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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Aunt Spiker thinking about when she dies?
(a) How much money she will make that day.
(b) How ugly her sister is.
(c) How to get rid of James.
(d) What to make with her peach.

2. What is said to calm the Earthworm down when she gets worried about being at sea?
(a) They can't be lost as they had no plans.
(b) The hole is now at the top.
(c) The peach is floating.
(d) They can eat the peach.

3. What do the voices in the center of the peach say when James enters?
(a) They can leave now.
(b) They are afraid of him.
(c) They have been waiting for him.
(d) They are happy to meet him.

4. What do the beans do when they hit the ground?
(a) Disappear.
(b) Explode.
(c) Just sit there.
(d) Burrow into the earth.

5. What does James do when he stops for breaks in the peach tunnel?
(a) Says chants.
(b) Calls for his aunts.
(c) Washes himself.
(d) Takes bites of the peach.

6. How big is the peach when it rests on the ground?
(a) As big as a tent.
(b) As big as a car.
(c) As big as a tree.
(d) As big as a house.

7. Where did the thing that killed James' parents escape from?
(a) A pet store.
(b) The zoo.
(c) An aquarium.
(d) The circus.

8. How is the peach disconnected from the tree?
(a) The tree is poisoned.
(b) It is pushed.
(c) Wings beat against it.
(d) The stem is gnawed off.

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

10. Where did the creatures have roles before entering the peach?
(a) The attic.
(b) The tree.
(c) The clouds.
(d) The garden.

11. What time is James alone with the peach?
(a) Sunset.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Sunrise.
(d) Noon.

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

13. Who calms the insects down when they are at sea?
(a) The Spider.
(b) The Glow Worm.
(c) The Grasshopper.
(d) James.

14. What kind of animals did the rolling peach frighten?
(a) Zoo animals.
(b) Farm animals.
(c) Circus animals.
(d) Wild animals.

15. Who makes the beds in the peach?
(a) The centipede.
(b) The silk worm.
(c) The spider.
(d) The grasshopper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does James trip over before spilling the beans?

2. How big is the peach when James starts to climb the tree?

3. Who calms the Earthworm down when she gets worried about being at sea?

4. Why is James so afraid when he sees the creatures in the center of the peach?

5. What do the witches threaten to do if James eats the peach?

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