Dog Man: Big Jim Believes: A Graphic Novel (Dog Man #14): From the Creator of Captain Underpants Reading Comprehension Questions

1.What did Big Jim invent to make the world a better place?

2.What happened when Big Jim first activated the Belief Machine?

3.Who tried to use the Belief Machine for his own purposes after seeing the chaos?

4.Why do you think Big Jim felt surprised and sad after activating the Belief Machine?

5.What does Li'l Petey's role in helping Big Jim suggest about his character?

6.Why did Petey the Cat decide to use the Belief Machine for himself at first?

7.What lesson did Big Jim learn about belief by the end of the story?

8.What is the main message the story wants readers to understand about true belief?

9.How did the Belief Machine's effects change from what Big Jim intended?

10.What does the word 'chaos' mean in the story when the machine made people believe strange things?

11.When Petey the Cat was described as 'opportunistic,' what does that mean he was doing?

12.What does it mean for belief to be 'genuine' as Li'l Petey explained it?

13.If you had a Belief Machine, what is one good thing you would try to make people believe? What might be a problem with that?

14.Can you think of a time when someone had good intentions, but their actions caused an unexpected problem? How did they fix it?