My New Year’s Resolution for 2021 is to read more poetry. So, this new series of quizzes, will take a poem by a famous poet on their birthday and ask you to fill in the missing words. The poem for this quiz is the wonderful tale of The Pig by the wonderful Roald Dahl whose birthday is on September 13th.
We’ve also just turned our best quizzes into a book that you can keep! Take our quizzes home, or purchase it as a gift for a friend.
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In England once there lived a big A wonderfully clever pig. To everybody it was plain That Piggy had a — brain.
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massive
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giant
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He worked out sums inside his head, There was no book he hadn’t read. He knew what made an airplane fly, He knew how — worked and why.
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engines
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buses
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He knew all this, but in the end One question drove him round the bend: He — couldn’t puzzle out What LIFE was really all about.
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simply
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really
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What was the reason for his birth? Why was he placed upon this earth? His giant brain went round and round. Alas, no — could be found.
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answer
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reason
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Till suddenly one wondrous night. All in a flash he saw the light. He jumped up like a — dancer And yelled, “By gum, I’ve got the answer!”
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ballet
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ballroom
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“They want my bacon slice by slice “To sell at a tremendous price! “They want my tender — chops “To put in all the butcher’s shops!
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juicy
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meaty
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“They want my pork to make a roast “And that’s the — cost the most! “They want my sausages in strings! “They even want my chitterlings!
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part’ll
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bit’ll
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“The butcher’s shop! The — knife! “That is the reason for my life!”
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carving
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butcher’s
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Such thoughts as these are not designed To give a pig — peace of mind.
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great
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much
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Next morning, in comes Farmer Bland, A pail of pigswill in his hand, And piggy with a — roar, Bashes the farmer to the floor…
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mighty
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shrieking
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Now comes the rather — bit So let’s not make too much of it, Except that you must understand That Piggy did eat Farmer Bland,
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grizzly
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gruesome
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He ate him up from head to toe, — the pieces nice and slow. It took an hour to reach the feet, Because there was so much to eat,
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Chewing
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Munching
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And when he —, Pig, of course, Felt absolutely no remorse.
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finished
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concluded
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Slowly he scratched his brainy head And with a little smile he said, “I had a fairly powerful hunch “That he might — me for his lunch.
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have
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eat
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“And so, because I feared the worst, “I thought I’d better — him first.”
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eat
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have
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