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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. Where is James locked after the peach is grown?

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

3. Why does the old man give James the beans?

4. What do the voices in the center of the peach say when James enters?

5. What does the ladybug think when the peach stops rolling?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do James's parents die?

2. What does the old man tell James about the beans?

3. How does James plan to rescue the peach from the danger the Centipede sees when they are in the ocean?

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

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

6. How does James spill the beans?

7. How do the aunts use the giant peach for their benefit?

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

9. How were the beans made?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Nature is an integral theme in this book and accounts for a great deal of the changes in plot direction. What are some of the places that nature appeared, and how did it work to alter the plot?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the key examples of gratitude in this book, and how do these instances affect that characters involved in those scenes?

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