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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 tells Jess “Boy, don’t be a fool. God ain’t gonna send any little girls to hell”?

2. Who thanks Jess for being Leslie’s friend?

3. Why doesn’t Jess want to go to Terabithia when he wakes up Wednesday morning in Chapter 9?

4. What happened during the month of March?

5. What is unusual when Jess returns home from the gallery?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Jess help Mr. Burke and Leslie do?

4. What is Leslie’s advice for Janice Avery in Chapter 7?

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

6. What does Miss Edmunds want Jess to see in the galleries?

7. Why do the Aarons only go to church at Easter?

8. Though Jess does not want to go to Terabithia without Leslie in Chapter 7, he is reluctant to go home. Why?

9. Why doesn’t Jess want to go to Terabithia alone?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Leslie and Jess live in drastically different households. Compare Leslie’s relationship with her parents to the relationship that Jess has with his. In Chapter 4, Jess feels uncomfortable when he learns that Leslie calls her parents by their first names, why is this?

Essay Topic 2

Jess enjoys spending time at Terabithia and with Leslie at her house. Jess avoids going home as much as possible. Why doesn’t Jess like being at home? What happens when he is at home?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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