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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 does the narrator describe Mr. Wonka's attempts to outrun the Vermicious Knid following the Great Glass Elevator?
2. What sounds can the President hear as the hotel staff are being eaten?
3. Willy Wonka tells Charlie that Charlie's upcoming comprehensive tour of the factory will take what amount of time?
4. What is the setting depicted at the start of Chapter 9, entitled Gobbled Up?
5. Whom does the President ask when he wants to know what Martians eat?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the effect of Wonka-Vite on the three old ones?
2. In what way is Mr. Wonka portrayed as being skillful at lying?
3. How does the scene depicting the Vermicious Knid's injury portray the theme of comeuppance?
4. What instructions does Mr. Wonka issue to the Great Glass Elevator's inhabitants when they are about to crash through the roof of the chocolate factory?
5. What is Roald Dahl's message concerning televsion audiences within the text?
6. Discuss the message sent within the song that Miss Tibbs sings to the President entitled "The Nurse's Song" (62).
7. When the elevator's inhabitants have a chance to save the 150 people in the Commuter Capsule, how does the split in opinion depict the contrast between positive and negative thinking?
8. In what way is a more tender side of Mr. Wonka's character revealed within Chapter 12, entitled Back to the Chocolate Factory?
9. Name at least three ingredients other than chocolate that are present within Mr. Wonka's creation Wonka-Vite.
10. How is Mr. Wonka shown to be fallible within Chapter 10, entitled Commuter Capsule in Trouble--Knid Attack Number One?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the novel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator from an Existential perspective. What elements of life does it suggest hold the most meaning and why?
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
Analyze the interplay between the resolution of the novel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator and one of the novel's main messages. How does Dahl make connections between these elements and how does their juxtaposition help Dahl get across one main message of the novel?
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