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Why does Mr Wormwood get so angry at Matilda getting the arithmetic right?
Mr Wormwood doesn't like to feel Matilda is good at anything; he likes even less when she's better at something than he himself is. Mr Wormwood is confident that he's superior to almost everyone around him, and he gets angry when Matilda challenges that feeling.
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Why is Matilda so surprising to Miss Honey?
Matilda knows much more than the other students about school subjects—specifically, about mathematics and reading. Matilda can read books commonly read by high school students and adults. She can do multiplication in her head more quickly and skillfully than Miss Honey herself can....
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