Sunday Potter Quiz: Vanishing Glass

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Chapter Two: The Vanishing Glass

1. How much time had passed from the Dursleys finding Harry on their doorstep, and the present day?
2. What special day did Harry realize he’d woken up to?
3. What color is Dudley’s hair that made him look, to Harry, like a pig in a wig?
4. True/False: Dudley thought received only thirty-six presents for his birthday, but then is shown a thirty-seventh that slightly pacifies him.
5. What did Mrs. Figg, their old neighbor who usually baby-sat Harry, do that allowed Harry to come to the zoo with the Dursleys?
6. Mr. Dursley’s complaints while driving reminded Harry of a dream he had had about what?
7. At the zoo restaurant, Dudley had a tantrum because his knickerbocker glory lacked enough what on top?
8. What kind of snake does Harry begin to talk to in the reptile house?
9. True/False: Dudley punched Harry while trying to look at the snake, causing him to make the glass of the cage vanish, and then reappear after Dudley had fallen in and the snake escaped.
10. What is the only thing Harry can remember seeing when he thinks of the time his parents died?

For Your Reflection: The word ‘glass’ is an archaic English word for ‘mirror’. How does Harry’s misadventure with the ‘glass’ and snake at the story’s beginning parallel or reflect, inversely, his trial in front of the mirror at the story’s finish?

Answers: 1. (Nearly) 10 years( 18); 2. Dudley’s birthday (19); 3. Blonde (21); 4. True (21); 5. Broke her leg (22); 6. A flying motorcycle (25); 7. Ice cream (26); 8. A boa constrictor (28); 9. False: he only made the glass disappear (28); 10. A blinding flash of green light (29).