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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 - 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the aunts threaten to do to James when he spills the beans?
(a) Put him in the well.
(b) With hold food.
(c) Make him sleep on the roof.
(d) Beat him.

3. How do the aunts plan to make money off the peach?
(a) By selling it to a museum.
(b) Py planting the pit for another giant peach.
(c) By making lots of pie.
(d) By charging people to see it.

4. How does the narrator describe James' early childhood?
(a) Strange.
(b) Happy.
(c) Uneventful.
(d) Dark.

5. What is James doing when he asks a favor of his aunts?
(a) Cooking lunch.
(b) Weeding the garden.
(c) Painting a fence.
(d) Chopping wood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the aunts want to punish James for when he spills the beans?

2. What are the beans kept in?

3. What does James do at night after the peach is grown?

4. What item was James allowed to bring with him to his aunts' house?

5. What do the beans spill near?

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