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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 does Trina tell Juli and her father that is surprising?

2. Why does Juli bid on who she bids on?

3. What does Bryce confess to his mother?

4. Why is Patsy having a rough time?

5. Where do the trees on the school grounds come from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in the library between Garrett and Bryce?

2. What is wrong with Juli's chickens and what advice does she get about them?

3. About what do Rick and Lynetta fight, and what happens?

4. How does Juli now feel about Bryce?

5. What is the family's response to Patsy's announcement?

6. What happens when Juli, her father and David go for ice cream?

7. Describe the conversation between Juli and her parents about their yard?

8. What surprises Juli about something Lynetta does at dinner and her mother's response?

9. What does Juli feel when she hears about Shelly and Bryce?

10. What happens between Juli and Bryce when the Baker family arrive for dinner at the Loski household?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Characters are an important part of what makes Flipped interesting. Discuss the following:

1. Thoroughly discuss and analyze Bryce. What are his strengths? His weaknesses? How does he contribute to the plot? Is he a sympathetic character? Is he always likable? Sometimes not likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.

2. Thoroughly discuss and analyze the character of Juli. What are her strengths? Her weaknesses? How does she contribute to the plot? Is she a sympathetic character? Is she always likable? Sometimes not likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.

3. Thoroughly discuss and analyze the character of one other character of your choice. What are her/his strengths? His/er weaknesses? How does s/he contribute to the plot? Is s/he a sympathetic character? Is s/he ever likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.

Essay Topic 2

Bryce's father (in the situation with the eggs) is trying to get Bryce to be direct but he's taking the wrong approach by ridiculing him. Rick is advising his son to communicate but he has very poor communication skills himself. Discuss the following:

1. What is irony?

2. How do you think the situation of Bryce's father in this instance is ironic?

3. Discuss several other ironic situations in Flipped. Give examples to illustrate your ideas.

4. Why do you think irony is often included in a work of fiction?

5. People often confuse irony with sarcasm. What do you think is the difference between irony and sarcasm? Which is more sophisticated?

Essay Topic 3

Juli starts to bring eggs over to the Loski household partly in gratitude for Mrs. Loski's help and because of her attraction to Bryce Loski. Bryce and Garrett peek over the fence into the Loski's back yard and Bryce throws out Juli's eggs from then on because the back yard is so dirty. Discuss the following:

1. Should Bryce and Garrett have climbed the fence to look for a rooster rather than just asking Juli? Do you think this invades the Baker's privacy?

2. If the Bakers are presented throughout the book as the more psychologically healthy family, so you think having a filthy back yard would be at odds with a family that seems pretty highly functional? Why do you think the family allow their yard to become so bad?

3. What do you think Bryce should have done about the eggs at the very beginning? Were his motives good in not telling Juli they were afraid to eat the eggs? How could Bryce have not continued to accept the eggs and yet also not hurt Juli's feelings?

4. How would you have handled the situation with the eggs?

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