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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 something that the BFG tells Sophie that he can hear?

2. What hint of fruit flavor does Sophie taste in the frobscottle?

3. At the beginning of Chapter 4, what does Sophie think that the Giant has in his legs?

4. What does Sophie say humans call frobscottle?

5. What is the name of the woman who runs the orphanage where Sophie lived?

Short Essay Questions

1. Are there reasons that are acceptable for children to be out of bed in Chapter 1?

2. What does the BFG want Sophie to teach him to make in Chapter 7 and why?

3. What is the Giant wearing in Chapter 4?

4. Why does the Bloodbottler come to the BFG's cave?

5. What do the giants do with the BFG when he comes outside in Chapter 11 to go to Dream Country?

6. What does the Giant say about the Bonecrunching Giant in Chapter 5?

7. What different flavors are the humans that the giants eat?

8. Why does Sophie think the frobscottle is fizzing the wrong way?

9. What type of giant is the BFG?

10. What is a trogglehumper?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sophie thinks that giant nature is repulsive. How does the BFG compare human nature and giant nature? In what ways are the two similar? In what ways is giant nature superior to human nature? Are there ways in which giant nature is inferior to human nature? Which would be superior according to the BFG—human or giant nature? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Sophie believes that the BFG captures her to eat her. What is Sophie’s perception of the BFG when she first meets him, and how does her view of him change and develop throughout the novel?

Essay Topic 3

There are several places in the novel where Dahl uses suspense. How does Dahl use suspense throughout the novel, and how does the use of suspense affect readers and the pace of the story?

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