View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator often refers to the people within the bed inside the Great Glass Elevator as what?

2. Miss Tibbs, the United States Vice President, is also the former what of the President?

3. Which member of the group congregated in the President's study is "always wanting to blow things up" (42), according to the President?

4. How does the Chief Financial Advisor to President Gilligrass balance the budget?

5. What trait does Mr. Wonka list as the main quality of the "vermicious" creatures?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the Chief of the Army's character used as a means to satirize the United States military?

2. Name one element of the Space Hotel USA that acts as a means of foreshadowing.

3. What method of movement in zero gravity does Mr. Wonka teach to Charlie and his family?

4. Describe one example of political satire within the text.

5. Describe the thing that reveals itself when the elevator doors open inside the Space Hotel USA.

6. How is the lobby of the Space Hotel USA described and what does its qualities symbolize?

7. In what way does Roald Dahl immediately alert the readers to the fact that they are reading a sequel?

8. What information does Mr. Wonka share with the rest of the group about Vermicious Knids?

9. Describe how the chapters concerned with political figures include racially problematic elements.

10. In what way is the theme of courage depicted within Chapter 3, entitled The Link Up?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What is the novel's message concerning the link between mind and body?

Essay Topic 3

Determine Dahl's message regarding the idea that authority should be challenged.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,134 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample