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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. Why do people in the city feel the way they do when they see the peach?

2. What do the firefighters do when they see the people in the peach?

3. Who yells at the Cloud Men?

4. What does the peach land on?

5. What does the substance poured on the Centipede make it hard for him to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Spider do to make a living at the end of the book?

2. How does Centipede get paint stuck on him?

3. What reminds Spider of the death of her aunt?

4. Why is James so surprised when he sees the Cloud Men?

5. How did Spider's aunt die?

6. How does the peach get away from the water that the Cloud Men try to hurt the peach with?

7. What do the Cloud Men spend all their time doing?

8. Where does James live when the journey is over?

9. How does Centipede get the rainbow paint off of him?

10. How does James calm the people in the city down when they see the giant insects?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which character did you relate with the most in this book? Why is this? How did this character change throughout the book?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

What jobs do the insects take at the end of the book, and what led to them choosing those positions?

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