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Chapters 1-6

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How did James' parents die?

a)

They were in a train accident

b)

They died of an illness

c)

They were eaten by a Rhinoceros

d)

They died in a fire

2.

How does James feel about living with his aunts?

a)

Miserable

b)

Compassionate

c)

Enraged

d)

Content

3.

What happens to the green crystals that the old man gives James in James and the Giant Peach by Ronald Dahl?

a)

He drops them and they sink into the ground.

b)

They get washed away in some rainwater.

c)

James swallows them with water and hairs like the old man said.

d)

He hides them in his pockets from his aunts.

4.

Who does James meet in the clump of laurel bushes?

a)

Aunt Sponge

b)

Aunt Spiker

c)

A peach

d)

The old man

5.
How do you describe James' aunts?
a)
mean and selfish
b)
friendly and kind
c)
generous
6.
What place did James really want to go to but his aunts won't let him?
a)
a hill
b)
a river
c)
a beach
7.

What type of figurative language is this?


A brilliant greenish light as bright as the brightest electric bulb was shining out of its tail and lighting up the whole room.

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Simile

c)

Metaphor

d)

Alliteration

e)

Personification

8.

What type of figurative language is this?


The crowds of people who were climbing up the hill suddenly caught sight of the peach, a terrible monster, plunging down upon them.

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Simile

c)

Metaphor

d)

Alliteration

e)

Personification

9.

What type of figurative language is this?


It hit the water with a colossal splash and sank like a stone.

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Simile

c)

Metaphor

d)

Alliteration

e)

Personification

10.

What type of figurative language is this?


Our Centipede, who has a pair of jaws as sharp as razors, is up there on top of the peach nibbling away at that stem.

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Simile

c)

Metaphor

d)

Alliteration

e)

Personification

11.
Peculiar means....
a)
Weird or odd
b)
funny
c)
sad
d)
mad
12.
Which of these is the best description of Aunt Sponge's physical appearance?
a)
short and fat
b)
mean
c)
tall and bony
d)
old
13.
Which of these is the best description of Aunt Spiker's physical appearance?
a)
short and fat
b)
mean
c)
tall and bony
d)
old
14.
What does ramshackle mean?
a)
carelessly constructed; ready to collapse
b)
with longing or regret
c)
greatly exceeding the common size
d)
strange or odd; unusual
15.
Which word is another word for eyeglasses?
a)
spectacles
b)
nuisance
c)
hobbled
d)
brute
16.
When you do something wistfully, how is it done?
a)
carelessly constructed; ready to collapse
b)
with longing or regret
c)
strange or odd;unusual
d)
greatly exceeding the common size
17.
What does beckoning mean?
a)
insensitive person
b)
having a prickly and stiff texture
c)
moving or acting energetically or with speed
d)
signaling or summoning, as by nodding or waving