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

2. What does James sense while he is alone with the peach?

3. Where did James' parents die?

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

5. What kind of factory does the rolling peach ruin?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does James spill the beans?

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

4. What is Aunt Spiker like?

5. How were the beans made?

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

7. What does James learn about glow worms on his first night in the peach?

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

9. What do the earthworm and the centipede argue about when James first meets them?

10. How are the beds created in the peach?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do James and the Insects change through the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 2

What happened to Spider's aunt, and what message do you think the author was trying to send through the inclusion of that event in this story line?

Essay Topic 3

Fear is a common theme in this book that is presented a number of times by a number of characters. What are some of these instances, and how does fear affect the characters in the book?

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