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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 - 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does James trip over before spilling the beans?
(a) A foot.
(b) A boot.
(c) A root.
(d) A garden shoot.

2. What does James do at night after the peach is grown?
(a) Polish the peach.
(b) Clean up the yard.
(c) Cut slices off the peach.
(d) Water and weed the garden.

3. Why is it strange to see a peach on the tree?
(a) It is an old barren tree.
(b) It is the winter.
(c) All of these.
(d) It is an apple tree.

4. Why does James not pick the peach?
(a) It keeps growing.
(b) It makes him happy.
(c) The aunts tell him not to.
(d) She is too scared.

5. What item was James allowed to bring with him to his aunts' house?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A book.
(c) A toothbrush.
(d) A stuffed animal.

Short Answer Questions

1. How big is the peach when it rests on the ground?

2. Where is James confined to at the aunts' house?

3. How does the narrator describe James' early childhood?

4. What are the beans kept in?

5. How long have the creatures in the peach have been waiting for?

(see the answer key)

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