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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl

Study Guide

Summary
- Plot Overview
Characters
Main Ideas
- Themes
- Motifs
- Symbols
- Key Facts
Quotes
- Important Quotations Explained
Further Study
- Context
- Full Book Quiz
- Study Questions
- Suggestions for Further Reading
Writing Help

Further Study

Full Book Quiz

Further Study Full Book Quiz

1. How many people are in the Bucket family?

Three
One
Seven
Nine

2. How beds are there in the Bucket household?

Three
One
Seven
Nine

3. What does Mr. Wonka urge the Indian Prince Pondicherry to do with his chocolate palace?

Sleep on it
Forget about it
Live in it
Eat it quickly

4. What forces Mr. Wonka to shut down his factory and fire all the workers?

Spies begin stealing all his secret recipes
Workers begin fighting with one another
A union strike
Greed

5. What is strange about Mr. Wonka’s factory when it reopens?

People are scared of the chocolate
The chocolate is better than it was before
No one ever eats the chocolate produced there
No one is ever seen entering or exiting the factory

6. How does Grandpa Joe’s react to Mr. Wonka’s announcement about the golden tickets?

Grandpa Joe thinks Mr. Wonka is crazy
Grandpa Joe thinks Mr. Wonka is mean-spirited
Grandpa Joe thinks Mr. Wonka is a genius
Grandpa Joe is not sure what to think

7. Why does Mrs. Gloop think Augustus eats as much as he does?

Because he is smarter than most children
Because he needs the nourishment
Because he is bored
Because he is angry at her

8. What kind of factory does Mr. Salt, Veruca’s father, own?

Chocolate factory
Candy factory
Gum factory
Peanut factory

9. What does Charlie get every year for his birthday?

One chocolate bar
Some cabbage soup
Three baseball cards
A partridge in a pear tree

10. What does Charlie find under the wrapper of his birthday present?

A chocolate bar
Whip cream
A golden ticket
Nothing

11. Which of the five golden ticket holders is the first to be removed from the group?

Augustus
Veruca
Charlie
Mike

12. How does Charlie determine that the dollar bill lying on the street does not belong to someone else?

It is buried in the snow
No one is looking for it
There are no people anywhere in sight
All of the above

13. When Charlie gets the change from his dollar bill, what does he do?

He puts it all in his pocket to give to his mother
He puts half in his pocket for his mother and half in his bag for himself
He buys another chocolate bar and puts the rest away for his mother
He spends the rest on more chocolate

14. What is Charlie’s reaction to the surprise under the second candy wrapper?

He is indifferent
He is gripped with excitement
He does not understand
He is afraid

15. Which of the following is not an offer Charlie receives for his golden ticket?

Fifty dollars
Five thousand dollars
Five hundred dollars
Fifty dollars and a bicycle

16. The golden ticket says Charlie should arrive at Mr. Wonka’s factory on what day?

January 1
The Saturday after he finds the ticket
The day after he finds the ticket
Christmas

17. Which member of the Bucket family accompanies Charlie to the factory?

Grandpa Joe
Grandma Georgina
Mrs. Bucket
His sister

18. What happens to Augustus in the chocolate room?

He falls prey to an Oompa-Loompa
He falls into the chocolate river
He falls in love with Veruca
He finds nothing to eat

19. Who are the Oompa-Loompas?

The bad children who get hurt at the factory
Believers in Loompanetics
Mr. Wonka’s secret workforce imported from Loompaland to run the factory
None of the above

20. How do the Oompa-Loompas react to the bad things that happen to the children?

They are sad and somber
They sing songs about the old days in Loompaland
The remain silent for hours at a time
They sing songs about why children are bad and what should happen to them

21. Of all the grownups visiting the factory, which one does not think Mr. Wonka is crazy?

Mrs. Beauregarde
Grandpa Joe
Charlie
Mr. Salt

22. What effect does chewing Mr. Wonka’s gum have on Violet?

It turns her into a frog
It makes her feel like dancing
It turns her into a blueberry
It makes her look more like her father

23. What do the squirrels decide about Veruca?

She is very amusing
She talks too much
She spends too much time chewing gum
She is a bad nut

24. Which button does Mike Teavee press in the glass elevator?

TELEVISION ROOM
TELEVISION OOMPA LOOMPAS
UP AND OUT
SLANTWAYS

25. What does Charlie win by being the only child to complete Mr. Wonka’s tour?

A ride in the glass elevator
An Oompa-Loompa
The entire chocolate factory
None of the above

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