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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. Which inhabitant of the Great Glass Elevator takes the greatest exception to traveling within the elevator?
2. Who prevents Mr. Wonka from pushing the required elevator button?
3. Charlie tells his grandparents that he feels what emotion toward Mr. Wonka?
4. When Charlie worries about what will happen if he and the others are caught trespassing in the Space Hotel, what does he name as a possible sentence?
5. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is a sequel to what novel?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Dahl employ foreshadowing within the scene inside the Space Hotel USA?
2. Who is piloting the object termed the Commuter Capsule?
3. What method of movement in zero gravity does Mr. Wonka teach to Charlie and his family?
4. What elements of the first chapter suggest that Dahl knew that some readers of the novel would not have read its prequel?
5. Discuss the characteristics and resulting symbolism of the elevator buttons.
6. Give an example of Dahl's use of a simile within Chapter 2.
7. For what reason is the Space Hotel USA unoccupied when the Great Glass Elevator arrives?
8. What information does Mr. Wonka share with the rest of the group about Vermicious Knids?
9. How is Mr. Wonka's propensity for thwarting authority within the scene inside the Space Hotel USA?
10. Who sings a song about the President in Chapter 8 and for what reason?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the novel's message concerning the link between mind and body?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Determine Dahl's message regarding the idea that authority should be challenged.
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