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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 is Fudge's advice to deal with dizziness?

2. What does Fudge do when the library doesn't have the book he wants?

3. What is Jimmy's reaction when Peter tells his made-up story?

4. Why doesn't Libby go to Bar Harbor with her family?

5. What does Grandma do to quiet everyone down?

Short Essay Questions

1. What turns Tootsie's feet blue?

2. What man-overboard system does Dad implement in case someone falls off the boat?

3. Who does Big encourage, saying "Way to go," and why?

4. What will Sheila and Fudge's roles in the wedding be?

5. How do Fudge and Mitzi lose the wedding rings?

6. What sleeping arrangements do Mom and Peter make for Jimmy Fargo?

7. What does Peter do when he gets into bed, the night after he visits the library and meets Izzy?

8. What does Sheila do when she arrives at the field for the baseball game?

9. What book does Mitzi show Fudge?

10. How does the judge arrive to the wedding?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fudge wants to be creative. Discuss creativity in the novel.

1) How does Sheila try to encourage Fudge's creativity? Is she successful? Does Fudge really have creativity?

2) How is Frank Fargo, an artist, creative? How does his creativity affect his responses to the world? What other characters are creative?

3) How does Peter try to encourage Fudge's creativity? How does Izzy encourage Fudge to be creative? What does creativity allow Fudge to do?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss family in the novel.

1) What does family mean to Peter? How does he feel about his family? How do the members of his family affect each other?

2) How is Jimmy's family different from Peter's, and how do the two boys react differently to each other's families?

3) At the end of the novel, Grandma and Buzzy Senior get married. What does this marriage mean for the extended family? What does it mean to Sheila and Peter to become family?

Essay Topic 3

Fudge-a-mania is a novel about growing up. Discuss growing up in the book.

1) How does Peter change over the course of the book? How does he change as he grows up?

2) How does Fudge represent childhood and Peter's past? What does Fudge show about childhood and being young? How does he need to change to grow up?

3) How do the adults in the novel show what it means to be an adult? What does Peter learn from adults? How do these lessons change him or help him grow up?

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