Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

What is your favorite thing in the world?

How would you get it?

Watch a video clip on how chocolate is

made. What do you think about it?

What do you think this story is about? Why do

you think so?

COMPREHENSION CHECK
Chapters 1 to 3

1. What did Charlie love more than anything?

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2. What was special about the Sunday meal?

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3. What happened to Prince Pondicherry’s castle of chocolate?

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4. How many beds were there at the Bucket house? ___________________

5. Mr. Bucket worked in ________________________ as a

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6. How many grown-ups live with Charlie? _________________________

7. Who was Prince Pondicherry? __________________________________

8. Willy Wonka is _________________________________________.

9. Why do you think the four grandparents told Charlie about all the
wonderful sweets that Willy Wonka made?

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Chapters 4 to 9

1. Why did Mr. Wonka close the factory?

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2. How did Charlie learn about the golden tickets?

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3. How many children can go in the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory?

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4. What did Willy Wonka plan to give each holder of the golden tickets?

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5. Who were the first two finders of the golden tickets?

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6. What hobby does Augustus Gloop have?

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7. How did Veruca Salt get her golden ticket?

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8. Describe Veruca Salt.

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9. What effect did Willy Wonka's newspaper announcement have to the

world?

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10. What did Grandpa Joe and Charlie find in the candy bars that Charlie
was given for his

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11. Who found the third golden ticket?

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12. What did Violet Beauregarde love to eat?

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13. How long did Violet chew on the same piece of gum?

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14. What kind of candy bar did Charlie get for his birthday?

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15. What did Mike Teavee like to do?

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16. What did Charlie’s grandparents think about the winners of the golden
tickets?

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17. What did Grandpa Joe sneak and do?

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Chapters 10 to 12
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1. What did Mr. Bucket do after losing his job to earn extra money?

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2. What did Charlie find walking home from school?

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3. Who found the last ticket? When was it found?

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4. How many candy bars did Charlie look inside trying to find the golden
ticket?

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5. What did the lady in the store try to offer to Charlie after finding the
ticket?

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6. What did the storekeeper tell Charlie to do?

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7. What would each person who held the golden ticket go home with?

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8. Who would go with Charlie to the chocolate factory?

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9. How much does a Wonka's Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight

cost?

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Chapters 13-15

1. Why were the biggest rooms in the chocolate factory underground?

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2. Who were the little people on the other side of the chocolate river?

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3. Where did Willie Wonka take everyone first?

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4. What did Willie Wonka look like?

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5. What can you find in the chocolate room?

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6. How much chocolate was in the chocolate room?

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7. What did the Oompa-Loompas look like?

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Chapters 16 to 18

1. Who fell in the chocolate river? Why did it happen?

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2. Where did Augustus Gloop go after falling into the chocolate river?

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3. How did the group travel from the chocolate room?

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4. What did Veruca want?

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5. What did the Oompa-Loompas like to do?

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6. What made the pink boat go?

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7. Where did the boat go through?

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8. What did each room in the tunnel (54, 71, 77) have?

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9. The author most likely wrote this story to:

a) give information about creative and unusual types of chocolate.

b) explain how to make unusual types of candy.
c) persuade readers to participate in contests.
d) entertain readers by telling about a boy and a tour of a chocolate factory.

10. The Oompa Loompas's song can be identified as a poem because it has

a) words that describe Augustus Gloop's character.

b) a narrator who tells what happens.
c) a beginning and an end.
d) lines that end with rhyming words.

Chapters 19 to 21

1. For whom did Willie Wonka make the gobstoppers?

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2. What was special about the gobstopper?

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3. What happened when Violet Beauregarde chewed the gum?

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4. What did the gum taste like?

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5. The gum was a _________ course meal.

6. Violet turned into _______________________________.

7. Which room was top secret? Why do you think it was a top secret room?

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8. How many children were still touring the factory at the end of Chapter 21?
Why did their number decrease?

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Chapters 22 to 24

1. Where did the children go after leaving the Inventing Room?

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2. What was special about Mr. Wonka’s cows?

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3. The square candy looked ___________. How did it happen?

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4. Why couldn’t people go into the nut room?

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5. What did Veruca want? Did she get it? Why or why not?

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6. Why was Veruca thrown down the garbage chute?

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7. What happened to Mr. and Mrs. Salt?

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8. What do you think Mr. and Mrs. Salt do to Veruca after the incident?

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Chapters 25 to 27

 1. Describe the glass elevator.

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2. Which room did Mike Teavee want to visit?

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3. What did Mr. Wonka send through the television? Why did he do it?

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4. Why do the Oompa-Loompas sing?

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5. What caused Mike Teavee to get small?

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6. How big was Mike Teavee after traveling through the air?

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7. How did Willie Wonka suggest Mike Teavee be returned to normal?

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8. What did the Oompa-Loompas want children to do?

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9. What do you think the Teavees do after the incident? Why do you think
so?

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Chapters 28 to 30

1. Which button did Mr. Wonka choose in the elevator?

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2. Describe Mike Teavee when he left the factory.

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3. Describe the Salt family when they left the factory.

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4. Describe Augustus Gloop when he left the factory.

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5. Describe Violet Beauregarde when he left the factory.

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6. What did Augustus, Violet, Veruca, and Mike have when they left the
factory?

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7. What did Willie Wonka not have?

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8. Who did Willie Wonka give his chocolate factory to?

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9. When Mr. Wonka, Charlie, and Grandpa Joe are riding in the elevator;
Why did Mr. Wonka suggest going to Charlie's house?

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10. Do you think Charlie deserved to win? Why?

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11. What do you think will happen to the Buckets?

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What is one thing you want in the world? Draw it in the box. Give at least 3 reasons and
support each reason. How would you get it? Do you deserve it?

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Watch the movie adaptation of the novel. Compare and Contrast the movie and the book.

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