Speech and Drama - Grade 8

When was Roald Dahl born?

• 1921

• 1916

• 1950

• 1936

Select the book that was written as a tribute to Roald Dahl’s mother?

• James and the Giant Peach

• Fantastic Mr Fox

• The witches

• The BFG

In the 1930s, Dahl attended Repton School in Derbyshire, this school was best known for...?

• Arts and Literature

• Music

• English Language Arts

• Social studies

Upon completion of the Newfoundland trip, in which company did Dahl take a job?

• Business corporation

• Charitable Company

• Theatre company

• Petroleum company

Where was Roald Dahl sent in September 1940?

• Desert in Egypt

• Nairobi

• Iraq

• South Wales

In which book does Dahl share the experience and glory of his first flight he encountered?

• Matilda

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

• George's Marvellous Medicine

• The Witches

What is the Walt Disney company published one of Roald Dahl’s books in 1943, the book was a success but the movie was never made. What is the book?

• The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

• The Magic Finger

• The Gremlins

• Esio Trot

What were Roald Dahl’s early stories mainly about?

• Tragedy

• Women

• Humour

• Flying and wartime

Select Roal Dahl’s first book for children?

• Where the Wild Things Are

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

• James and the Giant Peach

• Matilda

Name an invention of Roal Dahl’s which he made along with two friends that was successfully used on nearly three thousand children?

• A valve to drain fluid

• A stem

• Oxygen mask

• Scalpel