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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What calms James' fear in the center of the peach?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Anticipation.
(c) Laughter.
(d) Sleepiness.

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

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

4. What sound marks Aunt Sponge's death to James?
(a) A thud.
(b) A crunch.
(c) A squish,
(d) A scream.

5. Why are the hairs raised on James' neck when he is alone with the peach?
(a) He feels like something is about to happen.
(b) He is cold.
(c) He feels this has already happened before.
(d) He is scared.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does James do when he stops for breaks in the peach tunnel?

2. What does James feel as the peach begins to roll?

3. Where does James go to cry when the aunts refuse his request?

4. What do the insects think of eating the peach?

5. Where did James' parents die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What worries the Earthworm the most about being at sea?

2. How are the beds created in the peach?

3. How do James's parents die?

4. What does James help the centipede with when they first meet?

5. What does James think just before he enters the peach?

6. How does the Spider and Silk Worm help with James' plan to save the peach from the danger the Centipede found?

7. What do the insects tell James when he gets to the middle of the peach?

8. Why does James come to live with his aunts?

9. How does James get to the center of the peach?

10. What grave danger does the Centipede see for the peach when they are in the ocean?

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