a toothache? B: Yes, and it’s really painful. I cannot stand it anymore.

► Challenge

1. Esmeralda is a gypsy who sings and dances to make money.
2. Quasimodo kidnaps Esmeralda after the festival.
3. Esmeralda is on trial for stabbing Phoebus and for being a witch.
4. Quasimodo rescues Esmeralda from the gallows.

Reading Comprehension

► Beginning: Chapters 1– A.

1. F 2. T 3. F 4. T 5. T B.
2. Esmeralda
3. Frollo
4. Quasimodo
5. Phoebus C.
6. c 2. d 3. c 4. a 5. c 6. b

► Middle: Chapters 5– A.

1. T 2. F 3. T 4. F 5. T B. (Answers may vary.)
2. He is a priest. 2. He is watching someone/something.
3. He feels jealous. 4. He stabs Phoebus in the back. C.
4. c 2. a 3. c 4. d 5. a 6. b

► End: Chapters 7– A.

1. F 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. T B. d → c → a → b C.
2. c 2. a 3. d 4. b 5. d 6. a

Think and Write

Causes: 1. Frollo controls Quasimodo.

2. Frollo wants Esmeralda. Event 1: Quasimodo kidnaps Esmeralda. Consequence: Quasimodo is punished.

Causes: 1. Frollo stabs Phoebus.

2. People think Esmeralda is a witch. Event 2: Esmeralda is sent to the gallows. Consequence: Quasimodo goes to rescue Esmeralda.

Vocabulary Review

1. Djali is a very smart goat.
2. Quasimodo is the ugliest man in Paris.
3. Frollo has Quasimodo kidnap Esmeralda.
4. The people are very cruel to the hunchback.
5. Then he takes a drink of water from Esmeralda.
6. Phoebus is the captain of the king’s soldiers.
7. Esmeralda is safe under the law of sanctuary.
8. Many gypsies try to break down the doors of Notre Dame.
9. Esmeralda hides from the soldiers who are looking for her.
10. Quasimodo throws Frollo from the tower of Notre Dame.