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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Janice Avery crying in Chapter 7?
(a) Janice told two of her friends that her father beats her and they gossiped about it at school.
(b) Janice fell and scraped her knees.
(c) Willard Hughe’s told her that he does not love her.
(d) Someone called Janice fat at lunch.

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

3. What happens while Jess is milking Miss Bessie in Chapter 10?
(a) His mother wakes and scolds him for not making breakfast.
(b) He receives a telephone call from a woman.
(c) Leslie finds him and asks him to go to Terabithia.
(d) Prince Terrien scares Miss Bessie.

4. What does Mrs. Burke sometimes do while Jess, Leslie and Mr. Burke are painting and working?
(a) She helps.
(b) She cooks treats for them.
(c) Mrs. Burke is not around when they are painting the living room.
(d) She reads poetry to them.

5. What does Jess’s father have to remind him in Chapter 11?
(a) That Leslie has died.
(b) To be kind to his sisters.
(c) That today is a school day.
(d) To walk P.T.

6. What does Jess do with what he retrieves from under his mattress in Chaper 12?
(a) Gives it to his sisters.
(b) Takes it to the barn and burns it.
(c) He turns it over in his hands again and again as he cries.
(d) He runs down to the creek and flings all of it into the dirty brown water.

7. Where do Jess and his parents go at the beginning of Chapter 12?
(a) Out to dinner.
(b) To the school.
(c) To the Perkins place to visit Leslie’s parents.
(d) To Leslie’s funeral.

8. Who is the only one at the table whose head isn’t down in Chapter 11?
(a) Mother.
(b) Brenda.
(c) Father.
(d) May Belle.

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

10. What broke, causing Leslie’s death?
(a) The rope used to swing across the creek.
(b) Her bicycle chain.
(c) One of Leslie’s legs.
(d) None of the above.

11. What does Mr. Burke begin to do to the old Perkins place?
(a) “Remodel the kitchen.”
(b) “Repair it.”
(c) “Tear it down.”
(d) “Burn it.”

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

13. In Chapter 8, where does Leslie want Jess to take her?
(a) To the barn.
(b) To the palace.
(c) To the dance.
(d) To church on Easter.

14. Who is afraid of the water in Chapter 9?
(a) Leslie.
(b) Judy.
(c) Miss Bessie.
(d) Jess.

15. At the Smithsonian, which exhibit does Jess feel a “frightening sense of kinship” with (p.100)?
(a) 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.
(b) The Egyptian mummy exhibit.
(c) The large art murals.
(d) he display case with the dinosaur fossils.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leslie says the finished living room is “worthy to be in ________” what?

2. Where does Jess get invited to go in Chapter 10?

3. When does Leslie finally tell Jess what happened with Janice Avery?

4. Why does Jess feel uncomfortable at the Burke’s house in Chapter 12?

5. Where does Jess’ dad go early every morning?

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