Chapters 1 – 5

Questions

A. Answer each question with a complete answer.

1. What concern does Charlie’s family have about the landing speed of the Glass
Elevator when it hits the Factory?

2. Why were Charlie, Mr. Wonka and the other travelers lifted up from the floor and left
floating like balloons inside the Elevator?

3. What wild idea at Houston, and the President himself have about the unusual
spaceship that was heading toward Space Hotel USA?

4. Who were the three American astronauts and what was their job?

5. What was the best advice the President could give the three astronauts regarding the
danger that the Glass Elevator seemed to be for the Americans?

6. What were some of the worries of the people on the Glass Elevator about Mr.
Wonka’s idea?

7. What does Mr. Wonka mean when he says, you’ll never get anywhere if you go about
“what-iffing like that?”

8. Explain how the crew in the Elevator stop floating about and then be able to move
correctly inside the Glass Elevator.

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Questions

9. List the people whom the President telephoned regarding this unknown space
capsule which is linked up to the Space Hotel.

10. The President asked his Chief Spy which people he thought might want to blow up
the Space Hotel. List the names of those suggested by the Chief Spy.

11. Find a simile (a figure of description speech) which illustrates how the Glass
Elevator had linked up to the Space Hotel.

12. What additional but important device did Mr. Wonka and his crew find on the Space
Hotel that wasn’t on the Glass Elevator?

13. List some grand items Mr. Wonka and the others noticed in the Space Hotel.

14. Why do you think Mr. Wonka didn’t want the Americans to know who they were?

15. What do you think the President meant when he said, “We’d be troculated like
turkeys, everyone of us!”

16. How do we know the President and his committee have been frightened by Mr.
Wonka?

CHAPTERS 1 – 5

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CHAPTERS 1 – 5
Language and Vocabulary
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A. Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or
closely connected words.

Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Skim through the pages of chapters 1 to 5 in Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.
Locate the examples written by the author Roald Dahl.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10. Alliterations are so fun and easy to do! These may be written in sentence form, or
they may take on a poetic pattern. Following is an example of Alliterations.

Sassy Shayla sold sticky strawberry suckers on Saturday and in snowed.

Shayla’s strawberry suckers went soggy. Shayla sobbed and sobbed until
Sunday.

Now you try writing your own Alliteration below.

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B. Contractions: A contraction is created when two words become one word. The
process involves the omission of one or more medial letters or sounds. An apostrophe
replaces these omitted letters. In the following activity write down the two root words
from which each contraction was formed.

1. we’ll = +
2. can’t = +
3. we’re = +
4. there’s = +
5. they’re = +
6. don’t = +
7. they’ve = +
8. you’ve = +
9. that’s = +
10. it’s = +

C. Alphabetical Order: Place the following words from chapters 1 and 2 into correct
alphabetical order. Follow the rules of alphabetizing.

Passengers contraption whooshing thickwit scrambled

Floating glimpse shriek telescope disguise
Astronaut bottle-green chamber maids trifle eerie
Magnificent fabulous completely fantastic focused
Suspended accustomed sinister luxury

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.

7. 8. 9.

10. 11. 12.

13. 14. 15.

16. 17. 18.

19. 20. 21.

22. 23. 24.

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Writing and Creativity

A.
1. Knock-Knock Jokes
Mr. Lancelot R. Gillipass “the President” enjoys using humour when he speaks to the
important people. Try to solve the message in each of his punch lines.

a) “Courteney one yet?” said the president.

b) ”Warren Peace by Leo Tolstoy,” said the President.

c) ”Ginger yourself much when you fell off the Great Wall of China?” said the President.

2. Activity: Using the regular format of the “Knock-knock Joke” make your own jokes.
Following are some ideas to use to build your own:
a) food: banana, butter, ketchup, lettuce…
b) names: Eileen, Gladys, Justin, Sarah, Wanda…
c) others: pasteurize, gopher, boo, thunder…..

a) Knock-knock. b) Knock-knock.
Who’s there? Who’s there?

Who? Who?

c) Knock-knock. d) Knock-knock.
Who’s there? Who’s there?

Who? Who?

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Page 5:Chapters 1 – 5 Questions

A. 1.The crew believed that everyone would die and become pulpified eggs. 2. The Glass Elevator had gone beyond the earth’s
gravitational pull. They were now in outer space 3. Ground Control at Houston and the President both felt that the Glass Elevator
was going to blow up Space Hotel U.S.A. . 4. Shuckworth, Shanks, and Showler were chosen to take the Commuter Capsule
containing the entire staff to the Space Hotel U.S.A. 5. The President’s advice was to keep well clear of them! 6. The worries are:
would they be chased by the Commander Capsule?, would they be shot at?, and might they be captured? 7. Answers will vary.
8. Answers will vary but must continue facts, ie. crew member can take a breath, make small hole in your mouth, blow, mouth is
used as a booster rocket.

Page 6: Chapters 1 – 5 Questions

9. The President talked to: Premier Yugetoff, Mr. Wing’s Fish and Vegetable Store, and the Assistant-Premier Chu On Dat Chin.
10. The names suggested are: Mr. Waldorf and Mr. Hilton. These two men both own a large chain of hotels back on earth. The
Space Hotel could be considered competition for each of them. 11. Simile…”like some tiny baby animal clinging to its mother.”
12. The Space Hotel has a gravity-making machine so that its occupants can walk about without the fear of floating about.
13. The saw a huge lobby with a thick green carpet with tremendous chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. There were walls
covered with valuable pictures and some big sofa arm chairs. 14. Answers will vary. 15. Answers will vary. “troculated” is one of
those made-up words. 16. The President is worried as he insists that the “mystery people” at the Space Hotel be treated gently,
spoken to politely and made welcomed.

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A. 1.slimy and soggy and squishous 2. great green greasy 3. vile and vermicious 4. great greenish-brown brutes
5. Commuter Capsule 6. Shuckworth, Shanks and Showler 7. baked and boiled 8. Jumping - jackrabbits 9. devilish dumpery
10. Student Response

Page 8: Chapters 1 – 5 Language & Vocabulary

B. 1. we + will 2. can + not 3. we + are 4. there + is 5. they + are 6. do + not 7. they + have 8. you + have 9. that + is
10. it + is
C. 1. accustomed 2. astronaut 3. bottle-green 4. chambermaids 5. completely 6. contraption 7. disguise 8. eerie 9. fabulous
10. fantastic 11. floating 12. focused 13. glimpse 14. luxury 15. magnificent 16. passengers 17. scrambled 18. shriek
19. sinister 20. suspended 21. telescope 22. thickwit 23. trifle 24. whooshing

Page 9: Chapters 1 – 5 Writing & Creativity

A.1. a) Caught anyone yet? b) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy c) Injure yourself much! 2. Students jokes will vary.

Pages 10 & 11: Chapters 1 – 5 Writing & Creativity

B. Student response

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C. Student response

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D. 1. GREEN 2. TAILS 3. COLOUR 4. BOTTLE ANSWER IS “GNOOLIES”

Page 14: Chapters 6 – 10 Questions

A. 1. Answers will vary, possibly to capture or destroy these enemy space travelers. 2. Answers will vary, possibly Mr. Wonka tries
to create evil and mysterious pictures of weird and frightening creatures to upset the President and his committee. 3. Some of the
characteristics of the strange creatures are: enormous egg shape, tall as a big boy, wider than the fattest man, greenish-brown skin,
wrinkled skin, shiny, wet like appearance, two large eyes with brilliant red pupils and body that is slightly pulsing and bulging.
4. Mr. Wonka, Charlie and the rest of the crew ran quickly out of the lobby and into the Glass Elevator. Soon the doors were bolted
shut and buttons were being pushed. 5. “Place” words for the knid’s injury are: rear-end, bottom, fanny, behind, tail, rump and rear.
6. Answers will vary. Suggestions: beak, snout, honker, breather, eye glass holder, smeller and sniffer. 7. The four words to
describe the Knid are: brutal, vindictive, venomous, and murderous. 8. The creature lives on the planet Vermes.

Page 15: Chapters 6 – 10 Questions

9. The Knids’ are not heatproof and also don’t have any retro-rockets. When and if they enter the earth’s atmosphere, they will
burn-up (sizzle) from the friction of the outer atmosphere while moving at high speeds of entry. 10. The Glass Elevator is
shockproof, waterproof, bombproof and knidproof. 11. Disagree!! The Mars Bar will melt regardless – either by baking or putting it
into boiling water. 12. The President noted that the carpets went from wall to wall and the wallpaper went from wall to wall.
13. The people are screaming and yelling out of fear of the attacking knids. Some people are being eaten by the knids.
14. Answers will vary. The Capsule is unable to follow a drivers directional choice. A car driver can make choices. Gravity force
ensures car and road contact. The Capsule must move in an orbital path. The driver has no directional control other than using
retro-rockets. 15. The Knids are now leaving the Space Hotel and are attacking the Commuter Capsule. 16. All the rockets on the
Capsule have been destroyed by the Knids’ attack.

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