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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. How old is Jess?

2. What is the principal’s name at Jess and Leslie’s school?

3. Where does Jess tell May Belle he is going?

4. What doesn’t Leslie’s family have?

5. What was the hardest part of the plan with Janice Avery?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why are the other teachers critical of Miss Edmunds’ appearance?

6. What do Jess and Leslie believe Janice Avery hates above all else?

7. Why does Jess think that he is stupid, as described in Chapter 6?

8. Why does Jess run every morning during his summer vacation?

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

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

Paterson uses foreshadowing throughout Bridge to Terabithia to give readers emotional clues about what is to come. What foreshadowing did she provide for what was going to happen to Leslie?

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 believes that he’s always received less affection than his sisters. More than anything he wants to be able to hug and kiss his father like his younger sisters. Why does Jess feel too old for this? How do his parents treat him differently than his sisters? Why?

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