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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 on the ship sees the floating peach?

2. Who wants to eat the peach when it is brought to the ground?

3. Who does the Lady bug like to benefit?

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

5. Where is the bait hidden once the seagulls come close to the peach?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What job does the Glow Worm get when the journey is over?

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

6. How did Spider's aunt die?

7. What do the travelers all do when they get panicky about getting close to the city?

8. What does the Lady Bug do after the journey is over?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 2

What did James learn about himself from his interaction with the Spider, and how did these interaction cause him to change?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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