Set 1a
What was Mr. Salt’s reaction when Veruca
wanted a trained squirrel?
a. He tried to buy one from Mr. Wonka
b. He told her no, she could not have one
c. He went in the nut room and tried to grab
onefor her
d. He told her to go to Lincoln’s house and
get one from the back yard.
After Mike gets shrunk by being sent by
television, what does Mike Teavee’s dad
say about watching television?
a. “Never Again!…I’ve had enough of television!”
b. “We’ll have to get a smaller set!”
c. “Well, that’s the only way we can see the boy!”
d. “You can watch it all you want, son…”
Why didn’t Mr. Wonka want to give his
factory to an adult?
a. because he felt he couldn’t trust an adult to do
things the way he wanted them to be done
b. because an adult would get too old too fast
and have to give the factory to someone else
c. because an adult wouldn’t want his factory
d. because children would have more fun
running the factory
How many adult visitors came to the
factory in the movie?
a. 9
b. 14
c. 5
d. 6
“This is my private yacht,” cried Mr.
Wonka, “I made her by hollowing out an
enormous boiled sweet!” What part of
speech is the word ‘sweet’ in this context?
a. adjective
b. adverb
c. noun
d. preposition
Which of the following is an accurate
contrast between the book and the movie?
a. In both the book and the movie the Oompa
Loompas sing songs
b. In the book, Charlie’s dad lives with his family, but
in the movie Charlie’s dad is deceased.
c. In both the book and the movie Mike Teavee
pretends to shoot Mr. Wonka in the stomach
d. In the book Mr. Wonka has them sign a contract,
but in the Movie there was no contract.
Set 1b
What color is the boat in the book?
a. orange
b. green
c. pink
d. brown
What does Mr. Wonka say Butterscotch
does to the Oompa Loompas?
a. it makes them puke
b. it makes them sneeze
c. It makes them tiddly
d. it makes them grow hair
“I haven't the foggiest idea,” said Mr.
Wonka. What is the root word of foggiest?
a. foggi
b. fogg
c. fogge
d. foggy
Why would Mr. Wonka say, “a poached egg
isn’t a poached egg unless it’s been stolen
from the woods in the dead of night!”
a. because that’s really how you get poached eggs
b. because most poached eggs are really just
chicken’s eggs (not real poached eggs) since forest
poaches protect their eggs fiercely and you have to
steal them in the dark.
c. just because he is weird; it really makes no sense
d. because poached means to both to cook in water
and to steal or unlawfully hunt animals, usually
under the cover of darkness
Where would “Oompa Loompas have long
hair and beards” fit in this diagram?
book
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section
section
section
1
2
3
a. section 1
b. section 2
c. section 3
d. it does not belong in this diagram
When Mr. Wonka tells Mike “I’m a little
deaf in my left ear…I don’t hear everything
you say,” after Mike yells at him, this is an
example of what?
a. hyperbole
b. sarcasm
c. irony
d. simile
Set 2a
What is the name of the author of Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory?
a. Richard Jamison
b. Ronald Doll
c. Roald Dahl
d. Lincoln Dover
What is the root word of mumbling?
a. mumbl
b. mumble
c. mumbel
d. mumbll
What is most likely Roald Dahl’s purpose in
having Veruca’s parents go down the garbage
shoot (as well as Veruca)?
a. to show that the factory was a dangerous place,
even for adults
b. to show that Mr. Wonka did not like them either
c. to show that nobody should be mean to squirrles
d. to show that parents are also to blame when
children are spoiled and rude.
When Mr. Wonka says he has “square
candies that look round,” what part of
speech is the word ‘round?’
a. adjective describing the candy
b. preposition telling where the candies look
c. noun renaming the candies
d. article telling which candies he has
Which of the following is a subplot in the
movie but not in the book?
a. Violet Beauregarde is trying to keep her best friend
from ever winning the world record for chewing one
piece of gum the longest.
b. the Oompa Loompas get saved from the
snozzwangers when Mr. Wonka brings them to his
factory.
c. Mr. Wonka has a secret plan to leave his factory to one
of the children on the tour
d. a man posing as Slugworth tries to get the children to
give him an everlasting gobstopper
Set 2b
What did Mr. Wonka do when Grandma
Josephine, Grandpa George and Grandma
Georgina refused to go with him back to the
factory?
a. He said, “OK” and left without them
b. He let Charlie and Grandpa Joe convince them to
change their minds
c. He rolled them out of bed and made them come
anyway
d. He pushed the bed--with them in it--into the
elevator and took them back to the factory
Who is going to play Willy Wonka in the
new version of the movie?
a. Gene Wilder
b. Johnny Depp
c. River Phoenix
d. Lincoln Dover
Which order of events is correct
according to the book?
a. 1. Augustus goes up the pipe, 2.Veruca goes down the
chute, 3. Violet turns into a blueberry, and 4. Mike shrinks.
b. 1. Agusutus goes up the pipe, 2. Violet turns into a
blueberry, 3. Vercua goes down the chute, and 4. mike
shrinks
c. 1. Augustus goes up the pipe, 2. Violet turns into a
blueberry, 3. Mike shrinks, and 4. Veruca goes
down the chute.
What must Veruca’s head have sounded
like when the squirrel taped on it?
a. hard
b. hollow
c. soild
d. a banjo
Where would “squirrels shelling nuts” fit in
this diagram?
book
book and movie Movie
section
section
section
1
2
3
a. section 1
b. section 2
c. section 3
d. it does not belong in this diagram
“They’re drunk as lords,” said Mr. Wonka (referring
to the Oompa Loompas in the Butterscotch and
Buttergin room). Who does Lords refer to in the
phrase, Drunk as Lords?
a. landlords because they get drunk every time people pay them
rent.
b. the gods of the Baccurian religious sect in ancient Greece
c. wealthy British government officials, who were seen as goodfor-nothing, loud drunks in earlier times.
d. landowners in the 13th century who raised grapes and were
always drunk on wine
Set 3a
Where does Mr. Wonka tell the Ooompa
Loompas to take Violet?
a. the hospital
b. the juicing room
c. the blueberry room
d. Morgan Nevill’s room
What’s different about Mike Teavee after
he is sent by television?
a. he is bald
b. he is purple
c. he is tiny
d. he is less obnoxious
How did Charlie get a candy bar with a
golden ticket?
a. he bought it with money he found on the
ground
b. he found the ticket on the ground
c. He stole it
d. Lincoln gave it to him
Why are there trucks lined up outside of
the factory as the children are leaving?
a. to deliver hair cream and snozberries
b. to carry off the trash
c. to deliver more Oompa Loompas
d. to give each child a lifetime supply of
candy
Which of the following happened in the
movie but not in the book?
a. Mike Teavee get shrunk
b. Augustus Gloop goes up the pipe in the
chocolate river
c. Charlie floats to a fan in the fizzy lifting drink
room
d. Veruca goes down a garbage chute
In the book, the computer built to detect
golden tickets when bezerk and attacked a
woman wearing gold jewelry. How did it
malfunction in the movie?
a. it made rude comments to the scientist
b. it did the exact same thing as in the book
c. it blew up
d. it barked like a dog
Set 3b
What is Charlie’s last name?
a. Bucket
b. Smith
c. Gloop
d. Dover
At the beginning of the book, where does
Charlie’s dad work?
a. in the Chocolate Factory
b. in a nut processing plant
c. in a toothpaste factory
d. at Goldsmith Elementary School
How many golden tickets were there?
a. 3
b. 5
c. 1
d. 200
When does the gum from the great gum
machine always go wrong?
a. during the main course
b. during the salad
c. during the fruit plate
d. during the dessert
At the end of the book, why did the glass
elevator have to start going so fast?
a.
b.
c.
d.
So it could break through the roof of the factory
So it would scare Charlie and Grandpa Joe
So that the ride would be more fun
It didn’t go fast
Where would “the guests get to lick the
wallpaper” fit in this diagram?
book
book and movie Movie
section
section
section
1
2
3
a. section 1
b. section 2
c. section 3
d. it does not belong in this diagram
Bonus Set
In the book, how many guests (total) were
let into the factory on the golden ticket
tour?
a. five
b. ten
c. fourteen
d. fifteen
How does Mr. Wonka address Mrs. Salt
when she says he is lying about the
square candies that look round?
a. “My dear old lady…”
b. “Madam…”
c. “My dear old fish…”
d. “My dear Salt…”
What can you do if you take vitamin
Wonka?
a. float until you burp yourself down
b. play the piano with your toes
c. lift a horse with one hand
d. run a marathon in 3 minutes
What candy company currently holds the
rights to the Wonka brand name?
a. M&M / Mars
b. Hershey’s
c. Nestle
d. Russell Stover
In the book, why was the woman who tried
to pass off a fake golden ticked named
Charlotte Russe?
a. there is no real reason; it is just a name
b. there once was a famous crook named
Charlotte Russe
c. the word Charlatan means “imposter” and the
word ruse means “a joke that fools people”
d. she was a Russian immigrant living in
Charlotte, North Carolina
Based on our discusions, what is one probable
reason that the Oopa Loompas looked different
in the movie than desribed in the book?
a. their costumes would have been too hard to make
b. the book was written at a time when having long hair
and a shaggy beard looked shocking, but in the 1971
movie they would have just looked like short hippies
c. they looked the same in the book and the movie
d. the characters were based on a real-world tribe of
short, hairy pigmies living in Papua New Guinea, and,
in 1971, it would have been offensive to them to
show Oompa Loompas that way in the movies.