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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. Why can’t Mrs. Burke help in Chapter 7?
(a) She is traveling for work.
(b) She is sick with influenza and cannot get out of bed.
(c) She is writing a book.
(d) She is in a wheelchair from polio.

2. Who finds Jess and comforts him at the creek in Chapter 12?
(a) Brenda.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) May Belle

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is afraid of the water in Chapter 9?

2. How does Jess respond to May Belle’s question when he returns from the Perkins’ place in Chapter 12?

3. In Chapter 8, where does Leslie want Jess to take her?

4. What does Mr. Burke begin to do to the old Perkins place?

5. What has been done with Leslie’s body in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn’t Jess’s mom buy her daughers new clothes for Easter Sunday?

2. Why does Jess want to help Janice Avery? What does this say about his

3. Why is Jess’ father home early in Chapter 10, and why is his family gathered around the table?

4. Even though Leslie was a strong swimmer, how is it plausible that she drowned? What do the adults and authorities think happened?

5. Why is Jesse upset that Leslie is being cremated?

6. How Jesse’s father is portrayed differently in Chapter 11? What does he do?

7. What does Jess resolve to talk to Leslie about in Chapter 10? What does he anticipate will be her reaction?

8. When Jess wakes in the night in Chapter 11, what does he think has happened?

9. What are Jess’s sisters fighting about in Chapter 8?

10. Why is Jess relieved when Leslie doesn’t tell her parents about Terabithia?

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