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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. What does Jess do with what he retrieves from under his mattress in Chaper 12?
2. What do Jess and Leslie see at the creek bed that leads them to Terabithia?
3. What is unusual when Jess returns home from the gallery?
4. What does Jess’s father do to comfort him in Chapter 11?
5. What color is the Burke’s living room painted?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Miss Edmunds want Jess to see in the galleries?
2. Why doesn’t Jess want to go to Terabithia alone?
3. Describe how Jess and Leslie react differently to the rushing creek in Chapter 8.
4. What does Jess help Mr. Burke and Leslie do?
5. At the beginning of Chapter 9, Jess muses on the differences between his own mother and Judy, Leslie’s mother. What differences does he think about?
6. How Jesse’s father is portrayed differently in Chapter 11? What does he do?
7. Why does Jess describe his day with Miss Edmunds as the “perfect day”?
8. When Jess wakes in the night in Chapter 11, what does he think has happened?
9. Why doesn’t Jess’s mom buy her daughers new clothes for Easter Sunday?
10. Why does Mr. Burke find Jess so helpful?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is unsatisfying about Jess's relationship to his parents? Who, if anyone, is at fault for this? What needs to be done to improve the relationship? Does this happen in the novel?
Essay Topic 2
Jess doesn’t have enough money to buy Leslie a Christmas present. He feels a lot of anxiety about making her something and keeps destroying the drawings that he creates. Why does Jess feel so much anxiety about Leslie’s gift? Why does it need to be perfect? What does it represent for Jess? What does he get her?
Essay Topic 3
Jess's irritation with his four sisters, his conflicts with his short-tempered mother, and his defeat in the race for which he trained all summer might have prevented his friendship with Leslie. How would you account for the growth of their friendship?
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