James and the Giant Peach
Chapter 1:
1. How did the parents die?
2. What happened to the little boy’s house?
3. What is the name of the little boy? (A) _________________________________________
4. Who did A have to go live with? (B)__________________ (C) _______________________
5. Describe A and C.
Chapter 2:
6. For how many years has James been living with his aunts?
7. Describe Aunt Sponge.
8. Describe Aunt Spiker.
9. Why was James crying?
10. Where did James hide?
Chapter 3:
11. Why was James too scared to move?
12. What color was the bag the old man took out?
13. What was inside the bag?
14. What where the tiny green things that looked like little stones or crystals?
Chapter 4:
15. What did the old man say to pour into the bag?
16. What do you think the man is trying to do with the drink?
17. James wasn’t allowed to share this with?
Chapter 5:
18. When James was running, where was he headed to?
19. Who shouted in the car?
20. Who came next? (A)
21. Why did A come?
22. What did Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spike tell James to do?
Chapter 6:
23. How did James react when Aunt Spiker showed him the peach?
24. How did she react?
25. What did Aunt Sponge suggest to do with the peach?
26. What happened to the peach?
27. At first, did Aunt Sponge believe the peach was growing?
Chapter 7:
28. When the peach grew, what did it look like?
29. What did Aunt Spiker tell James to get away from?
30. How did the aunts threat James?
31. How tall did the peach grow?
32. What did the aunts want to do with the peach?
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Chapter 8:
33. What was the news?
34. Who called the carpenters?
35. What did the carpenters build?
36. Who was arguing?
37. Who yelled?
38. Why did they build a fence?
39. What landed on the hills? (A)
40. What came out of A?
41. Who was in a room?
42. In the story, do you think that Aunt Sponge is nice? Circle: Yes or No
43. Who was too busy to make food?
44. Did James like to stay in his room? Circle: Yes or No
Chapter 9:
45. What did James see when he was on top of the peach?
46. What did the grass look like in the moon light?
47. How could he tell he was excited?
48. What made the grass sparkle?
49. What did he say the grass felt like?
Chapter 10:
50. What did the tunnel smell of?
51. What did James run into?
52. What was cut into the face of the peach? (A)
53. What did James do with A?
54. What did James want to do when he looked back?
Chapter 11:
55. How many large insects are there?
56. What were they?
57. How many eyes were fixed on James?
58. Who told James not to be frightened? (A)
59. Why did A tell James not to be frightened?
Chapter 12:
60. What made the Centipede mad?
61. What did James tell the Centipede?
62. What also happened to the lady bug?
63. What did the Centipede, Earthworm, and the Ladybug swallowed?
64. What was the Centipede pulling?
Chapter 13
65. Where was the first bed made?
66. Why did it take James 2 hours to untie the Centipede’s boots?
67. Who was causing the light? (A)
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68. How long was A?
69. Is a glow-worm actually a worm? Circle: Yes or No
Chapter 14:
70. What was their plan for the peach?
71. Was the ladybug kind? Circle: Yes or No
72. How were they going to move the peach?
73. What did the centipede do?
74. Did the earthworm like the idea?
Chapter 15:
75. What was the noise they heard?
76. Who did it head towards?
Chapter 16:
77. In what condition was the peach in this chapter?
78. What did the peach crash into?
79. What do you think “suspended” means in page 46?
80. How did the peach sink?
81. Why did it come back up to the surface?
Chapter 17:
82. Where did James say they might be at?
83. What did the Centipede want before going outside?
84. Where did they end up?
Chapter 18:
85. Where did the peach go?
86. Who brought sense to everyone?
87. Who was saying, “What absolute nonsense?”
88. Who had an idea about food? (A)
89. Who thought A’s idea was crazy?
Chapter 19:
90. What was gliding through the water?
91. What did one of the sharks do?
92. How many sharks are there?
93. How many insects are on the peach?
94. Who did the insects rely on?
Chapter 20:
95. What is James’ plan?
96. What did James need?
97. Who could make string?
98. Where was the silk worm?
99. Did Earthworm agree? Circle: Yes or No
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Chapter 21:
100. What made all the insects scared?
101. James told the insects to stay still. Circle: True or False
Chapter 22:
102. Who was in sight?
103. Who did James tell to keep still?
104. Who was with the grasshopper?
105. What was enormous tug?
106. How many seagulls were there?
Chapter 23:
107. Who grabbed the centipede by the waist?
108. Did the sharks do much damage? Circle: Yes or No
109. Who checked if the peach was ok?
110. What was the name of the ship that saw the giant peach?
111. The first officer said to call whom?
Chapter 24:
112. Where is the peach?
113. What was the Grasshopper going to do?
114. What was he using to play?
115. Was James on the ship? Circle: Yes or No
116. Did they like Grasshopper’s music? Circle: Yes or No
Chapter 25:
117. What were they doing for the farmers?
118. What are farmers pleased to have?
119. What does Miss Spider do?
120. What was the Centipede doing?
121. How many songs did he sing?
Chapter 26:
122. What did Centepede fall into?
123. Did James go back for Centepede? Circle: Yes
124. What ocean did Centepede fall in?
No
Chapter 27:
125. What kind of moon came up in the sky?
126. What did James see? (A)
127. What was A releasing onto the Earth? (B)
128. Why was A releasing B onto the Earth?
129. Was the Centipede right about the cloud man being deaf? Circle: Yes No
Chapter 28:
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130. Describe the moon.
131. When Ladybug shouted, everybody looked at ______________________________.
132. What did the cloudman do to the enourmous arch?
Chapter 29:
133. Why was the Centipede forced to sit very stiff?
134. What does paint remind Miss Spider of? (A)
135. What happened to A?
136. What did the Ladybug say to get the paint of the Centipede?
137. Who do you think was shouting?
Chapter 30:
138. Who was the voice they heard?
139. What appeared in the sky?
140. What was pouring out of the black cloud?
141. Did the mass of water take long for it to go away?
Chapter 31:
142. What was going faster and faster?
143. Did a snow machine make a blizzard? Circle: Yes No
144. What happened an hour later?
145. What did the travelers see?
146. Who wished day would come?
Chapter 32:
147. Who is Centipede?
148. What is England?
149. How are they going to get down to Earth?
150. Can Centipede bite once in a while?
151. What does the edge of the peach look like?
Chapter 33:
152. What did Manhattan think the big ball was? (A)
153. When the people saw the big A, where did they think it came from?
154. When they saw A what did they think the A was going to do?
155. How many states did they alarm?
Chapter 34:
156. Why do they want to sink?
157. Why did they need to bite a string?
158. Did the plane crash on something?
159. Did the seagulls want to eat the peach?
160. Why did they want to sink while they are asking for help?
Chapter 35:
161. Why did people pray?
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162. How was it going to end?
163. Did everybody die yet?
164. Why don’t the people run away?
165. Did the peach hit something?
Chapter 36:
166. How does the top of the tallest skyscraper look like?
167. What got stuck at the top of the Empire State Building?
Chapter 37:
168. How many firemen came?
169. How many policemen came?
170. How many miles did the insects fly to go to New York?
171. Who came out of the peach first?
172. Who came next?
Chapter 38:
173. Where were they all escorted?
174. Why did the children run to James?
Chapter 39:
175. What lovely color was the earthworms skin?
176. Both Miss Spider and Silkworm have been taught to make nylon thread instead of what?
177. The old green grasshopper became member of what?