The BFG Comprehension Quiz

How is the BFG different from other Giants?

• He is bigger than the other giants.

• He likes to fight.

• He does not eat children

• He sleeps during the day and travels at night.

Where does the BFG live?

• Under a rock

• In a cave

• In a castle

• On top of a mountain

How does the BFG capture dreams?

• He writes them down and puts them in jars.

• He steals them from children's bedrooms.

• He puts them on trial.

• He catches them with a net in Dream Country.

What does Sophie see the BFG do the very first time she sees him?

• Waves a butterfly net around.

• Take items from a house.

• Blows a trumpet through the window.

• Eats a child.

Choose the best word to describe the BFG.

• Well-intentioned and friendly.

• Insensitive and loud.

• Unintelligent and slow moving.

• Cowardly and shy.

What does the BFG eat and drink?

• soda and snozzcumbers

• snozzcumbers and frobscottle

• steak and snozzcumbers

• children and frobscottle

What is one way that the BFG does NOT capture dreams?

• He goes to Dream Country.

• He uses a butterfly net.

• He listens for them and puts them in jars.

• He blows nightmares into children's dreams at night.

What is a problem in the story?

• The frobscottle bubbles go downward.

• The BFG doesn't eat children.

• Sophie accidentally saw the BFG in her room.

• The BFG eats snozzcumbers.

The BFG is modest about the fact that he doesn't eat children. What does modest mean?

• boasting

• not bragging

• happy

• modeling

Sophie was dazed when she was spit out by the Bloodbottler. What is dazed?

• confused

• counting

• hurt badly

• soggy