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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 arranges the event that is held to welcome the insects?

2. Who dumps water on the peach?

3. How do people in the city feel when they see the peach?

4. Who yells at the Cloud Men?

5. How does James describe the rainbow the Cloud Men are making?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does the Centipede yell at the Cloud Men?

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

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

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

8. Why does the Spider cry when she tells her story?

9. What causes the travelers to get panicky as they get near to the city?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does symbolism play in the story, and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

Essay Topic 2

Nature is an integral theme in this book and accounts for a great deal of the changes in plot direction. What are some of the places that nature appeared, and how did it work to alter the plot?

Essay Topic 3

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

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