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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is NOT an element of the narrator's description of the day on which Mr. Wonka opens his factory for a tour?
2. What does Mr. Wonka call the "new kind of soft, minty sugar" (66) that he tells his visitors he has just invented?
3. How many Oompa-Loompas join together to sing about Violet's demise?
4. What color is Mr. Wonka's beard?
5. Mr. Wonka tells his visitors that they should expect to hear what noise quite often during the tour?
Short Essay Questions
1. What method does Mr. Wonka consistently use when he does not want to answer a question from the touring group?
2. In what way does Augustus's father demonstrate a decided lack of altruism within the scene involving the chocolate river?
3. In what way does Mr. Wonka's rudeness to the children's parents accelerate throughout the tour?
4. Provide a piece of evidence for the conclusion that Mr. Wonka is more like the children in the touring group than he is like their parents.
5. What simile does Roald Dahl use in order to demonstrate the lithe and quick nature of Mr. Wonka's movements?
6. How does Violet come to swell up and to turn purple?
7. How does the narrator describe Mr. Wonka's eyes and face?
8. In what ways is Charlie different from his fellow golden ticket finders?
9. What action does Veruca take in the Nut Room that results in her being attacked by squirrels?
10. Where does Mr. Wonka say that all of his most important factory rooms are located?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the theme of cruelty function within the novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and what are Dahl’s messages regarding this theme?
Essay Topic 2
Explicate the theme of family bonds within Roald Dahl's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. What is the author's message regarding family bonds and how do you know?
Essay Topic 3
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Roald Dahl's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
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