James and the Giant Peach - (Roald Dahl - Level: 7.1)
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Choose the best answer for each question listed below.


1. What did James' aunts always argue about?

What to have for supper.
Where to go on vacation.
How to make James work.
Who was the most beautiful.
What the moon was made of.

2. Why did Aunt Spiker tell Aunt Sponge not to eat the peach?

She wanted it all for herself.
They might make money out of it.
She thought it was a trick.
It didn't belong to them.
It was poisonous.

3. What did James discover when he climbed inside the peach?

A factory.
A witch.
The man in the green suit.
Fairies.
Insects.

4. What became of Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge?

They were arrested for stealing the peach.
They were flattened by the giant peach.
They were beaten up by angry tourists.
They drowned in a pool of peach juice.
They blew up from eating too much peach.

5. The insects pleaded with James to save the peach from ...

The Tourists.
Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge.
The sharks.
The seagulls.
The police.

6. Why did the Cloud-Men attack the peach?

They were afraid.
They were hungry.
They wanted the peach for themselves.
The centipede insulted them.
They did not like the seagulls.

7. How did the paint come off the centipede?

The wind blew it off.
The lightning zapped it off.
He was drenched with water.
His friends peeled it off.
Hailstones shattered it off.

8. The people of New York City thought the peach was ...

A spaceship.
A hot air balloon.
A cloud of air pollution.
An enormous bomb.
Part of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

9. Where did the peach land in New York City?

On the Empire State Building.
On the Statue of Liberty.
In Central Park Lake.
On the Plaza Hotel.
On the Brooklyn Bridge.

10. What happened to the peach at the end of the story?

It was sent to the Smithsonian Institute.
Someone stole it.
It rotted away.
It melted.
The children ate it.

Your score is out of 10.