The Big Friendly Giant by Roald Dahl | Textual Question answer
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1. Here are some sentences that tell us how The BFG makes dreams. Put them in the right sequence by numbering them.
a. He blows in the powder through a blowpipe. [4]
b. The children breathe in the powder that floats around the room. [5]
c. He finds a room with a sleeping child. [2]
d. The BFG goes to house where children are asleep.[1]
e. He opens his suitcase and selects a power. [3]
2. Authors build characters by describing them to us. Fill in the blanks to complete the description of The BFG.
a. very tall: three times as tall as an ordinary man, tall enough to reach windows that are one or even two flights up.
b. very large: hands as large as wheelbarrows.
c. home: lives in an underground cavern close to the filling station.
d. usually goes out only when it is dark.
e. always carries a suitcase and a blowpipe.
Reference to contex
3. But he was a marvelous storyteller. He used to make up a bedtime story for me every single night and the best ones turned into serials and went on for many nights running.
a. Describe the ways in which Danny’s father told stories.
Ans: While telling the stories, Danny’s father used to stride up and down, waving his arms and waggling his fingers. But mostly he would sit close to him on the edge of his bunk and speak very softly.
b. In your own words, describe what a ‘serial’ is. Why do you think Danny liked the serials the best?
Ans: A “serial” is a story that is told in regular instalments on a daily basis over a long period of time.
Danny liked the serials the best because the serials contained a long story, unfolding few facts of the previous story. So it would be exciting to Danny to think about what would happen next.
c. Name and describe the character from one of the best serial stories told by Danny’s father?
Ans: The character was ‘Big Friendly Gaint’, or The BFG for short. The BFG was enormous. He was three times tall as an ordinary man and his hands were as big as wheelbarrows. He lived in a vast underground cavern and he only came out into the open when it was dark.
4. ‘Ah yes, my darling, there is a whole world of sounds around us that we cannot hear because our ears are simply not sensitive enough.’
a. List the sounds that The BFG could hear.
Ans: The BFG could hear the tread of a ladybird’s footsteps as she walked across a leaf. He could hear the whispering of ants as they scurried around in the soil talking to one another and the shrill cry of pain a tree gave out when a woodman cut into it with an axe.
b. How did The BFG store the dreams that he caught?
Ans: The BFG stored the dreams in glass bottles and the lid of the bottles were shut tightly.
c. What did the BFG do with the bad dreams?
Ans: The BFG exploded the bad dreams.
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