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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. Who provides James with what he needs to save the peach from the sharks?

2. What is Aunt Sponge thinking about when she dies?

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

4. What can James see from his aunts' house?

5. What do the beans spill near?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the beds created in the peach?

2. How were the beans made?

3. What is James's biggest worry after spilling the beans?

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

5. What is Aunt Sponge like?

6. How do James's aunts die?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What did James do to get the peach safely away from the sharks, and how did this idea change the entire form of the journey?

Essay Topic 2

James finds that for the first time since his parents died, there are people in his life whom he likes. List five of these people and explain what they did to earn James' sacred regard for them.

Essay Topic 3

What happens to James at the the end of the book, and what deeper meanings does this event imply? How does this one event change James' life and perspective and why do you think the author placed this scene where he did?

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