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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. Who cleaned the house at Dana's house?
2. What did Zippy do with the dog she got from the hippie couple?
3. What special talent, according to Zippy, did her mother have?
4. How long did Zippy's family have the dog?
5. When Zippy was taking the parcels to her brother's house, what did she hit that made her fall down?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Zippy's father prepare for camping? Why did he always have what he needed?
2. Describe the Jarvis's Christmas tree? What does it indicate about their family?
3. Why did Zippy's mother tell Zippy she believed in God because she had to?
4. What did Zippy mean when her mother rode off on her bike and Zippy thought, "It won't be long now."
5. What did Zippy's mom mean when she said usually "people aren't thinking about you at all"?
6. What did Zippy learn about her dad from her adult sister?
7. What was Zippy's memory of the drive in theater?
8. How did Zippy view cleaning and parenting?
9. Why did Zippy's mom get kicked out of Catholic school?
10. Why did Zippy's mom believe that Daniel's ESP was the "blocker" type.
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
Did Zippy's mom feel guilty about Zippy being sick as a baby? How did that manifest in her life and her raising of Zippy?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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