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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. How many Great Glass Elevator inhabitants are there in total?
2. Who is NOT lying in bed within the glass elevator at the start of the novel?
3. Who travels inside the ship called the Commuter Capsule?
4. What does Mr. Wonka name as a necessary component of any being that wants to successfully enter the earth's atmosphere?
5. In what manner does Mr. Wonka teach the elevator's other inhabitants how to move around the elevator without gravity?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Mr. Wonka's propensity for thwarting authority within the scene inside the Space Hotel USA?
2. Give an example of Dahl's use of a simile within Chapter 2.
3. What information about the President is revealed within the song Miss Tibbs sings, entitled The Nurse's Song?
4. In what way is the theme of American violence demonstrated within the scene inside the Space Hotel USA?
5. What elements of the first chapter suggest that Dahl knew that some readers of the novel would not have read its prequel?
6. What information does Mr. Wonka share with the rest of the group about Vermicious Knids?
7. Who is piloting the object termed the Commuter Capsule?
8. How many Vermicious Knids does Mr. Wonka say exist in the universe?
9. Discuss the characteristics and resulting symbolism of the elevator buttons.
10. What types of higher echelon people are said to be trying to book the Space Hotel USA?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Look carefully at the passages of the novel that portray the close relationship between danger and excitement. What is Dahl's purpose for discussing at length the nature of the connection between these two elements of the human condition?
Essay Topic 2
Sensory details are used frequently by Dahl in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used by Dahl serve Dahl’s creation of vivid characters.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the novel’s use of political satire within its scenes involving the Space Hotel USA.
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