James and the Giant Peach - Comprehension Flashcards

James' parents were eaten by an angry rhinoceros who escaped from the zoo when James was four.

James lives with his Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker who treat him terribly.

Aunt Sponge was short and fat. Aunt Spiker was tall and bony. They were both selfish, lazy and cruel.

<p>An old man in a dark green suit came out of the bushes to talk to James.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The recipe for the magic crystals is crocodile tongues boiled in a dead witch's skull for 20 days with lizard eyeballs. Add monkey fingers, pig gizzard, parrot beak, porcupine juice and sugar. Stew for a week.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>James was to pour water on the crystals and add 10 hairs from his head, one by one. Then drink it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The crystals will work their magic on whomever they meet first so James shouldn't let them get away.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>James tripped and spilled the crystals and they sunk into the ground.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A peach grew on the peach tree. It grew bigger than the tree.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Aunt Spiker didn't want to eat the peach because she thought they could make money off of it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>James was locked in the house while people came to see the peach.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In the garden in the moonlight, the dewdrops were sparkling like diamonds, the whole garden seemed to be alive with magic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>James discovered a hole in the peach.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>James found a tunnel leading to a room in the peach pit.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The bugs were talking to James to let him know he's one of them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The centipede and worm were arguing about how many legs the centipede has.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The insects are this way because they ate green crystals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It took James two hours to take off the 21 pairs of boots.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The light is the glowworm.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The centipede is chewing the stem to break the peach away so they can go on a journey.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The peach rolled over Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The peach rolled through fields, down the Main Street of a village, crashed through a chocolate factory, through the countryside and over a cliff into the ocean.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ride in the peach was frantic and bumpy. Everyone was thrown around the room.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The solution to their lack of food problem was to eat the peach.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sharks swam up to the peach and started eating it which caused panic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>James thought they could try and hook the silk string from the silkworm on the seagulls and they will raise the peach out of the water to escape from the sharks. He wanted to use the earthworm as bait.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>James has become the leader because he is a problem solver.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It took 502 seagulls to lift the peach.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Shark's noses are too long and their mouth sits awkwardly so they couldn't get their teeth into the peach.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They flew over the Queen Mary. They couldn't believe it. People thought the Captain had been drinking.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The music came from the grasshopper's legs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Grasshopper's ears are on their stomach, and cricket's ears are on their legs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Earthworms eat soil to break it up for the farmers. Ladybirds eat crop-damaging insects. Spiders eat flies and mosquitoes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The centipede fell over the side.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>James jumped after the centipede and used the silkworm's thread to pull them back up.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The cloud men were making hailstones.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The cloud men threw hailstones because the centipede yelled at them and called them names.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The cloud men were on a rainbow painting it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The cloud men got so angry because their ropes got tangled in the ropes of the peach.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The centipede got covered in paint.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The spider told how her grandmother got stuck in the ceiling paint when Aunt Spiker painted.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The rain washed the centipede clean.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The cloud men make weather by turning on the faucets to make rain, snow machines make snow, drums make thunder, and a frost factory for frost.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They saw land when it became daylight.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>James thought they were in America because they saw skyscrapers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It took only one night to cross the Atlantic Ocean.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The people of New York City thought the peach was an enormous bomb.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The airplane cut the ropes from the peach to the seagulls.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The peach landed on the top of the Empire State Building.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The men calmed down once they saw James come out of the peach.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The people of New York treated James and the insects like heroes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All the children started eating the peach.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Centipede was made Vice President in charge of sales for a boot and shoe manufacturer. Earthworm was employed to make commercials for a face cream company. Silkworm &amp; Spider set up a factory to make nylon ropes for tightrope walkers. Glow-worm became the light inside the torch of the Statue of Liberty. Grasshopper became a member of the New York Symphony Orchestra. Ladybird married the head of the fire department. James lived in the peach stone and was visited by people all the time. The peach stone became James' house.</p> Signup and view all the answers