James and the Giant Peach TEST 1

Describe James’s life before his parents died.

• sad and lonely

• happy and cheerful

• he had no friends

• his aunts were mean to him

How did James’s parents die?

• they were hit by a car

• they fell out of a hot air balloon

• they were eaten by a snake

• they were eaten by a rhinoceros

Where did James go to live after his parents died?

• in a beautiful house by the sea

• with his horrible aunts

• in a peach with insects

• Los Angeles, California

Describe James’s life after he went to live with his aunts.

• he was lonely and sad

• he was happy and cheerful

• he had many friends

• he had many toys

Who came into the garden and spoke to James?

• a little green alien

• an old man with a large head and long nose

• an old lady with a large head and long nose

• a cricket the size of a person

What did the old man tell James the green shiny crystals in the paper bag would do?

• make him grow very tall

• make him shrink

• give their magical powers to him in some fantastic way

• make him live with his aunts

What happened when James ran home with the bag of crystals?

• he fell and dropped them on the ground

• he ate them

• they wiggled out of the bag

• he threw them in the garbage

Why couldn’t James pick the crystals up and put them back in the bag?

• Why couldn’t James pick the crystals up and put them back in the bag?

• they wiggled their way down into the ground

• they turned into a tree

• they turned to stone

Where did the magic crystals end up?

• in an old peach tree

• in James's belly

• in the ocean

• by the sea

What happened to the peach tree in the garden that never happened before?

• it fell over

• it grew a peach

• it split in two

• it gobbled up James