Food & Drink
What does B.F.G stand for?
Where was Sophie snatched by the BFG?
An orphanage (in England)
What is the genre of this book?
Fantasy fiction
Name two items the BFG uses to collect dreams.
Net and jar.
Where does Sophie hide when the Fleshlumpeater comes into the BFG's cave?
Inside a snozzcumber
What type of dream did the BFG give the Fleshlumpeater?
"If anyone is ever seeing a giant, he or she must be taken away hipswitch."
What do you think hipswitch means?
Immediately
(We can infer this meaning, because we know that the giants do not want to be seen.)
Name three items that Sophie and the BFG had for breakfast at the Queen's palace.
Sausages, eggs, rashers (bacon), toast, fried potatoes.
What is the conflict between the BFG and the Giants?
The BFG thinks it is wrong that the Giants eat human beans (beings).
What happens when Sophie drinks Frobscottle?
She whizzpops! :)
They were tied to helicopters (also know as 'bellypoppers')
"The nose was as sharp as a knife."
What literary technique does Dahl use in this sentence?
A simile.
The BFG says that Eskimos taste of this.
Ice-cream lolly.
What piece of jewelry did the Queen give to Sophie to wear?
What type of snake did the Fleshlumpeater think bit him?
A viper
They were in a country of swirling mists and ghostly vapors.
Dahl uses adjectives to give detail to his writing. What are the two adjectives in this sentence.
swirling and ghostly
If the 9 giants each guzzled 5 human beans, how many human beans were guzzled in all?
45 humans
What wish (to do with an animal) came true for the BFG?
The BFG had wished for an elephant to ride on. The Ruler of India gave him a magnificent elephant as a gift.
Where does Sophie live now?
In a cottage beside the BFG's house. They both live on the grounds of the Queen's palace.
Name the 9 giants.
Fleshlumpeater, Bonecruncher, Manhugger, Childchewer, Meatdripper, Gizzardgulper, Maidmasher, Bloodbottler, Butcher Boy
What was the problem in this story and how was it solved?
Problem: Giants were eating children all over the world.
Solution: Sophie and the BFG worked together to put a dream into the Queen's mind, so that she would give orders to the army and air force to capture the giants and stop them for eating children.