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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. How many seagulls total are captured?

2. Who saves the peach from the deluge of water?

3. What kind of company does the Centipede start working for?

4. Who yells at the Cloud Men?

5. What city did the peach start out in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the creatures on the peach think when they see the rainbow being made?

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

3. What does the Lady Bug teach James about himself?

4. What do the people in the city think is happening when they see the peach?

5. What happened to the rainbow the Cloud Men were making?

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

7. How is the Centipede freed from the paint that was spilled on him?

8. What did Spider do to help her aunt before she died?

9. How does James get the peach to get closer to the ground?

10. What is the first thing the travelers notice about the city?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The characters in this book each had their own goals and motivations. Select four characters and write their main motivation throughout the book and how this goal affected the characters around them.

Essay Topic 2

The old man introduces the theme of magic in this book. Where are some of the key places that this theme appears, and how do these events alter the plot of the book?

Essay Topic 3

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

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