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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Jess feel uncomfortable at the Burke’s house in Chapter 12?
(a) He does not like the Burkes.
(b) He’s embarrassed of his parents.
(c) He is the only child and all of the adults are crying and watching him.
(d) The adults are not treating him kindly.

2. Why does Jess feel guilty about going to Washington D.C. with Miss Edmunds?
(a) He feels guilty that he didn’t stay and go to the creek with Leslie.
(b) He feels guilty that he likes Miss Edmunds more than Leslie.
(c) He feels guilty that he did not ask Leslie to go along with them.
(d) He feels guilty that he didn’t ask Leslie to be his girlfriend.

3. Leslie says the finished living room is “worthy to be in ________” what?
(a) “A palace.”
(b) “Terabithia.”
(c) “Heaven.”
(d) “A castle.”

4. What is Jess’ mother worried had happened in Chapter 10?
(a) That he drowned in the creek.
(b) His mother wasn’t worried.
(c) That he was kidnapped.
(d) That he ran away.

5. When Jess wakes in the middle of the night in Chapter 11, what does he think has happened?
(a) He doesn’t think anything has happened.
(b) That there has been a terrible mix up and that Leslie would never run away.
(c) That he has dreamed the terrible dream of someone telling him that Leslie has drowned.
(d) That his family is being cruel and playing a terrible joke on him.

6. Who sleeps in Jess’s bed with him in Chapter 12?
(a) Jess's father.
(b) Brenda.
(c) P.T., the dog.
(d) May Belle.

7. Which holiday is nearing in Chapter 8?
(a) Easter.
(b) New Year’s Day.
(c) Fourth of July.
(d) Labor Day.

8. What does Jess blame Leslie for in Chapter 12?
(a) Making him too girly and emotional.
(b) Bringing him into her world and before he was yet comfortable, leaving him stranded without her when he needs her most.
(c) For stealing his friends.
(d) Forcing him to only be the second fastest runner in the fifth grade.

9. Who does Leslie hear crying in the girls’ bathroom in Chapter 7?
(a) Miss Edmunds.
(b) Janice Avery.
(c) May Belle.
(d) Brenda.

10. What does Jess’s father do to comfort him in Chapter 11?
(a) He pats him on the back.
(b) Nothing, his father is not that kind of person.
(c) He gives Jess space.
(d) When Jess runs out of the house, his father goes after him, picks him up and drives him home in the truck.

11. After Leslie’s encounters with Janice Avery in Chapter 7, Leslie comes into the fifth grade classroom with what?
(a) A scowl.
(b) A bloody lip.
(c) A smile on her face.
(d) A black eye.

12. Where does Jess’ dad go early every morning?
(a) To work.
(b) He doesn’t go anywhere because he has been laid off.
(c) To look for a job.
(d) To get the paper.

13. At the Smithsonian, which exhibit does Jess feel a “frightening sense of kinship” with (p.100)?
(a) The large art murals.
(b) The display case holding the Native Americans draped in buffalo skins leading a herd over a cliff, with more Native Americans below, ready to butcher.
(c) he display case with the dinosaur fossils.
(d) The Egyptian mummy exhibit.

14. What does Jess resolve to tell Leslie in Chapter 10?
(a) That he does not feel comfortable around Mr. Burke.
(b) That he does not believe the Bible.
(c) That he no longer wants to be her friend.
(d) That he doesn’t want to go to Terabithia until the creek dries up.

15. Why doesn’t Jess want to go to Terabithia when he wakes up Wednesday morning in Chapter 9?
(a) It is still raining and he is afraid of the water.
(b) He doesn’t feel well.
(c) He and Leslie had an argument.
(d) He’s afraid May Belle will follow him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who doesn’t get new church clothes in Chapter 8?

2. What does Bill ask Jess to do in Chapter 12?

3. Who wants to go pay respects with Jess and his father?

4. What happened during the month of March?

5. What does Brenda tell Jess about Leslie in Chapter 10?

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