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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 does Jess feel guilty about going to Washington D.C. with Miss Edmunds?

2. What does Mrs. Burke sometimes do while Jess, Leslie and Mr. Burke are painting and working?

3. What does Bill ask Jess to do in Chapter 12?

4. Who is the only one at the table whose head isn’t down in Chapter 11?

5. Why is Janice Avery crying in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Jess’s sisters fighting about in Chapter 8?

2. Why does Mr. Burke find Jess so helpful?

3. Why do Jess’s sisters accuse him of not caring about Leslie’s death?

4. What is different about the creek bed in Chapter 8?

5. How Jesse’s father is portrayed differently in Chapter 11? What does he do?

6. Why does Jess act as if everything is alright after Leslie’s death?

7. Why doesn’t Jess want to go to Terabithia alone?

8. When Jess wakes in the night in Chapter 11, what does he think has happened?

9. Why does Jess want to help Janice Avery? What does this say about his

10. Why is Jess relieved when Leslie doesn’t tell her parents about Terabithia?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What provokes Jess and Leslie to befriend Janice when they find her crying?

Essay Topic 2

What are Jess's immediate reactions to Leslie's death? How normal are they? What would happen if he did not go through them?

Essay Topic 3

What does it mean to Jess when he makes the funeral wreath in Leslie's memory? What does his experience with May Belle over the creek mean to him?

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