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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who drives back and forth to Washington for work?

3. What did Jess help his mother do in Chapter 2?

4. When does Jess tell Leslie to meet him so that he can give Leslie her present?

5. How old is Jess?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Jess initially afraid of when he does smile at Leslie?

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

5. Why does May Belle call Jess “yeller”?

6. Why isn’t running fun for the boys anymore in Chapter 4?

7. How does Jess get peace in the evenings?

8. How does a specific kid bully others in Chapter 5?

9. What is peculiar about what Leslie is wearing on the first day of fifth grade?

10. Why does Jess make dinner for his younger sisters? What does he make?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What provokes Jess and Leslie to befriend Janice when they find her crying?

Essay Topic 2

What guilt and what fear does Jess overcome in his rescue of May Belle? Why and for whom does Jess build the bridge into Terabithia? How does this action relate to Jess's friendship with Leslie?

Essay Topic 3

Jess and Leslie create an imaginary land called Terabithia. How is Terabithia both literally and figuratively an escape for them? For Jess, why is Terabithia an escape? For Leslie, why is Terabithia an escape? Why does Jess believe Leslie is fit to be a queen?

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