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    This document provides reading comprehension questions about chapters 1-10 of the book "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl. It begins with background on James' parents and him going to live with his two aunts, who he describes as "horrible and cruel." In subsequent chapters, James encounters a mysterious man who gives him magic green things that cause a peach to grow enormous in size. James discovers various insect inhabitants inside the giant peach and decides to embark on an adventure in the new world he finds within. The chapters are summarized through questions about key plot points and details in each section.

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    This document provides reading comprehension questions about chapters 1-10 of the book "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl. It begins with background on James' parents and him going to live with his two aunts, who he describes as "horrible and cruel." In subsequent chapters, James encounters a mysterious man who gives him magic green things that cause a peach to grow enormous in size. James discovers various insect inhabitants inside the giant peach and decides to embark on an adventure in the new world he finds within. The chapters are summarized through questions about key plot points and details in each section.

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    This document provides reading comprehension questions about chapters 1-10 of the book "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl. It begins with background on James' parents and him going to live with his two aunts, who he describes as "horrible and cruel." In subsequent chapters, James encounters a mysterious man who gives him magic green things that cause a peach to grow enormous in size. James discovers various insect inhabitants inside the giant peach and decides to embark on an adventure in the new world he finds within. The chapters are summarized through questions about key plot points and details in each section.

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    JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH

    By Roald Dahl
    Reading Comprehension Chapters 1-10
    Directions: Use the information from the chapter noted to answer the questions below.

    Chapter 1
    1. Why did James no longer live with his parents? Who did he go live with?

    __________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________
    2. What three words did James use to describe his Aunts?
    __________________________________________________________
    3. As James became more and more sad, what did he do for hours and
    hours?

    __________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________
    Chapter 2
    1. What words did the author use to describe the three peculiar things that
    happened?___________________________________________

    _________________________________________
    2. Name three characteristics used to describe Aunt Sponge and Aunt
    Spiker.

    __________________________________________________
    3. What emotion did James exhibit at the end of this Chapter?_________

    __________________________________________________

    JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH


    Reading Comprehension Chapters 1-10 continued
    ________________________________________________________________
    Chapter 3
    1. How did James feel when he first saw and approached the small strange
    man?
    ___________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________
    2. What happened when James looked inside the bag?________________

    __________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________
    Chapter 4
    1. When the old man said, That sets them off! It gets them going! what was
    he referring to?
    __________________________________________________________
    1. What is James to do with the jug of green things?___________________

    __________________________________________________
    2. What does the old man already know about James?_________________
    __________________________________________________________
    3. What is the marvelous, fabulous, and unbelievable thing that will happen
    to James?

    __________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________
    Chapter 5
    1. What happened as James ran back towards the house? _____________

    __________________________________________________
    2. Where did the little green things go? _____________________________

    JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH


    Reading Comprehension Chapters 1-10 continued
    ________________________________________________________________
    Chapter 6
    1. What did Aunt Spiker find?_________________________________

    __________________________________________________
    2. How did this discovery make James feel?___________

    __________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________
    3. What was the peach doing?____________________________________

    __________________________________________________
    Chapter 7
    1. How did the author describe the peach when it first started growing?

    __________________________________________________
    ____________________________________________
    2. What three colors were used to describe the skin of the peach? ______
    _________________________________________________________
    3. What did Aunt Spiker think they could get for the peach?___________

    __________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________
    Chapter 8
    1. What did the carpenters build and why?___________________________

    __________________________________________________
    2. How were the aunts making money?____________________________

    __________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________
    3. Where was James when all of the townspeople were coming around?

    __________________________________________________

    JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH


    Reading Comprehension Chapters 1-10 continued
    ________________________________________________________________
    4. What did the Aunts order James to do?_________________________

    __________________________________________________
    5. What was it that James pleaded, before doing what they told him?
    ______________________________________________________
    Chapter 9
    1. According to James, what are most people and especially children
    scared of?

    __________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________
    2. What seemed to be alive with magic? ___________________________
    _________________________________________________
    3. What did James see on the peach? ____________________________
    _________________________________________________
    Chapter 10
    1. What did James do after seeing the hole?
    ______________________________

    __________________________________________________
    2. When James approached the stone in the middle of the peach, what did
    he see and do next?
    ________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________
    3. When he first heard the voices, how did he feel? __________________

    __________________________________________________

    JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH


    Chapters 1-10 Vocabulary

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    WORD
    1. enormous
    2. horrible
    3. miserable
    4. desolate
    5. wistfully
    6. peculiar
    7. hideous
    8. blunt
    9. brute
    10. emerge
    11. bristly
    12. beckon
    13. extraordinary
    14. luminous
    15. froth
    16. pulpy
    17. despair
    18. bulge
    19. advanced
    20. seething
    21. glinting
    22. tremendous
    23. extreme
    24. marvelous

    SYNONYM

    ANTONYM

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