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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 does the Grasshopper teach James about?

2. How does James prove how much he loves his new friends to the city people?

3. What direction has the peach floated over?

4. How does James describe the insects to all the city people?

5. What is the first thing noticed about the city below the peach?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is so mind boggling to James about the city he is about to land in?

2. How did Spider's aunt die?

3. What makes the Cloud Men threaten to eat the people on the peach?

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

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

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

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

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

9. How did Spider's aunt die?

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

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

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?

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