A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Haven Kimmel
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 138 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Haven Kimmel
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 138 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 grade was Julie's sister in when she died?

2. How much, according to Zippy, did the hoods of Chevrolet vehicles weigh?

3. What did Zippy call her most beloved blanket?

4. What did Petey's rabbit do to Zippy?

5. What kind of haircut was Zippy's favorite when she was little?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Zippy envision getting ready and walking to church?

2. How did the dog Kai protect Zippy when she was a child? What does this say about the general opinion of animals in this household?

3. How did Zippy's interviews go with her mother?

4. What was Zippy's memory of the tornado that came to her school?

5. How did Zippy get her name? Why did the nickname stick?

6. How did Zippy view the story about how Julie's parents met, married, and lost their daughter Connie?

7. What deal did Zippy and her dad reach about the pink Bible?

8. What was unavailable to buy at the drugstore in Mooreland? What is the irony of this situation?

9. Why was Zippy so emotional when Andy sang "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" at Jigger's funeral?

10. How did the population of Mooreland, Indiana, stay at about three hundred?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What did Zippy think of going to church on Sunday? How did she stall before church? What were some of her tricks? Was Zippy's opinion of church influenced by her father? How? How did her opinion change after he took her to "his" church?

Essay Topic 2

Zippy tended to exaggerate at certain times in the book. Is there a pattern to this behavior? What is it? When does Zippy exaggerate? How does Zippy exaggerate? Does it add to the story? How?

Essay Topic 3

What is the significance that Zippy did not talk till she was almost three and when she finally did, that she spoke in complete sentences? What were her first words? What is remarkable about that? How did her father react? What do you think of his reaction?

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