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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Jess’s elementary school?
(a) Boulder Mountain.
(b) Blue River.
(c) Lark Creek.
(d) Sequoia Ridge.

2. What state is Lark Creek in?
(a) Ohio.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Maine.

3. How does Jess describe his house at the beginning of the book?
(a) As homey.
(b) As rattly.
(c) As new.
(d) As dirty.

4. What does Mrs. Myers ask Jess to do in Chapter 3?
(a) Pick up quizzes.
(b) Give a report.
(c) Read aloud to the class.
(d) Hand out math books.

5. Who steals from May Belle in Chapter 5?
(a) Gary Fulcher.
(b) Willard Hughes.
(c) Miss Bessie.
(d) Janice Avery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jess’s teacher’s name?

2. Who wouldn’t Jess dare show his drawings to?

3. What time were Jess’s sisters supposed to be home by in Chapter 2?

4. How does Mrs. Myers describe Leslie’s report?

5. What does Jess get from his parents for Christmas?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jess get peace in the evenings?

2. Based on initial descriptions of his home and school, what type of neighborhood and community does Jess’s family live in?

3. Why is Jess anxious about making something for Leslie’s Christmas gift?

4. Why does Jess feel one must swing into Terabithia over the creek gully, rather than just walk through it?

5. How does Jess’s mother treat him the day he helps her can beans?

6. Why is Jess not interested in the fact that he will have new neighbors in the Perkins’ place?

7. Why doesn’t Jess allow Gary Fulcher to see his drawings?

8. Why do the students at Lark Creek have to eat lunch at their desks?

9. Why doesn’t Jess write about drawing for his hobby report in Mrs. Myer’s class?

10. What motivates Jess to smile at Leslie in Chapter 4?

(see the answer keys)

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