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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 color was Kia's mother?

2. What was the name of the banty hen Zippy had?

3. What divided the kitchen from the den in Zippy's house?

4. When Ruth Huff died, how many animals were in her house?

5. What was Ruth Huff's collie's name?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did it mean for Zippy to attend Julie's grandfather's funeral?

3. How did Kai check on everyone at bedtime?

4. Why did Zippy's neighbor Reed threaten to kill her dogs?

5. What did Zippy want to be when she grew up? Why are these choices unique?

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

7. By throwing the runt piglet on the pile of dead carcasses, what did Julie show Zippy that she knew?

8. Why was it important to Zippy that her sister win the Fair Queen in 1972?

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

10. When Zippy asked her sister about the child with disabilities, how did her sister handle it? How did this show maturity in her sister?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Zippy's mom's upbringing. Do you think she had a good childhood? What do you think of the story that her mother told the class about the brain tumor? What does this do to your opinion of Zippy's mother? Do you think her childhood affected her adult life? How?

Essay Topic 2

Compare Julie's not talking to Zippy's not talking? At what stages of their lives did they do this? What is significant about this comparison? What did this say about their friends? How did Zippy know what Julie was thinking?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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